1. MARLBOROUGH PRIMARY SCHOOL
HOW TO SUPPORT YOUR CHILD IN ACHIEVING GREATER DEPTH WRITING IN UKS2
6th June 2019
Ms Bourne and Miss Gold
UKS2 Phase Leader English Leader

2. Aims of this workshop
To achieve a stronger understanding of what ‘Greater Depth’ means
To unpick the National Curriculum to understand the expectations of Greater Depth
To have the opportunity to look at examples of writing that meets the national expected standard and those that exceed ‘greater depth’
To further understand SPaG terms

3. What is Greater Depth?

4. What is the TAF?
The TAF is an acronym for the ‘Teacher Assessment Framework’
TAFs support teachers in making statutory judgements for children at the end of their Key Stage
TAFs are available for Maths, Reading and Writing
TAFs focus on key aspects of the curriculum
The framework has a range of ‘Pupil can’ statements which guide teachers judgements

5. Expected– Year 6

6. Greater Depth – Year 6

7. Year 5 and 6
Three are three main final judgements – Working Towards, Expected or Greater Depth Secure
e.g. 6E, 6D, 6S, 6M
To judge that a pupil is working above age related expectations (GDS), the child must be incorporating ALL of the statements within their writing.

8. What is SPAG? SPAG stands for ‘Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar’
In Year 5 and 6, SPaG is embedded into all English lessons
We also teach SPAG through quick-fire sessions daily called ‘SPAG fast five’ – this covers different SPAG elements and uses questions from the SATs so that children become more familiar with the style of questioning.

9. What is SPAG?

10. SPaG for Parents

11. COMPOSITION
YEAR 6
YEAR 5

12. SENTENCE STRUCTURE
YEAR 6
YEAR 5

13. TEXT ORGANISATION
YEAR 5
YEAR 6

14. PUNCTUATION
YEAR 6
YEAR 5

15. SPELLING/HANDWRITING
YEAR 5
YEAR 6

16. Year 5 and 6 spellings
It is important that children are using a range of these spelling words within their writing so that there is evidence they know how to spell them.
In order to be Greater Depth, children must also be seen to choose higher level vocabulary than those in the spelling list.

17. Year 5 Expected vs Year 5 Greater Depth

18. Year 6 Expected vs Year 6 Greater Depth

19. Year 6 Expected vs Year 6 Greater Depth

20. Year 5 vs Year 6 – Expected

21. Year 5 vs Year 6 – Greater Depth

22. Thank you for listening
QUESTIONS
Thank you for listening