Mr Young, Mrs Duffy, Mrs Tominey and Miss Cameron spent the day in Glasgow on 26th May at a ‘Talk for Writing’ training event, led by the inspirational Pie Corbett.

Cathedral Primary is committed to using the latest and best approaches/resources and ‘Talk for Writing’ most definitely falls into this category. The approach supports children to imitate the language they need for a particular type of writing orally, explore the features of high-quality model texts and then use all of this rich learning to write their own version. The focus is on short bursts of quality daily writing rather than the traditional weekly ‘taught writing’ lesson.

‘Talk for Writing’ will be introduced and gradually rolled out from August. We’re confident it will not only reinvigorate and strengthen the teaching of writing in Cathedral Primary but also raise pupils’ attainment in this area.