National Curriculum

Key Stage 2

Speaking and Listening - Knowledge, skills and understanding

At Key Stage 2 pupils learn to change the way they speak and write to suit different situations, purposes and audiences. Our Story Spinning Workshop encourages children to create their own stories and gives them concrete narrative skills and the confidence to adapt their delivery.

Also during this Key Stage pupils read a range of texts and respond to different layers of meaning in them. They explore the use of language in literary and non-literary texts and learn how language works. Much of Wizard’s work uses the concept of analogy, as it proves easier to unlock the children’s thoughts feeling and emotions surrounding their environment by presenting them with a similar situation to their own, but have other characters experiencing the situation. Through analogy the children empathise, rather than emote.

During the key stage, pupils should be taught the knowledge, skills and understanding of speaking and listening through the following range of activities, contexts and purposes.

Speaking

The range should include: reading aloud, presenting to different audiences and extended speaking for different purposes.

Listening

The range should include opportunities for pupils to listen to: live talks/readings/presentations, recordings [for example, radio, television, film] and others in groups.

Group discussion and interaction

The range of purposes should include: investigating, selecting, sorting, planning, predicting, exploring, explaining, reporting and evaluating.

Drama activities

The range should include: improvisation and working in role, scripting and performing in plays and responding to performances.