Are you on a journey to develop an effective spoken language curriculum? Is oracy a key priority for your school’s development?

It’s well understood that strong speaking and listening skills are the foundation of a child's success, with direct links to their academic achievement, social growth, and emotional well-being. Despite this, oracy is often underrepresented in school curricula. In fact, Ofsted's recent English subject report, Telling the Story, highlights a significant gap: “In all schools, the curriculum for spoken language is considered in far less detail.”. The report further notes that, “Most primary schools do not have an explicit curriculum for developing spoken language.”.

We have resources to support your oracy curriculum implementation:

1. Oracy KS1 & 2 Pupil Voice Questionnaire
   This tool enables effective, efficient and consistent gathering of pupil voice from key stage one and key stage two pupils. Gaps in oracy practice can then be identified and acted upon by English Leads in school.
2. Talk Prompts for Discussion – KS2
   This document provides sentence starters to model, scaffold, and encourage purposeful speaking and listening during paired, group, and whole-class discussions for Key Stage 2 learners.
3. Oracy and Reading – KS1 Talk Prompts
   The document provides sentence starters to support dialogic reading discussions in KS1, encouraging personal response, critical thinking, and shared meaning-making.
4. Oracy and Reading – KS2 Talk Prompts
   The document provides sentence starters to support dialogic reading discussions in KS2, encouraging personal response, critical thinking, and shared meaning-making.

Upon completing the audit, we invite you to join us for our Oracy: Learning Through Talk training. We will explore how to design an engaging, creative, and progressive speaking and listening curriculum that empowers pupils not only to communicate effectively but to learn deeply through the power of talk.