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Oracy at Sea View

The purpose of Oracy

The national curriculum for English reflects the importance of spoken language in pupils’ development across the whole curriculum – cognitively, socially and linguistically. Spoken language underpins the development of reading and writing. The quality and variety of language that pupils hear and speak are vital for developing their vocabulary and grammar and their understanding for reading and writing. Teachers should therefore ensure the continual development of pupils’ confidence and competence in spoken language and listening skills. Pupils should develop a capacity to explain their understanding of books and other reading, and to prepare their ideas before they write. They must be assisted in making their thinking clear to themselves as well as to others, and teachers should ensure that pupils build secure foundations by using discussion to probe and remedy their misconceptions. Pupils should also be taught to understand and use the conventions for discussion and debate.

All pupils should be enabled to participate in and gain knowledge, skills and understanding associated with the artistic practice of drama. Pupils should be able to adopt, create and sustain a range of roles, responding appropriately to others in role. They should have opportunities to improvise, devise and script drama for one another and a range of audiences, as well as to rehearse, refine, share and respond thoughtfully to drama and theatre performances.

2024-2025

Nursery

Story Dough! is an immersion into the magic world of story dreaming with small groups of children. Using the medium of playdough, Story Dough! tips children into landscape of nonsense, rhyme, language, delicious vocabulary, mark making, make-believe, mathematics and story. It is unlimited in where your adventure with Story Dough! can take you. We sang our rhyme to wake the dough up, then used our expressive faces as we said the magic dough words, warming it up with our hands, before we went on our adventures...

Year 1

Year 2

During National Poetry day in year 2 we enjoyed creating our own version of 'The Terrible Ten poem' by James Carter. 

 

We wrote our own versions of the poem and then performed them in front of our peers.

Year 3

We have enjoyed creating and performing our poems for National Poetry Day

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Year 4

 

 

We had a great day exploring a range of poetry. Inspired by our class novel, "The Nowhere Emporium", composed and performed our own free verse poems.

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Year 5

As part of our Suffragette workshop at Beamish, we took part in a debate about the Suffragette movement. In groups, we discussed the key arguments for each group before debating and trying to persuade others to agree with our arguments.

2023 - 2024

Nursery

We played 'Hurrah-Boo' and talked to our friends about which things made us feel sad and which made us feel happy. We chose the appropriate faces and said "Hurrah" for the happy things and "Boo" for sad things. Some of the things that made us happy were, "making princess cupcakes with Mam", "playing with dinosaurs" and, "when Mam picks me up from school."

On Valentine's Day we drew pictures of the special people in our lives. Then we passed around the heart and told our friends what made them special... "I love my Mam, she always kisses and cuddles me", "I love my Mammy and Daddy, he's my friend", "I love Daddy, he tickles me", "I love my family because Mam makes me dinner", "I love Dad, he's my best friend", "I love Mam she gives me hugs", "I love Mam, she buys me lovely toys".

We are developing our language during pretend play in the small world, following and responding to instructions and using our story recall language with a theatre and puppets and during child initiated time in the outdoor area.

Reception

In Reception we are given lots of opportunities to share our thoughts and ideas in different ways. Children are encouraged to bring in items from home for show and tell, to come to the front of the class and be a mini teacher, and to talk to their friends about what they think.

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Year 1

Wild Debate!

Whilst reading Wild, we read to the point of the story where the little girl was taken out of the forest. We asked the children if they agreed with the men taking the girl out of the forest.

 

We then had a class debate, where the children listened carefully to each other and decided whether they were for or against the men taking the girl. The children listened carefully to their peers and responded with thoughtful responses.   

We have been reading The Rainbow Fish in our English lessons. As part of this topic, we have written in the role of different characters, including the Little Blue Fish after the Rainbow Fish had upset him.

 

We discussed vocabulary and different ways to express emotions through language.

Year 2

The Great of London!!!

 

In Year 2 we have been learning about the Great Fire of London. At the start of our topic we wanted to know more about the Great Fire of London so we became reporters and asked questions about the events we might want to research.  We worked in pairs taking turns to ask our questions to each other and shared our ideas as part of the wider class.  We then took to our research, finding out everything we could about the events that lead to the fatal fire.  Finally we explored the features of a newspaper and extended our vocabulary to include subject specific language in our reports.  Once they were ready we performed them using a green screen to transport us to the BBC newsroom!  Follow the QR links to have a look!

Year 3

We posed the big question to the children today, 'Should the man cut down the great Kapok tree?'  We listened to arguments for and against the action.  Some of the children couldn't decide. We made a conscience alley and the children who were on either side had to try and persuade the children to join them by sharing their argument for or against.

During the exploration of our quality text, Leon and the Place Between, we created scrips for the characters of the three jugglers. We enjoyed performing our scripts to the class!

Year 4

As part of our learning about Edward Tulane, we wrote thought bubbles in role as a character and recited them for your enjoyment!

Year 5

Voices from Titanic.

Inspired by the diary of Violet Jessop, "A Titanic Survivor", we wrote and performed powerful and emotive extracts in  the last moments onboard the Titanic.

 

 

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Visit from our Local MP!

Today we had an important visitor in school, our local MP, Emma Lewell-Buck. We held our very own Prime's Minister's Debate in which we discovered what life is like for an MP. We also were given the opportunity to express our pupil voice by asking a range of probing questions and taking part in debating both global and local issues. These ranged from deforestation in Brazil, the cost of living crisis, the war in the Ukraine to local issues such as the number of litter bins in South Shields and the number of homeless people living in South Shields.

These are some of the questions we asked:

What is the council doing to support the homeless living in South Shields?

What would Emma do if she was Prime Minister?

What can be done to help families during the cost of living crisis?

What does Emma think about the deforestation of the Amazonian rainforest?

Does Emma agree that there should be more litter bins in South Tyneside?

What is the council doing to stop climate change?

Does Emma think it is right to provide weapons to be used in the Ukraine war?

 

Year 6

We had a discussion in class on whether Stanley should have escaped in order to find Zero. We then took part in a conscience alley to see who would be the most convincing side. 

Attendance

  • Reception 88.34
  • Year 1 93.39
  • Year 2 94.35
  • Year 3 93.83
  • Year 4 93.91
  • Year 5 91.57
  • Year 6 92.95
  • Whole School:

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Norham Avenue North, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, NE34 7TD

Telephone: 0191 4274343

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