Oracy plays a key role in teaching and learning. The children at Longmoor Primary school develop the confidence and skills to listen and talk effectively by valuing different views and engaging in meaningful conversations. They communicate with others positively in all forms and articulate reasoned ideas. In our school’s community, our aim is to promote all forms of communication and use all the available opportunities to encourage children to interact and learn through talk.

Oracy underpins everything we do and not laid on top. It will develop overtime and we need to see oracy as the golden thread that runs through every lesson. Purposeful talk is used to drive forward learning, through talk in the classroom, which has been planned, designed, modelled, scaffolded and structured to enable all children to develop the skills needed to talk effectively and with confidence. The deliberate, explicit and systematic teaching of oracy across phases and throughout the curriculum will support children to make progress in the four strands of oracy. We want every child at Longmoor Primary School to find their voice. Oracy develops children’s confidence, fluency and capability to learn. By providing a high quality oracy education, we can empower children, regardless of their background, to find their voice for success in school and in life.  Effective communication skills are needed for children to succeed in later life. There are two core elements to oracy:

1. Learning through talk – quality of talk in the classroom

2. Learning to talk – explicit teaching of skills

At the heart of good oracy is the dialogic classroom. A classroom rich in talk, in which questions are planned, peer conversations are modelled and scaffolded and the teacher uses talk skilfully to develop thinking.