As Penny mentioned in a previous newsletter, we are focusing on writing in our School Improvement Plan. Have you thought about how you can support your children with writing at home? The best way to help your children is to encourage them to write more! Please do not try and make it a chore though, try to make it purposeful and fun! For example, they could: 

• help you write the shopping list for the week
• write a letter/email to a friend or family member
• write a story and publish it into a book
• write in any birthday cards throughout the year
• write in a journal or diary
• write on the computer or on your phone

Did you know there are stages of writing development and children will go through all stages until they can write fluently? It is important to let children write independently and feel success, whether they are at the stage of drawing pictures, writing scribbles on a page, or writing fluently with conventional spelling. If your children are putting pencil to paper (or finger to keyboard), then they deserve lots of praise and encouragement to keep on writing! 

Yours in Learning, 

Aleesha Rockemer

(Learning and Teaching Adviser)