Writing
Throughout history, mankind has striven to record information. Just as soon as we could communicate, we strove to leave our mark; cave paintings and tribal markings both served a purpose: to share information. While the method is now wildly different, the purpose is the same: we write to share information - sometimes for ourselves and sometimes for others.
Essentially, there are four main purposes to writing:
- Narration
- Description - not much writing is purely descriptive, but is essential in good narrative writing.
- Exposition - to explain or inform
- Persuasion
Just as throughout history, these are still very important today, used in all walks of life and are needed for many jobs.
Each of these elements are present in our curriculum which has been designed to cover all of the writing, grammar and spelling aspects of the 2014 National Curriculum. For each text type, the children complete an independent piece of writing which is assessed against these targets.