CUSP Writing

At the Crescent, we understand that writing is an essential part of the curriculum. Writing is taught through the use of high-quality texts. We’re ambitious about what children can achieve and we strive to create exciting and stimulating opportunities for all children. We aim to ensure that all children leave our school with a passion for writing and a high level of English knowledge and skills that they can apply in a variety of subjects and situations.

We follow the CUSP Curriculum for Writing. Expert subject knowledge is carefully woven into each Writing module which gives teachers the opportunity to teach and rehearse key knowledge and skills before applying this learning to meaningful extended outcomes. The careful architecture of this curriculum ensures that pupils build on prior learning and maximise purposeful curriculum connections to become writers for life. Within the CUSP curriculum, punctuation and grammar is taught both directly and discreetly with pupils receiving a daily SPaG lesson. CUSP Writing also draws on taught content from the depth study of core texts from the literature spine.