23rd May 2025Writing
Writing at TDJS
At Thames Ditton Junior School, we are passionate about ensuring every child leaves our school as a confident, determined and enthusiastic writer. Writing is an essential skill to equip our pupils with in order for them to communicate, share their self-expression and develop across all areas of the curriculum. Writing makes children’s thinking and learning visible and permanent. It provides children with opportunities to explain and refine their ideas to others and themselves. Our teachers have high expectations for all the children to achieve and enjoy the art of writing and to be able to use the skills they acquire in a range of contexts. We strive to ensure all children can communicate clearly in written form and become masters of language. Our writing curriculum ensures that pupils can articulate and use different sentence structures, grammar and punctuation in their writing. The skills are taught at word level and build up until they are being used confidently within a final written outcome. Pupils are taught to proofread their work and redraft in order to correct and improve their writing.
We ensure that there is progression across all year groups and opportunities for children to develop their writing understanding. The fundamental principle is that all children can be successful writers when given high-quality instruction and meaningful support.
We believe that in order for our children to leave Thames Ditton Junior School as successful writers, they need to understand a range of texts: we are driven by a canon of culturally, historically and contextually diverse books, curated by the school, to suit the needs of our children.
