Writing

At Pinfold Street, we teach writing skills through daily English lessons. Our lessons are based around a range of texts and visual literacy.
We use Grammarsaurus lessons and resources to explicitly teach writing skills. During the autumn term for Y2-Y6, we teach a unit called ‘PVPG’ from Grammarusaurus. This is called the ‘Place Value of Punctuation and Grammar’ and ensures that children have the basic punctuation and grammar skills embedded before writing texts.
Lessons have planned opportunities for children to complete a range of pieces of writing – fiction and non-fiction.
During the writing process, children have specific editing lessons. Our editing lessons are structured in a way that enable children to follow a step-by-step guide to edit their work. Teachers model how to edit to the whole class and work with children 1 to 1 to give personalised feedback.
English toolkits are available in classrooms for children to use as necessary during the writing process. The toolkits are personalised to the children’s needs and may include speed sound charts, red words, handwriting posters, high frequency words and word banks.

In EYFS and KS1, all children are taught through the RWI scheme. Children who have not passed the phonics screening also receive RWI lessons.
In KS2, children are taught spelling three times a week.
Children in Y1-Y6 have an account for Spellingframe. Children can practise their spellings through a range of activities and games. Every word is read aloud and broken into syllables. Every word is also provided in a sentence, so that children also learn the meanings of the words. (If you need your child’s individual log in details for Spellingframe, please email info@pinfold-st.walsall.sch.uk.)