Our flexible and engaging classroom templates are designed specifically for KS3-5 students, and cover a range of oracy skills. With a renewed focus on oracy from Ofsted and the DfE in 2023, spoken language is one of the cornerstones of teaching and learning in the National Curriculum, and key to school improvement. Using our oracy templates, you’ll be able to provide your KS3, GCSE and A-level students with a solid foundation in communication skills that will benefit them throughout their academic and professional lives: teach students how to structure their ideas and arguments effectively and coherently encourage students to listen actively and respond positively to different points of view help students to develop their critical thinking skills build confidence in public speaking. Our templates come with clear teaching instructions and examples, making it easy for you to incorporate them into your lesson plans. Suitable for small group or whole-class activities, these oracy activities help to develop students’ language skills and their overall confidence in speaking in class. The oracy templates are customisable, so you can adapt them to suit the needs of your learners, the topics you are teaching, and your teaching context. Our templates cover a range of skills, from active listening to persuasive speaking, and can be easily adapted to suit different subjects and learning levels. Whatever your subject area or year group, you’ll find ideas for modelling effective group discussion, using different types of questions, including Socratic questions, and helping students to recognise different tones of voice through role-play activities. Whether you’re a new or experienced teacher, our downloadable whole-school oracy templates will enhance your teaching and benefit your students. These oracy skills are based on an established oracy framework and oracy-based pedagogy from Voice21 and Oracy Cambridge which focuses on four foundational oracy skills for young people: physical, linguistic, cognitive, and social and emotional. What’s included? There are 15 printable templates included in this 40-page downloadable pack, ranging from oracy starters and icebreakers to classroom activities and complete lesson ideas to develop students’ speaking skills. Introduction for teachers Oracy skills template Now you’re talking template Recognising tone templates ABCD template Taboo template ‘Speak like an expert’ template Word dice template Fortune teller templates Socratic questioning template Hexagon templates Summarising templates Think, pair, share template Debating skills templates Pick and mix oracy Oracy tracker templates About the writer Sarah Davies is a former Head of English and lead examiner, now an assistant headteacher in a MAT and an ECT (Early Career Teacher) Mentor. She’s also the author of Talking about Oracy (John Catt, 2020).

This 2023-2024 printable template pack is designed to help busy teachers to get organised for the academic year ahead. With a choice of two designs, and 19 flexible templates to download, customise and print, you’ll find a range of organisational aids in our teacher planner to support you throughout the school year and help you to manage your endless to-do list! What’s included? Download your planner, which includes: academic year and month-by-month calendars timetables daily, weekly and term plans adaptable seating plans student grouping charts student assessment records intervention group planning meeting and communication logs professional development records parents’ evening notes notes pages and more. There are nearly 50 pages of editable templates to pick and choose from, which you can adapt to suit your needs. What’s inside? Personal profile (page 3) Year at a glance (pages 4-5) About my class (pages 6-7) Student focus (pages 8-9) Student groupings (pages 10-12) Intervention group planning (page 13) Seating plan (page 14) Class timetable (page 15) Daily planner (page 16) Term planners (pages 17-22) Week overview (page 23) Communication log (pages 24-25) Meeting log (pages 26-28) Parents’ evening notes (pages 29-31) Assessment log (page 32) Assessment checklist (pages 33-34) Professional development (page 35) Notes (page 36) Month-by-month calendars (37-48)