Many of you will be aware either from your children talking at home, or talk in celebration assembly, that we are focusing on improving children’s writing this year at Nettlestone.
Last October Nettlestone teachers joined with teachers from the Ryde Cluster of schools for a training day on improving standards in writing. All the primary and middle schools in the cluster have adopted the same approach to teaching writing and have set up thorough assessment systems to measure the progress that each child is making. One of the aims of this initiative is to make children aware of what they need to do to improve their writing. We believe that it is important for children to be taught the skills of writing in a systematic way and to understand what they need to do to improve their writing.
We work with children in 4 main areas.
Collectively the four areas are known to the children as VCOP (vocabulary, connectives, openers and punctuation). Look around your child’s classroom and you will see VCOP on display.