Oracy
At Tranmere Park Primary School, the children are given many opportunities to extend and develop their Oracy skills. Through a well planned curriculum, the children are explicitly taught key Oracy skills and these are developed in a variety of ways. Through presentations, performance poetry, role play and paired/group discussions, the
children are given purposeful experiences in which to communicate effectively, listen with understanding and be enthusiastic learners.
In addition to the requirements of the National Curriculum, we understand that the education of our pupils cannot simply be restricted to the teaching of academic subjects. Our school wishes to offer a range of diverse and engaging enrichment activities to engage ALL pupils with their learning.
Some of these activities include:
-Class assemblies
-Parent drop-ins (where children are given the opportunity to share their work with their parents)
-Christmas performances
-Performance assemblies
-Y6 End of Year Productions
-School Councils
-School Trips/Visitors/Residential visits
-Family bag in EYFS/KS1 (a structured show and tell session
Class Assemblies
Throughout the academic year, each class has the opportunity to showcase their learning to the school community through a class assembly. Through this, children learn to present in front of an audience and also have the opportunity to be creative; performing songs, PE and drama routines.
School Productions
Throughout the academic year, the children are given many opportunities to perform in front of an audience. Some examples of these are the Christmas productions and Year 6 end of year performance.
Performance Assemblies
We know how very talented our children are and many of them have passions/strengths that they pursue both in and out of school. Some children are talented musicians, song writers, dancers and gymnasts...the list goes on!
To celebrate our children's talents, we have performance assemblies where the children can perform in front of our school community. We are always so impressed with the array of talent shown and it is always a highlight in the Tranmere calendar!
School Council
At the beginning of each school year, the children have the opportunity to put themselves forward as a school council representative or a well-being ambassador. The children prepare a short speech for the class and the class vote for 
the person that they feel would do a brilliant job. Each week, the children attend meetings and then feedback important messages to the class. We are so lucky to have a very active school council and well-being team. Well done everyone!
School Trips/Visits
The children are given many opportunities to extend their learning through school trips and visitors/ workshops in school. Some of our visits this year have included: a mosque visit, Bradford Industrial Museum, Eden Camp, Jorvik (Vikings) and more!
These visits offer valuable first-hand experience where children are able to ask and answer questions about their learning, enhance their vocabulary, develop their team work skills and take part in drama activities.
We also like to have lots of visitors into school. This year, Samuel Pepys visited our KS1 children to enhance their learning about 'The Great Fire of London.' The children took part in drama workshops and had the opportunity to ask questions too! Our EYFS children had a very exciting visit from the Fire Service and our KS2 pupils had a very special visit from a surgeon who demonstrated a heart disection. This was a great opportunity to bring their learning to life whilst developing their scientific vocabulary.
Other enrichment activities have included:
-Visits to another local school for an inperson author visit
-Visits from the Library Bus
-Song writing workshops with 'The Dunwells'
-Muddy Puddles Days (Outdoor learning opportunities)
Residentials
Residentials offer our children many opportunities to develop their spoken language. Team building tasks enable our children to practise their listening skills, share thoughts and opinions and build on the ideas of others. Our Y6 residential to
France, enables the children to practise their French speaking and listening; ordering ice-creams in French and holding simple conversations. All of our KS2 children have the opportunity to go on a class residential each year. These include Malham, Robin Wood (Robin Hood's Bay), Lockerbie and France.
