Cubitt Town Junior School 2019/20
Building an oracy based curriculum
What problems were in your school and how did you identify them?
- The language gap and the impact on children’s access to their learning.
- Rigorous tracking and monitoring of attainment and progress.
What actions did you take?
- Whole school oracy programme - working with Voice 21
- Pre-teaching of vocabulary.
- Individualised speech and language input.
- Individualised assessment for pupils not working on KS2 curriculum.
- Personalised CPD for teachers - teaching triads where teachers learn from and support each other.
- Building a dialogic staff room - changing staff meetings so we speak about learning more.
- Developing a mental health well-being team - building on resilience skills.
- Planning a curriculum with oracy at its heart - getting children to think critically about their learning and the world around them.
- Talk for writing - across the curriculum.
- Termly timetabled meetings with SENCO and teachers to look at lower attainers and work on next steps.
What were the outcomes?
Progress data for our looked-after children is good as well as for our pupil premium children.
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