Good Practice Case Study
St
Michael’s Woolmer Green Primary School
School No: 270
Speaking and Listening Whole School Focus
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Date: |
From September
2004 |
Subject Coverage: |
Literacy,
Speaking & Listening, ICT |
Key Stages: |
Reception
KS1 &
KS2 |
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Author: |
P S Ginsberg |
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We wanted to strengthen our provision in speaking and listening in
order to also improve our writing throughout the school.
We identified significant groups of children entering our Reception
with below average speaking and listening skills.
Range of Resources & Activities Used
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Puppets
- Story sacks
- Drama resource books
- Role play areas in Pre-school, Foundation and Key Stage 1
- Drama work shops – Foundation and Key Stage 1 Baboushka, Key
Stage 2 Heracles
- Visitors – Andrew Barker, Knightsfield School for teaching of
the hearing impaired
- New digital cameras with video clip facility and Blue movie maker
camera
- Role play and drama to act out story starts for extended writing on
Fridays. Whole school.
- Literacy subject leader monitoring weekly plans with a focus on the
inclusion of speaking and listening activities.
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Heracles KS2 Drama Workshop
November 2005 |
Babushka KS1 Drama
Workshop
January 2006 |
Staff CPD
- Acting Up and Writing Down, Applecroft School
- Subject Leader training on use of Speaking and Listening tool kit.
- Reception teacher attends two sessions teacher training from speech
therapists
Evaluation
Photographic evidence of children engaged in speaking and listening
activities.
Staff Responses
- Use of talk partners embedded and useful throughout whole school and
across the curriculum–confirmed in lesson observations
- Use of drama for extended writing on Fridays has produced more lively
and imaginative work. Children’s writing has also improved in
accuracy and fluency with the benefit of the children speaking and rehearsing
what they want to write before they actually write it.
Future Plans
- World Book Day. Dress and act as a character from fiction
- Professional puppet show for whole school and puppet making workshop
to lead into speaking and listening opportunities
- Professional story teller in school for the morning 27.2.06 with follow
up drama sessions planned.
- Subject Leader to attend “Improving Children’s Writing “ course
which includes speaking and listening focus
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