Lyn Dawes

Jun 18, 2024 | sec-ed.co.uk | Lyn Dawes |Neil Mercer

The skills of speaking and listening (oracy for short) might seem to come naturally to young people. When they first arrive at school, we expect them to be ready to speak and listen. But how well can each child speak and listen? And by the time they reach secondary school, what oracy skills have they acquired in their young lives? What differences are there among them? Students are never the same for any set of skills – and a new class of year 7s might arrive with very different “oracy profiles”.