Teach Together English - Non-Fiction Masterclass with Green Wrythe Primary

Wimbledon High School have partnered with Green Wrythe Primary School to develop English language skills of Year 5 students who have experienced a lapse in their education due to the Covid lockdowns. 

Aims

To develop sentence structures beyond using simple sentences and conjunctions. Students will practise including complex sentences, embedded clauses, interesting connectives, and overall produce more varied and mature structures within their writing. 

To embed more ambitious vocabulary.

To understand the different styles needed for different forms, audiences and purposes, and how to apply them in their own writing. 

To improve their confidence and take risks in writing rather than slipping into a comfort zone of familiar writing. 

Background

Due to the lockdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic, students need to continue to practise Year 4 level grammar, spelling and punctuation. Students will need to secure their understanding of these foundations of English language before developing a more formal and sophisticated style. 

Resources

One member of Wimbledon High teaching staff accompany the 10 Wimbledon High students to Green Wrythe Primary to give the students 1:2 support. The 10 Wimbledon High students will focus on the grammatical foundations of the English language. 

Previous resources used by the school include Grammarsaurus and Purple Mesh. 

Impact

The impact on the partner schools is the quality of the students spelling, grammar, punctuation and ambitious vocabulary in their writing. Assessments that will show evidence of this are 2 writing outcomes in the Autumn term. Writing task outcomes: Persuasive Letter and Explanation Newspaper Report.

Impact on WHS Students and teachers: to follow, internally devised questionnaires. 

Pupil Involvement

20 Year 5 SEND Students work to develop language skills in non-fiction alongside 10 Wimbledon High students for 1:2 support. 

Frequency

Teach Together English is a 15 week project with 1 hour sessions per week.