When delivering oracy INSET in schools, teachers frequently ask us how our strategies and ideas can be communicated with parents. So for this week’s bulletin, we’ve put together Talk at Home – a set of 5 ways to get children talking more at the kitchen table. We’ve kept them short, sharp and easy to try. […]
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This week, we’re sharing another set of ideas that worked very effectively at Georgian Gardens Primary School, near Brighton. The school gave us the topic for each year group and asked us to create an oracy activity. In both Tom and Jason’s sessions, a general theme emerged of making decisions within a co-created story. We
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One of the delights of a typical day in a school is the chance to work with Reception. At that age, there are three main aims to a session – maximizing engagement, improving paired talk and getting children to give reasons for their answers. Of all the approaches we have, there’s none better than creating
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