The overall vision is to inspire a love of writing by fostering curiosity, creativity and an enthusiasm for language. Through the use of imaginative tasks, drama and a wide range of genres, we nurture creative writers who can write effectively, with purpose and for diverse audiences.
Our curriculum links with Camms' overarching values of love, humanity and aspiration in order to inspire a love of learning, perseverance and sense of working together. By developing writing skills with children at Camms we hope to raise aspirations for future careers and improve the future learning opportunities for every child.
The School Development Plan and the Writing Curriculum places qualitative learning ahead of quantitative learning. This keen focus ensures knowledge and skills are embedded, retrievable and form the bedrock of every learner's writing journey throughout their time at Camms and beyond.
Inspire (Intent): Inspire a love for writing by fostering curiosity, creativity and enthusiasm for vocabulary and language.
Creative (Implementation): Creative writing through imaginative drama and task using a diverse genres of texts and stories.
Writers (Impact): Writers who communicate effectively, with purpose and for a wide range of audiences
In Early Years we inspire every child to find their voice as a writer. We nurture a love of communication, encourage children to express their thoughts, feelings, and experiences with confidence, and empower them to become compassionate, creative, and ambitious writers who believe in their potential to shape the world around them.
In Nursery, children learn the basic skills of writing through Squiggle While you Wiggle, a programme that uses dance and movement that help children to develop the fine motor control needed for writing. This is complemented by tracing activities and lots of opportunities to mark making with different materials in the provision.
In Reception, children continue to build on their fine motor control using Dough Disco and other movement activities before learning the basic formation of letters. Children will move onto using Drawing Club to talk about their story plans before learning the basic skills of simple sentence writing.
In KS1, children continue to use Drawing Club to support their story and non-fiction writing, alongside the icons for The Write Stuff and Shape Coding to further support sentence structure writing. Children continue to build on their fine motor control using Dough Disco and other movement activities, alongside the handwriting scheme used in school called Achieving Excellence in Handwriting.
In KS2, children move on from Drawing Club to The Write Stuff which uses plot points and visual icons to support sentence stacking writing and writing more longer and complex pieces. Children still access Achieving Excellence in Handwriting with a focus on joining up letters from Year 3.