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Writing

At St Andrew's Church of England Primary Shool, we use Ready Steady Write by Literacy Counts to provide a high-quality, inspiring writing curriculum. This comprehensive program is built around engaging, vocabulary-rich anchor texts (vehicle texts) that spark children's imaginations. It offers a clear, structured sequence for teaching writing—from immersing pupils in a story to independent final pieces—ensuring deep learning, strong talk-for-writing foundations, and consistency across all year groups.

What does the Curriculum involve?

  • Vehicle Texts: High-quality, inclusive children’s literature tied to each half-term's topic.
  • Daily Sentence Accuracy: Focused sessions on grammar, punctuation, spelling, and transcription skills.
  • Talk for Writing & Vocabulary: Oracy-led lessons to help children internalize story structures and new words before writing.
  • Incidental Writes: Shorter writing tasks (like diaries, letters, or in-role descriptions) that build up skills step-by-step.
  • Working Walls: Interactive classroom displays that track the writing journey, key vocabulary, and models.

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Our environment

In our Ready Steady Write classrooms, the learning environment is an active, visual workspace designed to support the Literacy Counts writing journey (Immerse, Analyse, Plan, Write).

Here are the key features that make up the physical and operational environment:

  • English Working Walls: A dedicated display area that adapts daily. It maps out the current writing genre, models the writing process, and shows scaffolds for children to use.
  • WAGOLL and Resource Displays: Features "What a Good One Looks Like" (WAGOLL) examples, text annotations, and the core "vehicle text" (the high-quality book driving the unit).
  • Reference Materials: Spellings, handwriting cues, phonics materials, and sentence accuracy checkers are clearly displayed on the walls and kept on tables or in books for independent access.
  • EYFS Enhancements: In Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) settings, the indoor and outdoor areas are adapted with thematic enhancements, story props, and role-play corners linked to the core texts.
  • Interactive Tools: Teachers use flipcharts, whiteboards, or digital slides daily to model sentence accuracy and shared writing right alongside the class.

Sentence Accuracy Checkers

EYFS

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3 to Year 6

 

 

  1. St. Andrew's Church of England Writing Policy
  2. St. Andrew's Church of England Long Term English Plan
  3. Year 1 Wider Reading Suggestions
  4. Year 2 Wider Reading Suggestions
  5. Year 3 Wider Reading Suggestions
  6. Year 4 Wider Reading Suggestions
  7. Year 5 Wider Reading Suggestions
  8. Year 6 Wider Reading Suggestions
  9. Ready Steady Write - Glossary of Terms

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