F2-Year 6 Oracy Showcase

Throughout this half term, children across all year groups have been learning about what human rights are and why we have them. Put simply, we now know that human rights are rights that everyone has, just for being human.

Each year group chose a human right to focus on and then put together an oracy based performance linked to their chosen right.

F2 have been reading Sharing a Shell by Julia Donaldson. In the story the animals discover that their lives are better when they work together. They linked this to the right of “Everyone has the right to a safe place to live”.

Year 1 created poems about jobs and how we all have the right to have a job. They looked at different jobs and the children discussed what they might want to be when they grow up.

Year 2 created a poem called “If I were in charge of the World”. This was linked this to the human right of “everyone has the right to leisure and play”. They thought about all the things
they could get rid of, so that everyone could have more time for the things they enjoy doing.

Year 3 worked together to create a poem all about children’s human rights. They were fortunate enough to perform their poem at a recent Y3/4 Wirral Schools Poetry Festival at
Park Primary School where they came 2nd place out of 7 schools. They even incorporated their drumming skills into their performance.

Year 4 also worked together to understand and explain how we have the right to think and voice our opinions freely. They worked in small groups to create short drama performance to show different examples of how people can think and voice their opinions freely.

Year 5’s focus has been on the right to an education. They began by looking at three verse poems and annotated patterns within them and how the verses varied between each one.
From here, they wrote a first draft of their own poems before editing and refining them to create a final piece, all the time reflecting on the meaning of their human right.

In Year 6, they focused on the right to seek asylum. They wanted their speeches to be emotive and thought provoking, so started by researching statistics and facts about asylum
seekers across the globe. They then began writing speeches to inform people about the horrific conditions some refugees and asylum seekers are facing in our current climate. After
watching some famous speeches, such as Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream speech, they practised presenting their speeches to engage and inform an audience.

All year groups worked hard looking at the different strands of oracy: physical, cognitive, linguistic and social and emotional, and used these to enhance their performances.

A big well done to everyone who took part, and congratulations to those children who got to the final of our oracy showcase and performed at Holy Apostles and and Martyr's Parish Church. It was a pleasure to see all of the children perform for their grown ups and I think everyone would agree that the standards of oracy were high. 

Thank you to Holy Apostles and and Martyr's Parish Church for hosting our oracy showcase, and to all the staff that made the event possible. 

Please take some time to watch the performances and have a look at the photographs below.