At St Albert’s, we aim to develop confident, creative, and capable writers who can communicate clearly and effectively for a range of purposes and audiences. Our approach reflects the expectations of the new Writing Framework, ensuring pupils build strong foundations in transcription (spelling and handwriting) and composition (planning, drafting, writing, and editing).
Laying the Foundations: Place Value of Punctuation and Grammar
As of September, 2025, we introduced a program developed by Grammarsaurus ‘The Place Value of Punctuation and Grammar‘ (PVPG) — an approach that focuses on the foundations of writing: grammar and punctuation. Punctuation and grammar are the place value of writing. They are the building blocks of successful writers. Without a secure grasp of them, children often struggle with sentence structure, making it much harder for them to produce cohesive stories, letters and reports that readers can understand and enjoy.
To reflect its importance, and support our children’s writing journey moving forward, the ‘Place Value of Punctuation and Grammar’ (PVPG) will be the very first unit taught in Years 2 – 6 and will be revisited regularly across the curriculum. In Year 1, PVPG will be introduced once children have a secure grasp of letter formation and phonics.
PVPG Parental Guide: PVPG-Information for Parents
Writing in English Lessons: ‘Write -It Week’
Our writing process (Year 1-Year 6) follows our ‘Read-It Week’ a week where the children have been immersed in a stimulus for writing, and involves a six-stage process as seen below in our writing journey.
Children are taught to write with accuracy, fluency, and imagination. Through high-quality model texts, explicit teaching of grammar and vocabulary, and opportunities to write across the curriculum, pupils learn to craft pieces that are both purposeful and engaging. We place a strong emphasis on revising and improving writing so that every child takes pride in their work and sees themselves as an author.
We use Talk for Writing strategies to support the teaching of writing from EYFS through to Lower Key Stage 2. Through this, children are given the opportunity to learn and internalise the language of different writing genres, and orally rehearse texts repeatedly before writing them down.