Bishops Lydeard Church School 
Writing
Our Writing Intent
At Bishops Lydeard Church School, we aim to support children to develop a love of writing whilst being able to express their thoughts and ideas clearly and creatively through the written word.
We want all our children to see themselves as authors. Therefore the teaching of writing is focused around high quality texts with opportunities to write for a purpose for all children. We teach transcription skills such as handwriting and spelling systematically and rigorously. This is to ensure these are automatic for children freeing up their focus to be on the composition of their writing. Daily writing sessions enable children to practise these skills with orally dictated sentences.
Oracy skills looking at sentence construction, vocabulary choices and the use of varied language are embedded throughout all teaching at Bishops Lydeard Church School. This is a key driver for our daily lesson planning to support children's progress in writing.
Our children have opportunities to publish their writing and to celebrate their achievements and we welcome parents/carers in to see their incredible writing frequently.
Handwriting
We follow a consistent and thorough handwriting scheme that links with our early teaching of phonics. From the foundation stage focusing on fine motor skills to discrete handwriting practise in reception and beyond, we strive to get this right for all children as they start their writing journey.
When handwriting is fluent and effortless, it frees children up to think about what they want to write instead of how to write it.
Spelling
As with handwriting, we want all children to be competent and confident spellers to enable children to focus on composition of their writing.
Progression of Skills
We strive to provide children with key transferrable writing and grammatical skills to build on each year in order to succeed as individuals.
As a school, we have created a skills progression document to support children with revisiting their prior learning, embedding new learning and have built-in opportunities to develop their cumulative knowledge and skills throughout their primary years.
Our skills progression is linked to quality texts, that are carefully chosen to teach specific skills, and throughout a teaching unit children have the opportunity to analyse the texts for features, embed their knowledge of these features through carefully chosen tasks and create their own final pieces of writing for an audience.
Our children have opportunities to publish their writing and to celebrate their achievements.