Writing
You can make anything by writing.
- C.S. Lewis
You can make anything by writing.
- C.S. Lewis
At Clapgate, writing is at the heart of our curriculum and is taught as a purposeful, engaging, and progressive skill. Our approach to writing is fully aligned with the new writing framework, ensuring that pupils develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence required to communicate effectively across a range of contexts and audiences.
We aim to create confident, articulate writers who can plan, draft, revise, and edit their work with increasing independence. Writing is taught through high-quality texts, rich vocabulary, and meaningful opportunities to write across the curriculum. Grammar, punctuation, and spelling are taught explicitly and applied within real writing contexts, enabling pupils to understand how language choices impact meaning.
Our writing curriculum is carefully sequenced to ensure progression from early mark-making and sentence construction to sustained, coherent, and well-structured pieces of writing. Pupils are supported to develop transcriptional fluency alongside compositional skills, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and creativity.
Through high expectations, inclusive practice, and a strong focus on oracy, Clapgate empowers all pupils to see themselves as writers and to take pride in their written work.
As C.S. Lewis said, “You can make anything by writing.” Our aim is to ensure that our pupils leave Clapgate at the end of Y6 with writing as a tool with which they can make anything.
Please see below for the links to our different policies in Writing.
| Writing Policies & Documents | Download |
| Clapgate Writing Policy 24-26 | Download |
| Handwriting Policy 23-25 | Download |
Please see the document below, which clearly outlines our approach to teaching writing at Clapgate.
Writing at Clapgate – An Overview of Our Approach
Please see some examples of our medium term plans across school. As we respond to the needs of our pupils and their interests, the medium terms are adapted each half term.
Year 4
MTP Autumn 2 Year 4 Varjak Paw
Year 6
MTP Spring 1 Year 6 Jekyll and Hyde
Here you will find our skills progression documents for writing.
At the beginning of every year, children in years 1-6 will have a sole focus on punctuation and grammar. We use the Grammarsaurus Place Value of Punctuation and Grammar (PVPG) framework, a teaching tool designed to enhance students’ understanding and application of punctuation and grammar through a systematic approach. This approach enables us to identify key focus areas to address learning gaps efficiently while building a whole-school strategy for grammar progression. The PVPG approach includes engaging methods such as songs, rhymes, and creative exercises to make grammar concepts accessible and memorable for students.
Please click on the button below to find out more information about Early Years Literacy at Clapgate.
To support the transition from Early Years to Key Stage One, we have adopted ‘The Curious Quests‘ as our approach for teaching writing to years 1 and 2. This approach builds on ‘Drawing Club’ by giving opportunities for children to learn the mechanics of writing through explicit vocabulary teaching, giving children a purpose for writing, igniting their imagination and supporting the development of writing through small group work with the teacher. The children will also have independent access to carefully resourced continuous provision. Through this approach, we aim to create children who are creative and excited about writing, while being able to apply the relevant skills and knowledge so that they are competent writers too.
Clapgate Primary School
10 Cranmore Drive
Belle Isle
Leeds
LS10 4AW
Headteacher: Miss Taylor
Deputy Headteacher: Miss Procter
SENDCO: Mrs Lawton
Office: Mrs Austin,
Miss Johnson,
Mrs Belt and Miss Stamp
Chair of Governors: Mr Bache
Tel: 0113 271 6700
Email: clapgate@clapgateprimaryschool.org
