Louise St John explains how Victoria Road Primary School is using iLanguages and its links to the Talk for Writing approach to enhance the children’s ability to communicate in French and Spanish.
Teaching science at Selby using Talk for Writing
Tom Wrigglesworth, Year 6 teacher at Selby Community Primary School, explains how the Talk for Writing approach can enhance learning in science and develop vocabulary across the curriculum.
St Matthew’s CE Primary School, Birmingham
Having been awarded an MBE for Services to Education, Headteacher Paulette Osborne reflects on how Talk for Writing helped transform St Matthew’s CE Primary School, Nechells, Birmingham from a disaster into a shining example.
Bevendean Hearing Support Facility Project
Ali Davis writes about a TfW project at Bevendean Hearing Support Facility: “I have always taught in a very interactive way, igniting imagination and desire to write. Talk for Writing has given a new, innovative structure to this teaching method”.
Talk for Writing at secondary level – Thomas Becket Catholic School
Gemma Wade, Assistant Principal and Director of Teaching and Learning, writes about how Talk for Writing helped move Thomas Becket Catholic School, Northampton, from special measures to 80% good or better for teaching and learning in just one year.
Talk for Writing saves the day in Thailand!
A Foundation Stage teacher working at Penn Wood in Slough employed Talk for Writing methods when called upon to unexpectedly teach English to children living in a Thai village. By the end of the session they all understood the plot of The Gingerbread Man and were able to use the English words.
Outstanding evidence of the writing process at East Hunsbury
Liz Martin, project leader at East Hunsbury Primary Schol: “the format of units in our books, which illustrates the Talk for Writing process clearly, show the progress…but they also showed the strength of self-editing; an area clearly highlighted in the new curriculum…which fits perfectly with the TfW strategy”.
Raising expectations at Selby Community Primary
Ian Clennan, headteacher of Selby Community Primary School, explains how the Talk for Writing approach rescued writing from the doldrums in his school and has the potential to transform writing: “we have learned many things; the most important being that we had made things too easy for the children for far too long”.
The role of project teams – Aylesbury Aspire Project
In 2014, Talk for Writing trainers Julia Strong and Maria Richards were approached by the Aspire group of schools in Aylesbury to train the staff of 6 primary schools plus some secondary colleagues. The key aspect of this training was the role of the project teams in leading the project within their schools.