At Spaldwick our intent is to promote high standards of language and literacy by equipping our children with a strong command of the spoken and written language, developing their love of literature through widespread reading for enjoyment. We aim to provide children with a rich and purposeful education in English. We will ensure all children have the skills to enable them to speak and write clearly, accurately, coherently and confidently so they are able to communicate effectively.​

We aim for all children to have the skills to independently follow a writing process: to plan, write, edit, and evaluate their writing style to meet the needs of their intended purpose and across a wide range of different genres. In order to do this, children have an understanding of the context, purpose, audience and formality of their piece. In school, grammar, transcription and composition are key areas for development and skills that children continually revisit and develop. ​

In Writing and all lessons, it is important that all children are encouraged to take pride in their work and its presentation, part of which is developing fluent, legible and joined handwriting. We believe that a rich vocabulary is key to producing engaging, vivid and meaningful writing, and so children are encouraged to explore and choose specific words for effect. It is our aim for all children to be confident and competent spellers: understanding the rules and patterns so they can confidently apply them to new words and having an understanding of the relationships between words and root words.

We use Jane Considine's unit plans for our Writing lessons. These centre around a book or film clip, providing engaging inspiration for writing, whilst developing children's grammatical understanding and their awareness of vocabulary.

We use a whole-school approach to improving letter formation and handwriting. The scheme that we use is called Kinetic Letters. It is based on ensuring children have the strength in their bodies, arms, wrists, hands and fingers to prepare them for the skill of handwriting.