Oracy Ambassadors

Our role is to promote speaking and listening across school and at home.

In order to become an ambassador, we had to share with our classes why we would be good at the job. Our class then votes and elects for the most suitable candidate.

The team meet once a half term, where we develop our own confidence in speaking in front of our peers and take these strategies back to the classroom.

One of our forthcoming projects is to become “Talk Detectives” and “Listening Detectives” in our phase assemblies.

Meet the Team

Report to Governors

Autumn Term 25/26

What is going well

We have started the year with classes refreshing their knowledge of Talk Targets, using the fantastic video created by the oracy ambassadors. The aim of this video is to ensure children are using these purposefully in their conversations in the classroom.

We’ve made a positive start with Oracy assemblies this year too, we have met together discussed different assembly topics that would be good debates for the future.

So far, we have debated about where animals live, screen time and dinner time routines.

We have been sharing the Mellor thought during assemblies and building our confidence to do it alone soon.

What we need to do next

Next, we would like to work on leading part of the oracy assembly and conducting some debates during the assembly. We have thought about creating some debate questions for classes, so that we could have a go in our classes at the end of the day.

Summer Term 24/25

This year, has been the second year of the Oracy pupil voice group (The Oracy Ambassadors). The ambassadors enjoy their role and have begun to take lead on key parts of the assembly, such as the Mellor thought and positive feedback. The children can now do this with confidence and are willing to stand in front of their peers.

During the summer term, children have helped to create short videos for the Listening ladders these will be shared in the classrooms at the beginning of each academic year as a ‘refresh’. There will also be the opportunity of debate club for some pupils, allowing children to discuss topics that matter to them and sharing their opinions in a fair and safe environment.

2024/25

We have taken part in one oracy assembly this year, the new Year 3 ambassadors shadowed Year 6 oracy ambassadors. They got involved and gave some feedback to the groups they worked with, at first, they were a little apprehensive but they are very excited for the next opportunity.

As Year 4, 5 and 6 ambassadors we are confident and used our lanyards. These have helped us to prompt other children about the listening ladders. Overall, we have enjoyed listening to the opinions and thoughts of other children on different subjects and we are beginning to find out more by asking questions.  Some of the team are working with Koel on a project to refresh everyone’s knowledge on the listening ladders and how to use these in classrooms.  We are also going to rehearse and deliver part of an oracy assembly and lead the Mellor thought during year group/phase assemblies.

Summer Term 23/24

What is going well

We have taken part in 3 Oracy assemblies across school over the year. Our confidence has grown from the first one in September to the last one in May. We are able to feedback to the groups about their conversations and we can feedback to the phase during the assemblies. At the end of the Year 3 / 4 assembly, we also had a go at saying the Mellor Thought with the children from the front the hall. Some of us have also felt confident in now speaking in front of our class on a regular basis due to the Oracy assemblies.

Our Oracy Ambassador lanyards arrived during the end of the Spring term. We have used these in the year 3 and 4 assembly. They have the school’s listening ladders on and we showed and verbally told the children if they needed help with their listening.

Some of the team made an Oracy bookmarks video with Koel. We have shared this with the year groups are and are awaiting feedback on if children are using them at home.

What we need to do next

We know the Mellor Thought off by heart, but we would like to practise projecting our voices so we can deliver it better in the new year

Spring Term 23/24 

This term we have taken part in both a KS1 and Lower Key Stage 2 oracy assembly. We have oracy assemblies once every term. The children sat in circles and were asked to discuss a topic e.g. road safety. We supported one or two groups each. We are developing children’s oracy by encouraging them to join in with conversations e.g. what were you thinking? etc.  We also had a clipboard with sentence stems to help us provide the children with feedback. We created a short presentation for Nik to ask her if we can buy green lanyards with our pupil voice funding so we can use them in oracy assemblies. Nik said “yes!”. We now need to decide what colour font we would like on the lanyards and we are going to add small “listening ladders” visuals to help encourage the children with their speaking and listening.

Autumn Term 23/24 

We are a new team of 12 Oracy Ambassadors from KS2. We have met as a team and have our own page on the school website, where you can meet our team and find out about the projects we are working on.  We have asked our classes for feedback on the Oracy bookmarks that went out last year.  We found that the children like to use them as book marks but need support in using the questions at home to create conversations.  We are planning to develop our confidence when speaking in front of others and will be developing an Oracy bookmark assembly in the near future to offer support.

 

Projects

Summer Term 24-25

Oracy Assemblies

Our last KS2 assembly was based on screen time, children are now confident to use their lanyards and were able to reflect on the talk they heard. Children had some good points about why screen is a positive and a negative. There were some very good respectful debates.

Oracy Listening ladders

The Oracy Ambassadors helped to create a refresher video for their peers, this video has been shared throughout the school during respect week

Summer Term 23-24

Our final KS1 Oracy assembly of the year was for National Water Week. We used our Oracy Ambassador lanyards to help children with their speaking and listening skills. We encouraged them to make eye contact and turn to the person talking. Lots of the children in KS1 had interesting ways in which they use water. They also had some good ideas on how they can save water too.

National Water Week

Spring Term 23-24

KS1 Oracy Assembly

We have taken part in another KS1 Oracy Assembly in the Spring term. It was about National Dental Month. We used listening ladder cards to help promote discussion and give feedback to the Oracy groups.

We created a short presentation for Nik to ask her if we can buy green lanyards which will help us with Oracy assemblies so children know who we are.

Nik said “yes!”

Keep a look out for the new lanyards in assemblies!

Autumn Term 23-24

Oracy Project 1

Over the Autumn term, the Oracy Ambassadors have been working on supporting our phase assemblies. They supported the KS1 assembly on Road Safety.

The KS1 sat in groups and they fed back to the children using sentence stems and our listening ladders. For example, I really liked the way that you made eye contact with the person next to you.

Oracy Ambassadors on X