Actions (what we will do) | What we have done so far | Outcomes (what we expect to happen) | What has happened so far |
Analysis of data: · Use the national standards/literacy progressions to identify where our children are and where they should be · Make templates for marking writing samples against national standards · asTTle · Exemplars · Writing samples · Moderation | · e.tap chart shows we have very few above · Templates for assessing, moderating have been produced. Exemplars are used rather than asTTle · term 1 samples were moderated at a term 1 staff meeting · The first meeting next term will be around the development of the templates for assessment of writing samples against National Standards. | Teaching will be informed by data. | · Samples were moderated in term 1 |
Walk throughs by senior staff · Opportunities to walk through each other’s classrooms · Host meetings in different rooms | Walk through notes and class programmes were discussed with Chicky or Graeme afterwards. · Chicky and Graeme are to meet with all teachers to discuss writing data and what the teachers are planning to do to raise literacy standards in their class. | Strengths and weakness of teachers will identified and PD will be targeted to areas of most need. Feedback will be provided to help teachers improve their practice. | |
Resources: - Models of authors writing/other students’ writing (journals of young person’s writing) - Print rich classroom environment - Family words/group words (brother, sister, mother etc) (when, what, why) (day, month, year) etc - Writing exemplars | · Joy from the Literacy Team has created a resource with exemplars of writing, over a range of genres by a range of nNZ authors, and will provide staff with a copy. The Literacy Team will ‘trial’ this resource in their classrooms and provide feedback to the team about how they used it and the effectiveness of it. · Tia has emailed a list of links to websites which you may be interested in for continuing to create a print rich environment. | Walkthroughs will show that teachers and pupils will know what good writing / levelled writing looks like. Children will be more likely to follow a model. | |
PD Following walkthroughs, PD will be sourced to target areas, skills etc where management feel it is needed. Teachers will be able to access PD lo lift areas of interest or need when available. Management will attempt to bring in “experts” where a need is identified. | · Term 2 staff meeting will be held on the PM big books on writing · Term 2 staff meeting sharing literacy team members attempts to use exemplars as models to improve the impact of writing. | PD will be targeted at teachers and areas identified as in need of improvement. Walkthroughs will identify improved pedagogy and enhanced class programmes. | |
Topics of interest: - Relevant topic – brainstorm interests in classroom, children’s activities and experiences and list them - Provide experiences for children to write about | · Term overviews discussed at staff meeting end of term 1 · First week | Evidence says this will lift levels | |
Talk: - Talk about words, alternative words - Create opportunities for children to talk - Foster quality language - Speak in a full sentence – extend the sentence - Encourage questioning, open questions - Small discussion groups/answer a question etc then report back | | |
Specific teaching of writing: - Components of a piece of writing e.g hook, structure, introduction, body, conclusion, paragraphs, sentences, surface and deeper features, feeling, emotion, audience interest etc | | · |
National standards: - Analyse the national standards expectations and identify the steps to reach those standards - Have national standards blown up and displayed in class to refer to | | OTJs will reflect the writing progressions and be consistent across the school | |
Organise a hui with our families to share writing goals, national standards and literacy progressions | | The community will be able to better interpret the school wide and individual reports | |
Cover different text formats such as poetry, recounts etc | · Term 2 staff meeting will be held on the PM big books on writing · Term 2 staff meeting sharing literacy team members attempts to use exemplars as models to improve the impact of writing. | | |
