"Prime7 worked with Dr Jim Rogers to deliver an oracy project across the academic year. The key focus of this has been to make the ‘implicit, explicit’ and to work with teachers to raise teacher and pupil awareness of oracy. The impact of this has been significant in helping teachers to make pedagogical choices that support pupils’ development of their oracy skills. For example, partner talk can be used to deepen children’s understanding from each other and build on one another’s responses. We have introduced ‘Talk Rules’ across the schools in the trust and this promotes quality interaction between pupil and teacher as well as pupil to pupil. There are so many elements to oracy that we just ‘do’ but that could be so much better when focused on and taught."