At St. Mary’s, we believe that the ability to write with confidence and accuracy is an essential life skill. We endeavour to enable all of our children to communicate effectively in their spoken language, as well as in using the printed word in a wide range of contexts. We teach this through the ‘Sentence Stacking’ approach.
Writing is a complex process which requires many skills, such as handwriting, spelling, sentence construction, grammar, punctuation and awareness of text structure and organisation. We believe that all children should leave St. Mary’s as confident, fluent writers, with an extensive vocabulary to adequately prepare them for later life.
Exciting Sentences
Throughout the school, we are using a system for teaching writing developed by the educational specialist Alan Peat. We teach children how to use particular types of sentences, which have a handy name, so that children understand what is meant whichever class they are in in the school. The sentence types are designed to help children to write exciting, sophisticated pieces of writing that use the right tone for their purpose. Some sentence types are more appropriate to non-fiction, and others, to fiction writing.
📝🗺️📚Look at these two superstars! Janiya and Olivia have both become published writers after submitting their work for the Young Writers competition! The girls were asked to write a short story about a ‘Magical Map’! Wow! Also, Olivia has now been awarded her 2,000,000 words certificate! What an amazing achievement. 📚🗺️📝 #englishstm #readingstm #year5stm #writingstm … See MoreSee Less
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Congratulations guys! What an incredible achievement 🙂 Please can we ask for your permission to use this photo in our own marketing activity? Thank you!
Congratulations girls👏🏾 Brilliantly done Olivia 😘😍👏🏾🎉
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🏆✏️CHRISTMAS WRITING COMPETITON 🏆✏️
Well done to Eseola, in Year 2, who won our Christmas writing competition. Take a look at her poem, 'What Christmas means to me.' #englishstm #writingstm … See MoreSee Less
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