At St. Mary’s, we strive to create an oracy-rich community, where we ensure that all children feel that their voices are valued and listened to. The children are taught to use their voice confidently to: reason, negotiate, present and explore ideas to support their learning across the curriculum and to prepare them for later life.
When the children returned to school after half term, we participated in an oracy day. This consisted of a range of activities in which the children could develop their oral and aural skills.
Watch below to see some of the activities we participated in.
Speaking and Listening – From Early Years to Year 6
Voice 21 Oracy Framework
Today, in our Celebration of God’s Gifts assembly, Mrs Whitfield found herself in a wonderful dilemma. She simply couldn’t choose just one child for the coveted Oracy Certificate in St Peter, because every single pupil has been sensational this week. In the end, the only solution was to give a certificate to everyone!
The use of Oracy stem sentences, confident actions and enthusiastic participation in lessons has been incredible. The children have truly blown her socks off.
Keep up the fantastic work, St Peter. We are so proud of you! 👏✨ #year6stm #oracystm … See MoreSee Less
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Our Year 1 children and parents have had a fantastic time learning together at our Art gallery workshop. The children spoke like real experts explaining the skills and techniques they had acquired in our Drawing unit. Together we explored lines, focussed on artists and went on to create their very own masterpieces inspired by Bridget Riley and Paul Klee. The children loved walking their parents around our art gallery and using their Oracy skills to discuss what they had learned.
Our parents were blown away by their children’s knowledge and confidence in Art.
We have had some lovely comments in our Family learning book which really celebrate the enjoyment and importance of families learning together.
“A wonderful workshop, the children definitely sound like Art experts… It was a really enjoyable workshop. I enjoyed spending quality time with my child. A big thank you to the amazing teachers for their continued support. A very effective workshop, very engaging. I loved seeing the Art exhibition. Thank you to all the fabulous teachers.”
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🗣️✨ Speak Like an Expert at St Mary’s! ✨🗣️
This term, our pupils took part in a ‘Speak Like an Expert’ challenge, developing their disciplinary oracy across the curriculum. We were absolutely blown away by the quality of talk, vocabulary and confidence shown by the children! 🤩
Each year group became experts in a different field:
🎨 Year 1 – Artists
🏅 Year 2 – Sportspeople
🙏 Year 3 – Theologians
🔬 Year 4 – Scientists
📜 Year 5 – Historians
➗ Year 6 – Mathematicians
Children practised the four strands of oracy:
🧠 Cognitive – organising and explaining ideas
🗣️ Linguistic – using ambitious, subject-specific vocabulary
👥 Social & Emotional – listening and responding respectfully
🎤 Physical – speaking clearly and confidently
The discussions, explanations and expert vocabulary we heard across the school were incredible. We are so proud of how confidently our pupils can now speak like experts! 🌟
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Today our Minnie Vinnies went over to visit the residents at Brookfields House to entertain them for World Book Day 📚
The children performed their rendition of George’s Marvelous Medicine, and it went down a treat – it had the audience laughing from start to finish! 😄
We were so taken aback by the kindness of the residents when they presented us with book tokens as a gesture of appreciation. It was such a thoughtful surprise and very much appreciated.
A huge thank you to everyone at Brookfields House for making us feel so welcome. We had a wonderful time and loved sharing World Book Day with you all. 💙
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🌟🎭 Oracy Superstars! 🎭🌟
A huge congratulations to Millie, Mila, Roosevelt, Alessandra, Richa, Henry and Nicholas in Year 6 for earning a coveted Oracy Sticker during our Readers’ Theatre lesson! 🏆✨
They absolutely smashed the physical strand as they brought our core text Wonder to life, reading with fantastic expression and projecting their voices with real confidence. 🎤📖 Their performance was engaging, thoughtful and a joy to watch.
We are so proud of the effort and enthusiasm they showed. Keep shining, Year 6! 🌟👏
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