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.
Voice 21 Oracy Framework
Year 5 have been getting creative in their Art lessons this half term and have been working collaboratively to plan, design and create pieces of work inspired by installation art! In an ‘Art Attack’ special, here’s 5V to explain and evaluate their finished piece. 🎨 #artstm #year5stm #oracystm … See MoreSee Less
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To finish their current Maths unit of fractions, Year 5 consolidated their learning by using their Oracy skills to spot deliberate mistakes in fractions based statements and questions. After spotting the mistakes, they then had to justify their reasoning behind the misconception and explain the correct answer. #mathsstm #year5stm #oracystm … See MoreSee Less
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As part of our Mastering Number Programme, Year 1 have used numicon to identify odd and even numbers. We sorted the numicon into odd and even groups, using our oracy skills to explain our reasoning to our partner.
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Today in maths Year 3 have been using the CPA (concrete, pictoral, abstract) approach to help us with dividing 2-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers. We used known number facts to help us and the stem sentence 'If I know ____ then I know'. #mathsstm #year3stm #oracystm … See MoreSee Less
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In their latest Science lesson, Year 2 combined their Oracy and working scientifically skills by asking questions about animals and their habitats. Via a game of ‘Guess Who?’, the children asked questions about the animal card their partner had and then tried to place the animal in its correct habitat based off the clues.🐇🐠🐍🦭
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In this week’s Reading lesson, Year 5 have taken part in Readers’ Theatre! Using an extract from the Oliver Twist play script, they focused on intonation, tone, pace and characterisation. They took centre stage to then put on a show with their final performance, which left us begging for more! 🙏🏼 #readingstm #year5stm #oracystm … See MoreSee Less
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In our Mastering Number Programme session, Year 1 has been learning about composition and what makes nine . We worked with our 'Maths Mates' to explore different ways of making nine using Rekenreks, a part whole model, cubes, a ten frame , dice and even our fingers! Stem sentences helped us to organise our ideas and we spoke clearly when we shared our knowledge of making nine. #year1stm #mathsstm #oracystm … See MoreSee Less
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In our mastering number sessions year 1 have been learning about composition and what makes 9 . We worked with our maths mates to explore different ways of making 9 using rekenrek, a part whole model, cubes, a ten frame , dice and even our fingers! Stem sentences helped us to organise our ideas and we spoke clearly when we shared our knowledge of making 9 . #year1stm #mathsstm #oracystm … See MoreSee Less
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🎵💙Continuing our Music unit ‘The Blues’, the children were tasked with researching a famous and very talented blues rock guitarist called Joe Bonamassa. They researched facts about him and listened to some of his songs whilst doing so – including “If Heartaches Were Nickels”. In groups, they collated all of their information and, using their incredible oracy skills, presented their findings to the class.💙🎵 #year5stm #musicstm #oracystm … See MoreSee Less
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