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.

This pathway contains:

  • 1 online course day: Building Curricula
  • 1 In-school curriculum consultation day
  • 1 In-school curriculum design workshop day
  • A curriculum planning toolkit

By the end of this pathway, you will notice your students’ confidence 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.”

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