Writing

At Beechcroft, we aim to produce confident writers who are able to communicate for a variety of purposes. As with our Wider Curriculum, we use CUSP as our starting point for all our writing units.  This approach gives children the opportunity to develop key skills as well as produce extended pieces of writing.  Each unit, is taught twice enabling the children to apply skills with greater independence as the year goes on. 

Please see our overview of our Writing Units for each year group for 2022-23.

We use a variety of strategies to ensure that our Lower Attainers are well supported in class and that they have the opportunity to close the gap with their peers. 

Handwriting

This year in EYFS and Year 1, we are starting to use a new Handwriting approach called Write Rules.  We have chosen this because it teaches the key skills of early writing including letter formation, fine motor and gross motor skills.  This approach links more closely to the fundamentals of the Early Years Curriculum which are then built on in Year 1.  We believe that this will give our children a stronger start with Handwriting before they move on to joined, cursive writing in Year 2.

In Years 2 -6, we continue to follow the Letter Join scheme of Handwriting.  This enables children to develop their handwriting by learning to join before developing a neat, fluent style that is needed throughout KS2.