National Curriculum

Key Stages 3 & 4

Speaking & Listening - Knowledge, skills and understanding

Teaching should ensure that work in speaking and listening, reading and writing is integrated.

In English, during Key Stage 3 pupils develop confidence in speaking and writing for public and formal purposes. They also develop their ability to evaluate the way language is used and explore social and moral issues. Wizard’s My Stuff Workshop explores these issues and their affects on our peers, each other and ourselves.

In English, during Key Stage 4 pupils learn to use language confidently, both in their academic studies and for the world beyond school. They use and analyse complex features of language. They are keen readers who can read many kinds of text and make articulate and perceptive comments about them.

Through drama and role-play Wizard can help unlock the potential within each of us. Through storytelling pupils increase their vocabulary and find new and unusual applications for words and images.

During these key stages, 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 of purposes should include: describing, narrating, explaining, arguing, persuading, entertaining, extended contributions to talk in different contexts and group, presentations to different audiences.

Listening

The range should include listening to and watching: live talks and presentations and discussions in which pupils respond straight away.

Group discussion and interaction

The range of purposes should include: exploring, hypothesising, debating, analysing, take different roles in groups [for example, roles in organising or leading discussion, supporting others, enabling focused talk] .

Drama activities

The range should include: improvisation and working in role, devising, scripting and performing in plays, discussing and reviewing their own and others' performances.