At High Ash School, every child is nurtured to become an empowered, confident and independent writer who can consistently write in grammatically correct sentences. English teaching is engaging, motivating and personalised, with writing taught through a structured, skills-based approach. Each unit follows a clear sequence: children read and discuss a high-quality text, unpick a WAGOLL (‘What a good one looks like’), practise key skills through extensive teacher modelling, and then produce a final Star Write to showcase their learning.

Learning is supported through the I Am A Clever Writer appraoch, ensuring progression across the school and use of checklists to develop compositional, grammatical and transcriptional skills. Phonics strategies such as 'hold a sentence' are embedded, alongside weekly spelling lessons for KS2, following the SpellingShed scheme. Teachers build ‘working walls’ across the week with modelled examples, vocabulary, and checklists which pupils use in every lesson.

Children are encouraged to use ambitious vocabulary in both their oral and written work, and they are given purposeful opportunities to write in a range of forms for different audiences, often linked to class topics and interests.