Writing

**Successful Writers Right Across the Network**
Classrooms across the network where students and teachers are engaged in the craft of writing is the vision for our school. A community of writers focused on the exploration of the stages of writing - planning, drafting, revising, editing, publishing, exchanging, collaborating and reflecting on writing. When children write every day, as educators we have boundless opportunities to gather information and focus instruction on areas of like needs. Writing improvement has been a major focus at Courtenay Gardens Primary School and is a priority area in our School Strategic Plan. Teaching non-fiction writing in a targeted whole-school approach has resulted in the transformation of teaching, learning and children’s writing standards. Our program was inspired by the work of Douglas Reeve (the founder of the Leadership and Learning Centre in the U.S.). Our Principal attended a NAESP Conference in April 2006 in San Antonio, USA. We took on the emphasis on non-fiction writing. Now we have a laser like focus on student achievement, multiple opportunities for student success and collaborative scoring of student work. Courtenay Gardens' aim is to improve whole school data through a team approach to non-fiction writing. The results have been outstanding.

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