Teachers working together to benchmark our students’ writing

We have a regular writing task which is undertaken by our students once a month, 8 times a year. This is our WRITE IT! Program. it is designed to improve our students’ writing skills and develop consistency of judgement from stage to stage among our teachers.

The students are supported with scaffolded expectations and their field of knowledge is developed through exposure to a variety of visual stimulus pictures and discussion appropriate for each task set.

After the task is completed our teachers rank them in stages: top, middle and bottom. They are then ranked across stages.
The class teacher in consultation with colleagues then selects the best in their class.

The Best in Class is awarded a certificate and has their writing published on the School Blog for the world to see.

The students’ evaluate their own work using an adaptation of the NAPLAN rubric. Using this information they set their goals to ensure they improve their writing when they participate in the next writing task.

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