'All individuals matter' 

At Winchelsea Primary School, we strive to unlock the potential in each and every learner to become confident, talented and enthusiastic writers.

We want children to see themselves as writers and to celebrate their success. Our curriculum is built to allow children to experience a variety of writing styles and genres as well as to develop their own understanding of how to control their own writing consciously and effectively in similar ways.

Using high-quality texts and engaging stimuli, children will be able to use writing to communicate with others and express themselves. They will be able to write independently and for a range of purposes.

Children will be able to reflect upon and evaluate their writing, using editing and redrafting. Children will use vocabulary to create style and convey meaning by using what they read to enhance their own writing. 

Handwriting

At Winchelsea Primary School, we teach cursive or pre-cursive writing from Year 1 for most children, in a font designed especially for our school, but very similar to most joined fonts.

By the end of KS1, pupils should be taught to

• form lower-case letters of the correct size relative to one another
• start using some of the diagonal and horizontal strokes needed to join letters and understand which letters, when adjacent to one another, are best left un-joined
• capital letters and digits of the correct size, orientation and relationship to one another and to lower case letters
• use spacing between words that reflects the size of the letter

Pupils will revise and practise correct letter formation daily. They will be taught to write in a joined style as soon as they can form letters securely with the correct orientation.

By the end of KS2, pupils should be taught to write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed, with most letters joined.