Good Practice Leadership Webinars

Building Strong Foundations in Early Writing: An Evidence-Based, Process-Driven Approach

This session is led by Vickee Twort, Executive Primary Head Teacher at Ark Victoria Academy

Discover how ARK Victoria developed an evidence-based, process-driven approach to the teaching of writing.

Learn more about how they have rebalanced the curriculum to ensure pupils achieve automaticity and fluency in transcription skills from the Early Years onwards. Explore their use of dictation as an effective bridge between transcription and composition, and the sentence-level mapping that forms the foundation of their writing curriculum.

This session is ideal for schools seeking to strengthen their Early Writing provision in line with the DfE writing framework and Ofsted’s emphasis on securing strong foundational knowledge.