Whole School Oracy Toolkit (EYFS-Year 6)
This ready-to-use Whole School Oracy Toolkit gives primary schools one clear, consistent approach to teaching and assessing speaking and listening across the whole curriculum.
Whether you’re an oracy lead building a school-wide strategy, a subject leader looking for consistency, or a class teacher who wants practical tools for tomorrow’s lesson, everything is here in one document.
What’s inside
Oracy progression map (EYFS to UKS2). A clear journey through four stages: Say it, Explain it, Develop it, Evaluate it. Each stage has its key skills and core sentence stems.
Subject-specific sentence stems for 14 areas of the curriculum. Stems are pitched for each phase in English, Maths, Science, Geography, History, RE, PSHE/SMSC, Guided Reading, PE, Music, Art and Design, DT and Computing.
Oracy assessment tool. Phase-by-phase descriptors across the four oracy strands (Physical, Linguistic, Cognitive, and Social & Emotional), with a four-point scale from Emerging to Mastery.
Classroom strategies. Practical ideas organised into before, during and after speaking, including silent thinking, talk partners, consensus circles, hot seating, debate, Diamond Nine, peer feedback and rehearsal and redelivery.
Perfect for
Oracy leads, subject leaders, SLT, class teachers, ECTs and trainee teachers in primary schools.
What you’ll receive
Format: Microsoft Word document (.docx)
Length: 13 pages, A4
Editable: Fully customisable, so you can adapt the sentence stems, tables and wording to suit your school.





