Oracy day


On Friday the 28th of February, the Florence academy had a very special day dedicated to our new school wide focus oracy. Oracy is defined as “the ability to express oneself fluently and grammatically in speech”, and to kick this initiative off, Neptune spent the entire day doing speech based activities and games. We played Oracy games like drawing a picture back to back with someone else, who is describing what you need to draw, Articulate, Would you Rather and doing totally spoken lessons. In maths we discussed different problems and in science talked about Spring. Finally we created our very own set of “discussion guidelines” as a class, which we will make sure to stick to whenever we talk to each other during learning and during play. 

 

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