Exploring writing beyond the classroom

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Everybody writes

• Exploring writing beyond the classroom

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What is Everybody Writes?

• Everybody writes provides an opportunity for
  teachers and children to get excited about
  writing
• Most Everybody Writes projects feature
• A series of writing activities
• A one off celebration of writing
• A change to the physical environment

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Key ingredients to success

• Finding ways to take writing beyond the classroom
• Providing children with exciting stimuli for
  writing based on their experiences and interest
• Establishing real audiences for childrens
  writing
• Writing across the curriculum

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Example of a project completed
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Why involve Norbury?

• Projects have been trialled in Hampshire and
  London and Phil Beswick and the Stockport team
  are keen for Stockport to become involved
• Stockport keen to initially involve schools that
  dont always have first opportunity to be
  involved in such projects

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Where are we up to?

• Rob Bonner expressed an interest in our
  involvement
• Andy and I have attended a course to introduce
  the project and began to think about how we could
  become involved
• We have completed a project proposal to begin to
  shape our project at Norbury

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What will our project involve?

• A celebration day
• of our achievements at Norbury Hall with each
  year group focusing on a different element/area
  of achievement

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How will we achieve this?

• Year group activities may include
• Celebrating our sporting achievements by the
  children playing a football match against the
  parents and then writing a sports report
• Celebrating the people in our school painting
  pictures and creating character profiles
• A celebration of the school grounds designing
  an orienteering course where the clues lead to
  words which ultimately make a sentence,
  developing a writing area on the infant
  playground

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• Whole school ideas
• Before school providing an opportunity for
  children with their parents to come and write
  their favourite/most memorable activity at
  Norbury on the playground in chalk
• Teachers to wear t-shirts that the children can
  write their favourite thing about being in their
  year group on
• Parents asked to write their fondest memories of
  attending Norbury to be displayed in the hall at
  the end of the day with photographs

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• End Product/Celebration
• Whole school community to be involved
• Work from the day to be displayed in the hall at
  the end of the day for parents to look at
• What will the legacy be? Newshounds, produce a
  book of the days memories, use of website

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What do we want to achieve tonight?

• Year groups to decide what their focus will be
  how will the children be involved through
  writing?
• What each year group could provide for a display
  in the hall at the end of the day for parents and
  children to look at.
• When will it take place?