St George's CE Primary School
Writing
TALK FOR WRITING AT ST GEORGE'S
St. George’s C of E Primary School is a Talk for Writing school. This means we follow the Talk for Writing programme created by Pie Corbett to teach Literacy throughout the school.
The inspiration for this choice of Literacy scheme came from a desire to develop engagement and achievement in writing throughout the school to help our pupils make the best start to their future lives. As the introduction to the national curriculum says: ‘Fluency in the English language is an essential foundation for success in all subjects.’ We love Talk For Writing's clear, creative and active approach to inspires our students. The Talk for Writing framework suits our needs perfectly as it creates a collaborative and consistent delivery of Literacy lessons throughout school. This shared method is rich in vocabulary and stories, which has enabled our students to flourish.
Following in-depth training, we have embedded the Talk for Writing method into our daily teaching. We have found the teaching style is perfect for our students as they benefit from the strong principles of the scheme.
Talk for Writing lessons feature talk and discussion at their heart. This boosts the self-esteem of our students, who all benefit from their personal ideas and opinions being shared each day. They are encouraged to express themselves through vocabulary study, grammar games and collaborative writing activities. Informal talk gives our students the chance to experiment and build their vocabulary and grammar knowledge in an informal and active way.
Please see the following PowerPoint Presentation for an overview of the teaching process. Please contact the Literacy coordinator, Fiona Hall, for any further information.
Talk for writing inspiration!
Poetry
To support poetry writing throughout the school, we have a poetry scheme that we follow with poems to learn, genres to write and poetry collections to read. We also love celebrating poetry for the week around National Poetry Day. This year the theme is 'Wonder' and takes us outside to consider the natural world through poetry. 
Writing Together at Christmas 2026
At St George's we love to have a collaborative writing experience at Christmas time. Last Christmas, we came together in our mixed age colour groups to have a fun writing for pleasure day. We came dressed in pyjamas for the Polar Express. The day began with the book in the hall, then we travelled throughout the school writing for different purposes. We wrote instructions for hot chocolate, applied to be a new elf for Santa, wrote letters to Santa to share the kindness of a friend and wrote acrostic poems. Everyone had a fabulous day and achieved a lot of writing!
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