Headteacher’s Welcome

Our aim at Rectory Farm Primary School is for our children to leave Y6 as accomplished writers who have a passion for creative writing and a mastery of the skills involved in the process. Our intention is for children to have gained an experience of writing for a range of different purposes and audiences.

At RFPS reading is placed at the heart of everything we do, but writing is the way in which we express ourselves in an articulate way. We intend that all children learn that writing is an essential tool in which we can engage with an audience for the purpose of entertaining, informing, persuading, and discussing.

At our school, we intend that all children receive a high-quality grammar education. Adults at our school intend to be good role-models and use the correct terminology when talking to children. The teaching of grammar is planned progressively across the school and opportunities to revisit grammar knowledge happen regularly to ensure that children embed what they have learnt.

Early Years

We aim for children to be able to:

• quickly learn how to hold their writing implement correctly in the Early Years class,
• learn how to form graphemes correctly,
• write to communicate effectively,
• orally rehearse what they intend to write,
• confidently attempt to use learnt phonemes in unfamiliar words,
• write for a range of different purposes and audiences,
• spell common misconception words correctly,
• use good grammar and punctuation in their writing,
• form all letters correctly and with automaticity using a Kinetic style,
• join so that their writing style is fluent,
• use ambitious vocabulary in their own writing.

The above aims are based on the NPAT key components for Writing seen below: