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Speaking and Listening
As soon as children start at Willington Primary School, we endeavour to develop oracy skills and widen children’s receptive and expressive vocabulary. We recognise that speaking and listening with a strong focus on vocabulary provides children with essential knowledge and skills for success in reading, writing and achievement in all other subjects.
We aim to provide our pupils with a ‘language rich’ environment and within our classrooms, we explore ambitious vocabulary in lessons and use working walls to acquire an understanding of new and unknown words. Dictionaries and Thesauruses are used from Year 2 to explore and extend knowledge of meanings, synonyms and antonyms.