At Holy Trinity and St John's we use an adapted Power of Reading complete book based approach to improving writing standards. The Power of Reading is the Centre for Literature in Primary Education's proven professional development programme, that supports our school to evolve using a high quality literacy curriculum which develops reading comprehension and writing comprehension and composition, and fosters a whole school love of reading and writing. 

Our approach to writing, puts quality children's literature at the heart of literacy learning and is built on years of research and best practice. The programme develops and raises engagement and attainment in: oral and written language; rich vocabulary; reading comprehension and the composition of writing, which meets all the requirements of the National Curriculum.

Children participate in daily English lessons with many links to other areas of the curriculum woven within the text-based and project-based learning. The books/texts are carefully chosen to suit each year group and ensure that our pupils experience a range of quality children's books as part of whole class teaching. Tried and tested teaching approaches are explored which promote engagement and attainment including the literacy environment, reading journals, role play and drama. 

A three weekly cycle ensures that pupils at Holy Trinity & St John's spend time exploring and unpicking texts, identifying features of many different writing styles and then have time to plan, rehearse draft, edit/revise and then publish their work.  This process allows our pupils time to digest literature and become their own author.

Our Eight Steps Process:

1. Immerse

2. Plan

3. Draft

4. Share

5. Evaluate

6. Revise

7. Edit

8. Publish

Pupils in years 2-6 use all eight steps of the process sequence, whilst Reception and year 1 pupils focus mainly on steps 1,2,3, 4, 6 and 7 as expectations of the pupils are based on more verbal feedback than written.