In September 2023, Trust primaries met for a full-day workshop on writing. The workshop represented a culmination of months of hard work from primary Trust writing leads and, while based on several different approaches, was led – in the main – by the Opening Doors approach to writing.

What is Opening Doors?
Bob Cox, who created the Opening Doors approach, delivered a series of webinars to primary teachers in our Trust throughout the last academic year and worked intensively with Trust writing leads to support the creation and resourcing of a Trust wide writing curriculum. Opening Doors is based on five key concepts:
» Pitch lessons beyond the level of the most advanced pupil
» Scaffold and intervene as appropriate for others
» Link quality texts from the past to the present and across the globe
» Exploit the potential of literature, including poetry, to give scope for new learning and deep knowledge acquisition as well as general knowledge
» Plan for sequencing and progression of knowledge via concepts in English

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