Active writing day
Playing with words on the playground wall
Active writing day
Re-naming places around the school
Active writing day
Writing tiny letters to the ants (who then wrote back)
Active writing day
Pupils get writing
Active writing day
Finding stories around the playground
Active writing day
Macaulay Church of England Primary School in Clapham, London, devoted a whole day to get all pupils out of the classroom, into the playground and actively writing.
Pupils discovered lines of verse hanging from trees, they pieced together a story told across the playground, they wrote letters to the ants and wrote enormous poems on the walls of the playground.
Pupils chased and traced language; they wrote and were written to.
Downloads
- Full case study
- Guide to planning your own Active Writing Day
- Guide to developing an outdoor Lyric Line
- Range of activities for your own Active Writing Day
Primary examples
- Reporting from the dinosaur dig
- Writing about local history
- Active writing day
- Reporting on an alien landing
Secondary examples
Writing schools
Macaulay CE Primary School’s Everybody Writes Day - Pupils and parents celebrate writing for one special day