Writing
Our writing curriculum is designed to provide a broad and balanced education that meets
the needs of all children. We follow the award-winning Ready Steady Write from Literacy
Counts to develop confident, independent and successful writers with high aspirations.
Our writing curriculum is research-informed and impact-proven, carefully designed to
support all children to master the foundational skills and write for a clear audience and
purpose. Through the use of high-quality, vocabulary-rich texts, we provide exciting and
meaningful reasons to write. Children are immersed in literature and taught to craft their
writing with precision, using a range of pedagogical approaches, including sentence
accuracy, modelled writing and shared writing, as well as regular opportunities for editing.
We value spoken language as a foundation for writing. Through structured talk, drama and
vocabulary exploration, children learn how to organise and express their ideas clearly
before writing them down. Our aim is for every child – regardless of need – to write fluently
and take pride in their work. We want our pupils to leave primary school as enthusiastic
writers, ready for the next stage of their education.
Stockton Wood Handwriting Policy
Stockton Wood Presentation Policy
Stockton Wood Presentation Expectations Nursery
Stockton Wood Presentation Expectations EYFS
Stockton Wood Presentation Expectations KS1
Stockton Wood Presentation Expectations Lower KS2
Stockton Wood Presentation Expectations Upper KS2
Non-negotiables at Stockton Wood
Ready Steady Write Curriculum Coverage
English – Writing Chatter
Our reception Memories !
As it is coming to the end of the year, we have been talking all about our favourite memories in reception. We all had big smiles on our faces thinking and looking at all the fun times we have had. 😃
National Literacy Event
Years 5 and 6 enjoyed a visit from a storyteller and poet. It was fantastic to see the children engaged for over an hour, listening to his wonderful tales.
Independent Writing✍️
This week we have been working on our independent writing. We have had lots of fun writing this week. We have wrote all about our creations, our amazing pictures and we have even wrote about our phonics friend Fred. We are super writers !
Year One Writing
Super proud of Year One and their publishing skills. Amazing diary entries all about Erin wanting to save Black Rock!
The Storm Whale 🐋
Reception have been enjoying our English book The Storm Whale 🐋! We have been writing lots of sentences with the help of our story friends. Today Wise Owl helped us to use capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.
All about out half term ☀️
We have done some independent writing this week! We have written all about our half term and all the fun we had. 😁
Y2 spellings
2D practised their spelling by writing the letters on each others backs! Suffix ly and ness this week. They love their Friday spelling quiz!
The Journey
The first lesson of our new English unit was all about making predictions. The children enjoyed lots of discussion as we collected our ideas, making links to between objects.
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Year 5 – Exploring and responding to clues from the text
We began our new narrative in English today by immersing ourselves into the narrative, identifying what the clues told us and forming links between the objects and images. Then we made a prediction.
Year 6- Partnership School work
6B enjoyed reading the reviews, written by children from across the world in Qatar, about their discovery narratives.
Year 2 English
We have received another top secret book! We made predictions on what we think the book will be about.
Special Delivery
Today, we had a special delivery from the with. She has assigned 4D with the task of writing a twisted ending for their favourite fairytale. We can’t wait to get started.
New books
We’ve started 2 news books in 4C. ‘The Lost Happy Endings’ by Carol Ann Duffy is our vehicle text in English and ‘The Lost thing’ by Shaun Tan is our class reader.
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Making Predictions
In English, we’ve been making predictions about our new book. We look at items, read the notes in a jar, listened to an extract and looked closely at illustrations.
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LGBTQ+ week
Today we read the story of ‘Pirate Mums’. As a class we discussed different types of families, we talked about families with 1 mum, 2 mums, a mum and a dad, 1 dad, 2 dads and how we are all different but we are still loved and cared for.
LGBT+ Awareness
As part of LGBT+ awareness week, we read a booked called ‘Introducing Teddy’. We discussed the story of gender and friendship. The children wrote letters to Tilly from Errol.
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Year 6- Should we be proud of Liverpool’s past?
6B used a range of sources from the Slave Trade (both Primary and Secondary) to decide whether or not we should be proud of Liverpool’s history and it’s link with the Triangular Trading system.
Collaboration and communication in action!
5M helped each other to improve their writing by sharing ideas and giving feedback. Some used a dictionary to check difficult spellings.
Partnership Week – USI
It was lovely to share stories and examples of pupils writing with United School International this week. 1J Stockton Wood met 1D United School International.
Analysing the text!
This morning, 5M discussed the writers knowledge, the structure and the language features of our example text in English.
Year 5 – Global partnership
5M are creating newsletters for children in Year 5 at United School International in Doha. They are sharing information about life at Stockton Wood and life in Liverpool. We can’t wait to find out about life in Qatar.
Y2 Spellings
2D have been learning the “dge” and “ge” spelling patterns by spelling them on each other’s backs and hands
Cross curricular writing!
This week, 5M have been developing their writing skills in French.
