Get Hounslow Writing

Get Hounslow Writing is a long-term Writing for Pleasure primary project aimed at KS1 and KS2 teachers. It has been developed to meet the writing needs of schools across the borough and delivered in partnership with senior lecturers from St Mary’s University.

The project

This three-year project is aimed at growing a team of expert, engaged teachers to develop the ‘will’ to be a writer.

Five sessions of focus
  1. Teacher-writer identity and the impact this has on children as writers; free writing as a tool for generating personal stories, identities and cultural histories
  2. The power of therapeutic writing
  3. Finding your voice and communities of writers
  4. The recursive writing process and the craft of writing
  5. Feedback within the craft of writing and the reader-writer relationship; verbal feedback and conferencing
Programme design
  • To consider the value of writing to support teacher wellbeing.
  • To shift in position of being a teacher of writing, to a writing teacher.
  • To develop confidence in sharing writing and providing feedback to peers.
  • To understand how to develop a classroom community of writers.
  • To develop knowledge an understanding of the writing process, the craft of writing and how to integrate these into planning.
  • To explore and value cultural writing experiences.

A golden nugget to take into school will be given alongside scholarly literature and Padlet tasks.

If you have any questions, please contact project leader – Nikola Standing – n.standing@hounsloweducationpartnership.co.uk

What our members say

Develop your A Level Teaching – “A much appreciated forum to apply pedagogy to a subject specific domain, with such rich professional talk after the keynotes in the Economics breakout session.”

Ofsted Inspection Training – "Four days well spent! Supporting the development of our school under the guidance of a skilled trainer with a wealth of experience across the primary range was invaluable."

Primary Subject Networks – "The content in the sessions covers all aspects of high quality practice in Maths and it makes me reflective on my practice in class and how I lead and help develop other teachers."

Contact us

The success of the Hounslow Education Partnership depends, in part, on good communication so please do get in touch to give us your feedback or about anything else you would like to discuss.

Email: info@hounsloweducationpartnership.co.uk

Our member schools