We want the children at St Paul's to see themselves as writers - writers who understand how language can be used to communicate effectively, and who have the skills and confidence to make their voice heard. 

Our writing curriculum is built around high-quality children's literature. From EYFS to Year 6, we follow the Literacy Tree curriculum, using carefully selected books as the starting point for rich learning experiences. These texts provide children with inspiring contexts for developing vocabulary, exploring ideas, discussing characters and themes, and discovering the choices that writers make.

We take a mastery approach to the foundations of writing, explicitly and systematically developing children's skills in handwriting, spelling and sentence construction. Through regular teaching, modelling, practice and feedback, we want these skills to become increasingly automatic, allowing children to devote more of their working memory to generating, organising and communicating their ideas.

Our Literacy Tree curriculum provides a clear sequence through which children learn to write for different purposes and audiences.

We believe that children write best when they have something meaningful to say and a clear reason to say it.

Our Literacy Tree units provide opportunities for children to write for a range of purposes and audiences. Children might write to explain, inform, persuade, instruct, describe or entertain. They may write in role as a character, respond critically to a text, compare ideas or create their own imaginative writing.

Children are explicitly taught the process of writing. Teachers model how writers plan, compose, revise and edit their work, making the thinking involved in writing visible to children.

Through discussion, drama and oral rehearsal, children develop and refine their ideas before writing them down. They explore vocabulary and sentence structures from the texts they are studying and learn how writers make deliberate choices to create meaning and effect.

Children are encouraged to revise and edit their writing, understanding that good writing develops through reflection and improvement rather than being produced perfectly on the first attempt.