Gloucester RoadOracy
Through a high quality oracy education, our children learn through talk and to talk. This is when they develop and deepen their subject knowledge and understanding through talk in the classroom, which has been planned, designed, modelled, scaffolded and structured to enable them to learn the skills needed to talk effectively.
At Gloucester Road Primary School, we believe that oracy is the golden thread that weaves together all teaching and learning across the curriculum. Oracy enables children to express their thoughts, feelings, understanding and ideas fluently. It also helps them to clarify their thinking and to understand new concepts. As such, talk is essential to children’s thinking and learning and to their productive engagement in classroom life. We believe spoken language to be fundamental to the achievement of our children, removing barriers to learning and helping to engage all of our learners.
We believe:
- Oracy is the capacity to use speech to express our thoughts and communicate with others as outlined in the four strands of the Oracy Framework.
- Teaching improves Oracy and Oracy improves teaching and learning.
- Effective Oracy teaching and learning is purposeful, scaffolded and structured to deepen understanding and develop critical thinking
- Children and young people should become agile communicators who learn to navigate the expectations for Oracy in different contexts through the provision of a wide and varied curriculum
- Oracy is the responsibility of every teacher and the entitlement of every child.
Oracy Progression of Skills and Outcomes