Oracy
Oracy Lead: Miss L. Weaver
Oracy Champions: Miss A. Askew (KS1) Mr L. Wong (KS2)
Our Oracy curriculum is underpinned by the Oracy Framework created by Voice 21. The Oracy framework uses four vital strands; physical, linguistic, cognitive and social and emotional.
Through a high quality Oracy education, students learn through talk and learn to talk. The use of carefully planned, modelled and scaffolded talk in the classroom heightens subject knowledge and understanding for our learners.
Discussion Guidelines
Discussion Guidelines are used to support high quality talk in the classroom whether during whole class dialogue, or in smaller groups. They help to create a safe, open space to engage in classroom talk; they are not a set of behaviour rules but instead focus on the oracy skills needed to engage in meaningful discussion.
Listening Wheel
We use listening wheels within our classrooms to support with effective speaking and active listening, leading to high quality talk. Our Listening Wheel isolates the specific listening skills our children need, including a link to the corresponding strand of the Oracy Framework.
Sentence stems
Our learners are encouraged to speak in full, coherent sentences when sharing their ideas and using spoken language. We have created a bank of differentiated sentence stems which our learners have access to in their classrooms and are carefully used in teacher’s planning. Please feel free to use these with your children at home.
