Keeping children engaged and learning in writing during school closures

United Learning teachers and English Advisors (Karen Tulloch and Jen Reynolds) have been developing writing sequences to support teachers. These writing sequences are written in Microsoft Sway. All teachers in United Learning have been trained brilliantly to use Sway at break-neck speed by the wonderful IT team. Using Sway ensures that our home learning is easy for teachers to embed on their school websites. Once a link to a Sway is added to the school website, pupils can click on it and then the whole day’s learning can be scrolled through and competed without the pupils needing to navigate away to another page. It is a wonderful piece of software! Added to the ease of creating writing sequences in Sway is the fact that it is very accessible and we know that pupils are learning using these sequences, sometimes accessing them from a parent’s mobile phone. In fact, we plan our sequences with the assumption that a mobile phone is the only technology a pupil will have access to; tasks