Pathways to Write – Primary School Writing Programme

‘The planning already seems to be having an impact in our school after one term. The children are much clearer in what they need to include in their writing and I love the way the planning returns to teaching points to consolidate learning. The books are really engaging too and allow for lots of links with reading skills.’

Pathways is a thoroughly well-planned approach to teaching writing. It also covers inference and deduction as well as harvesting effective new vocabulary from quality texts that engage and enthuse all the children. I was particularly impressed that some very hard to reach boys were keen to write. I was initially sceptical that a picture book would provide the challenge and depth that we needed to achieve mastery. I needn’t have been!

Our teachers and children love it and the impact on our children's writing is already evident. We can see much more evidence of regular writing at length. The children are really engaged and because of the cross-curricular links, the vocabulary is noticeably improved.

The suite of resources we use from The Literacy Company has transformed the delivery of our English Curriculum. We know they have been written by experts in the field who are passionate about exposing children to really good picture books and about helping schools to implement a mastery curriculum for all children. The standard of our writing was noted by Ofsted in February 2020, as was the well mapped out and well sequenced curriculum.

'We have adopted the Mastery in Writing, Pathways to Write approach, and the results have been phenomenal. The response from staff, children and inspectors has been overwhelmingly positive; a recent pupil survey showed that children's attitudes to writing have improved greatly. Children adore using the recommended quality texts as a stimulus and the quantity and quality of writing in books has improved significantly. I could not recommend the Literacy Company highly enough.’
 

'We love it because it is brilliant and makes a difference to our children!!!'

'In our recent Ofsted visit it was recognised that our curriculum was coherently planned and well sequenced. Pathways to Write has been fantastic – it has been the cornerstone of our curriculum planning. The texts have been engaging, the children love and respond well to them. The planning materials have supported staff in the teaching and delivery of mastery skills. The impact upon children’s attitudes towards writing and success has been phenomenal.
I cannot recommend enough Pathways to Write and the superb team at the Literacy Company.'

The ‘Pathways to Write’ planning has provided us with a strong focus on the progression of skills within our writing. We have seen a strong rise in both staff confidence and pupil engagement through exciting texts this year. We highly recommend using these units.

The work of leaders and teachers to put in place new approaches to the teaching of writing has been particularly effective. Staff have welcomed these approaches and pupils are making stronger progress in writing in Key stage 1 and Key stage 2 as a result. Current higher-attaining pupils in key stage 1 are making stronger progress than before in writing. During the inspection, when writing about toys from the past, pupils in Year 2 used their knowledge of grammar to produce work of a high standard.