MAPPLEWELL_PRIMARY_NURSERY

Writing

At Mapplewells Primary and Nursery school our aim is to help

pupils develop their ability to express their thoughts, ideas and

communication skills through written

believe in the

importance of making writing relevant to the real world and encourage the children to see themselves as

provide children with plentiful opportunities to write from our daily English lesson to Guided

Writing sessions which focus on the grammatical mechanics of writing.

However, it’s not just about the opportunities to teach English that we pride ourselves in but the focus we put

on children using the skills they have in cross curricular writing.Whether it be a science report or a diary extract in

the role of an Egyptian, writing is central to our day to day teaching.

Each half term the children get the chance to showcase their writing on our BigWrite days. The children spend the

morning engaged in talk activities and then later are asked to produce an extended piece of

foster the importance

of taking pride in your work and so BigWrite Days are always embraced with a great deal of passion.

English

Science

We believe Science at Mapplewells to be of paramount

strive to ensure the

excellent provision of learning opportunities in Science by planning a balance of practical and

theoretical lessons. This ensures that each year group builds upon previous knowledge and

understanding and can be forward thinking in ideas tomaintain and develop children’s interest

in this core subject.

Each unit in Science begins with a series of independent child-led starter activities.This is an

excellent opportunity for the children to explore and experiment with various resources, used

to supplement a specific topic area.The teacher uses this opportunity as a chance to assess the

children’s knowledge, understanding and barriers,which they then use to plan investigations and

engaging lessons.

Throughout the learning process, assessment is used to guide the direction of the lessons so that every

child has the chance to achieve their maximumand developmasterywithin

also use summative

assessments, in the formof short tests, at the beginning and at the end of the units tomeasure the children’s