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If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King Jr
Why?
Why?
Writing is a foundational skill that impacts a child’s ability to learn, communicate, think critically, and express themselves throughout their lives. It’s not just about forming letters; it’s about creating thoughts, structuring ideas, and sharing their unique voice with the world. Hollywood’s book-based approach is crucial for our children’s development, fostering empathy, broadening their understanding of the world, and embedding all of the skills needed to be a successful writer. By doing so, we are ensuring that we are equipping children with the tools for them to achieve their dreams and aspirations.
What?
What?
A book-based planning sequence which covers all Primary English curriculum requirements by teaching through a text.
Pupils are exposed to high quality, diverse texts written by significant authors.
A cohesive sequence to make learning logical and rooted in strong content.
Teachers who have strong subject knowledge to foster engagement, coverage and outcomes.
Work books which follow the school Presentation Policy and demonstrate progress of core writing, reading and handwriting skills
At Hollywood Primary School, we teach writing by following the Literacy Tree. Literacy Tree is a complete, thematic approach to the teaching of primary English that places children’s literature at its core.
At all ages, we have adopted an approach to writing that is based on children immersing themselves in a book, and discovering the world the author has created, creating strong levels of engagement with the themes of the book, before encouraging creativity and inspiring them to write.
How does it work?
Literacy Tree is an award-winning platform which has designed a curriculum which immerses children in a literary world, therefore creating strong levels of engagement to provide meaningful and authentic contexts for primary English. Children become critical readers and acquire an authorial style as they encounter a wide-range of significant authors and a variety of diverse fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
As a whole-school approach, children explore at least 100 literary texts and experience over 75 unique significant authors as they move through the school. It provides complete coverage of all National Comprehension, literary language and spelling and grammar are taught through the context of the book and these skills are then applied rigorously in a variety of short and extended writing opportunities. All plans lead to purposeful application within a wide variety of written outcomes.
At our school, the Literacy Tree texts are mapped out to ensure progression and National Curriculum coverage across all year groups. You can find examples of our wide range of texts within our Curriculum Maps.
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