English

At The Kingfisher School, we aspire to develop our learners as authors by equipping them with a strong command of the spoken and written word. In our readers, we inspire a love of books through promoting reading both for pleasure and the pursuit of knowledge. It is our intention to engage pupils through quality texts, which instil a love of reading, a passion for discovery and the confidence to explore their own imagination.

Talk for Writing is used across the school to support children with their writing. For most year groups this involves 3-week units which cover a range of fiction and non-fiction texts. The long–term writing plan identifies when fiction, non-fiction and poetry is taught within each term and lists suggested activities and ideas to support teachers in the planning stages. 

During week 1, children begin by exploring and unpicking a model text, written by the teacher. This model text must include the objectives being taught in the unit. For example, expanded noun phrases. This is known as the imitation stage and by the end of this week children will be given an opportunity to rewrite the model text independently. 

In week 2, children are given opportunities to innovate the model text with the support of shared and modelled writing from the teacher before writing an independent piece of writing at the end of the three-week unit.

The text-types taught across the year can be found in the ‘Author Whole School Overview’ document.  The ‘Writing progression’ document sets out which elements are taught in the different year groups to ensure progression across year groups and phases.