The Curriculum at St Paul’s will help learners:
- Reflect upon the importance of spoken language development across the whole curriculum
- Use spoken language to develop reading and writing
- Develp quality and variety of language through speaking and listening
- Develop vocabulary and grammar alongside an understanding for reading and writing
- Continue to develop confidence and competence in spoken language and listening
- Explain their understanding of books and other reading
- Build secure foundations by using discussion to probe and remedy their misconceptions
- Develop and use conventions for discussion and debate
- Adopt, create and sustain a range of roles and respond appropriately to others in role
The curriculum in spoken language ensures that all learners:
- Listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers
- Ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge
- Use relevant strategies to build their vocabulary
- Articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions
- Give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes, including for expressing feelings
- Maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments
- Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas
- Speak audibly and fluently with an increasing command of Standard English
- Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates
- Gain, maintain and monitor the interest of the listener(s)
- Consider and evaluate different viewpoints, attending to and building on the contributions of others
- Select and use appropriate registers for effective communication.
To develop these characteristics they will explore the following key concepts:
- Listen carefully and understand: This concept involves understanding how to engage with what others are saying.
- Develop a wide and interesting vocabulary: This concept involves building a rich, sophisticated vocabulary with which to express oneself.
- Speak with clarity: This concept involves understanding that an audience needs to understand what is being said.
- Tell stories with structure: This concept involves understanding how to keep an audience engaged through structured speech.
- Hold conversations and debates: This concept involves understanding how to engage with others.