The Primary School Curriculum recognises the act of writing as part of the language learning process. Writing is a skill and a craft that needs to be taught and which is learned from practice.The children are given opportunities to engage actively and collaboratively in analysing, interpreting and constructing a variety of genres.

For the month of September classes from 1st to 6th have been focusing on recount writing.

A recount is the retelling or recounting of an event or a experience. Often based on the direct experience of the writer, the purpose is to tell what happened.  Daily news telling in the classroom is  a useful precursor to this particular writing genre. Recounts though often personal, can also be factual or imaginative. Look at the work of the following classes on recount writing.

Room 8 Ms Conawy 6th Class

Room 6 Ms O’Donnell 6th Class

Room 5 Ms Mc Nulty 4th Class