Intent

At Oak Tree Primary School, we strive to help our children develop into articulate and imaginative communicators, who are well-equipped with the skills they need to become life-long learners. We aim to ensure all of our children develop a genuine love of language and the written word, through a text-based approach. We use a wider range of divers and interesting texts, to hook the children in and engage them in their writing.

Careful links are made across the curriculum to ensure that children’s English learning is relevant and meaningful: where possible linking our reading, writing and the topic that we are covering in History and Geography. We ensure that children develop an understanding of how widely writing is used in everyday life and, therefore, how important and useful the skills are that they are learning are.

Our intentions in writing are for children to:

· Write for a purpose

· See themselves as real writers

· Take ownership of their writing

· See writing as an interesting and enjoyable process

· Acquire the ability to organise and plan their written work