"It has made me question why such a course is not compulsory for all Primary staff and teachers of English and literacy."
The WRITE Project ran throughout the school year 2014-5 working with Buckinghamshire Primary schools.
The Project's aims were to develop teachers' subject knowledge and pedagogical skills so that they could create classrooms where rigorous and precise instruction sits beside freedom, creativity and imagination in the belief that this balance is the key to children becoming confident, enthusiastic and effective communicators.
The principles and model of the programme are outlined in the Project pages and the impact on learners' progress is to be found in the Outcomes page. The real story of the project and its impact, though, is to be found in the case studies in which teachers have shared their learning, their practice and their materials.
Throughout the year they have grappled with new concepts, reevaluated their own approaches to teaching, taken risks in their classrooms and been supremely generous in sharing their successes and failures. What their modesty prevents them from recognising is that I have learned as much from them as they have from me.
The result is this substantial body of work from which I hope you will be able to take something to inform your own practice.
Lindsey Thomas
Education Excellence Adviser
August 2015
Education Excellence Adviser
August 2015
" It has become my firm belief that thinking in a vacuum destroys creativity. Even for creative people such as myself I find that I like to start with some parameters. Not least because even very creative people cannot step over boundaries if there are none!"
Participating Schools
Bedgrove Junior School, Aylesbury
Beechview School, High Wycombe
Chesham Bois C Of E Combined School, Amersham
Dorney School, Maidenhead
Hazlemere C Of E Combined School, High Wycombe
Highworth Combined School and Nursery, High Wycombe
Holmer Green Junior School, Holmer Green
King's Wood School, High Wycombe
Lane End Primary School, Lane End
Little Chalfont Primary School, Amersham
Millbrook Combined School, High Wycombe
Princes Risborough Primary and Nursery School, Princes Risborough
St Johns C of E Combined School, Princes Risborough
Steeple Claydon School, Steeple Claydon
Turnfurlong Junior School, Aylesbury
William Harding Combined School, Aylesbury
Woodside Junior School, Amersham
Beechview School, High Wycombe
Chesham Bois C Of E Combined School, Amersham
Dorney School, Maidenhead
Hazlemere C Of E Combined School, High Wycombe
Highworth Combined School and Nursery, High Wycombe
Holmer Green Junior School, Holmer Green
King's Wood School, High Wycombe
Lane End Primary School, Lane End
Little Chalfont Primary School, Amersham
Millbrook Combined School, High Wycombe
Princes Risborough Primary and Nursery School, Princes Risborough
St Johns C of E Combined School, Princes Risborough
Steeple Claydon School, Steeple Claydon
Turnfurlong Junior School, Aylesbury
William Harding Combined School, Aylesbury
Woodside Junior School, Amersham