Voice 21-Oracy
Oracy is a powerful tool for learning.
It can be defined as the ability to articulate ideas, develop understanding and engage with others through spoken language. At Alderbrook, we are committed to transforming oracy teaching and learning across the school, enabling all our children to benefit from a high quality oracy education.
Through a high quality oracy education, Children learn through talk, as well as learning how to talk. Children will have the opportunity to 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 in a variety of contexts.
The oracy framework provides an overview of the oracy skills and knowledge children should acquire during their time at school. It can help to identify strengths and areas for development, plan explicitly for talk and support reflection on talk.
In 2024 we became a Voice 21 school and began working with the UK's Oracy Education Charity Voice 21. Through the deliberate, explicit and systematic teaching of oracy across phases and throughout the curriculum we will look to support our children to make progress in the four strands of oracy outlined in the Voice 21 oracy framework.
In our first year working with Voice 21, we are excited to work on developing our classroom practice through developing oracy charters and introducing the oracy framework and talk tactics. In the coming years we will look to build on this through planning more opportunities to bring oracy into the whole curriculum and how we can implement more oracy specific strategies into school.
Here you can see the Voice 21 Oracy framework
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