We are on an exciting journey to embed oracy in classroom practice and enrich learning across the curriculum, with remarkable results. Join Oracy South, a hub for Hampshire, Portsmouth, Sussex, Surrey, and beyond, for a free open morning to discover more!
I don’t think every child needs a free breakfast. Some families could pay for their own breakfast. The money would be better spent on SEND.
Really interesting, thank you.
Would you be interested in coming along to an open day at Liphook looking at oracy? We are starting an oracy hub. It’s had the biggest impact on teaching and learning that I have seen in my career! Thank you for all of you support with Teams Tim.
We are on an exciting journey to embed oracy in classroom practice and enrich learning across the curriculum, with remarkable results. Join Oracy South, a hub for Hampshire, Portsmouth, Sussex, Surrey, and beyond, for a free open morning to discover more!
We use Number sense
It's an exciting journey and I'd like to say a huge thank you to Angela Schofield, Parkfield Primary and Cubitt Town for allowing us to see oracy in action at their schools. I'd love to connect with others about oracy. (7/7)
could really extend learning opportunities. This year we are focussing on the curriculum, learning to think and speak like a scientist, mathematician etc. (6/7)
Exploratory talk has really deepened children's understanding of the concepts being taught. We are beginning to link oracy with technology e.g. using the green screen, eventually, it would be good to use something like a catch box so that the class can talk to people virtually, this (5/7)
greater involvement of SEND and disadvantaged pupils. We are seeing an impact in their writing too. It's interesting that sometimes pupils talk and this helps their writing whereas at other times they write first and this helps their presentational talk. (4/7)
The impact of the work has been huge: children more actively listen to each other and build on each other's ideas. They talk to each other more. Pupils have become more engaged in their learning and own their learning to a greater extent. Barriers to learning have reduced e.g. (3/7)
We have adapted what we do for the age and stage of the child. We use the Cambridge oracy framework ie: focusing on cognitive, linguistic, cognitive & social and emotional aspects of oracy. (2/7)
We have been working with Voice 21 for a year now so I thought I would share our journey. We have talk guidelines in all classrooms and use talk tactics (sentence stems) to help children to: instigate talk, clarify, build on, summarise, probe and respectfully challenge. (1/7)
Our kitten, Maple, has devised a solution for work-life balance. Whenever I go to work, she lies across the keyboard!
Hi Clare,
I absolutely love your blog, so true. Thank you for posting it and introducing me to Bluesky!