Writing at Brickhill
The most fundamental goal of the National Curriculum for English is
for children to learn to communicate and engage with the world
around them confidently and effectively. Our ambition is that pupils
will learn to do so meaningfully and with purpose through the high quality structures and strong ambition in the CUSP English provision that we have adopted.
The aim of CUSP Writing is to provide teachers with the tools to
explicitly teach pupils the knowledge and competencies that they
need about the different facets of writing and the writing process. The
subject knowledge required in order to deliver the Primary curriculum
for Writing is vast. By supporting teachers with the sequencing of this
knowledge, we hope that it will create time and space for them to
invest in developing their own subject knowledge and considering
how to ensure that every lesson serves every pupil.
CUSP Writing synthesises the multiple aspects of knowledge and
competency needed to write effectively and sequences these, using
all that we know about cognitive science to ensure that pupils embed
learning into the long-term memory.
CUSP Writing is built on a Reduce and Revisit model. This means
that we have reduced the number of text types that pupils study, in
favour of revisiting a small number that we want them to truly
master. These text types have been carefully selected to ensure
balance and progression across the whole of the primary journey.
Pupils will study each text type twice in each year – Block A and
Block B. Block A is the first time that pupils will meet the text type
and its associated concepts. Block B allows pupils to reflect on what
they already know about this form of writing and build on this more
independently and more creatively, as their confidence develops.
You can view documents CUSP have produced to give further detail to the Writing curriculum we teach at Brickhill.