Curriculum Design

Our Curriculum Design programme of support will enable you to build an ambitious, context-driven curriculum for oracy which is embedded across different phases and subject disciplines.

Our Curriculum Design pathway contains programmes that enable you to design and implement an ambitious, context-driven curriculum for oracy which supports every student to progress in oracy during their time at school.

Students’ confidence will increase as they speak to different audiences in a range of contexts and receive high-quality, subject-specific talk across the curriculum.

Key outcomes and benefits of the Curriculum Design pathway

Oracy Champions (2 staff for primary, 3 staff for secondary) will:

Design and implement an ambitious, context-driven curriculum for oracy across different phases and subject disciplines
Plan thoughtful & memorable learning experiences supporting every child to progress in oracy
Create meaningful platforms for students to use their voice in authentic contexts both in and beyond the classroom

Colleagues across the school will:

Teach students to engage skillfully in a range of different types of talk and discover new contexts for them to develop and hone their oracy skills
Understand how to develop their students’ oracy skills over time
Plan for subject-specific oracy which deepens curricula learning

Holly Dyson

Boothroyd Primary School, West Yorkshire

“As a primary teacher to prepare students for lifelong learning oracy skills are vital… the pandemic, which I am sure lots of schools will agree with, has meant that speaking and listening gaps have become even wider…When I walked the corridors recently, I could just hear the buzz of language and quality of oracy.”