Let's Talk: Vision & Overview

LET'S TALK: SPEAKING & LISTENING AT MAYFIELD

Let's Talk Across The Curriculum

Ok, So let's be honest. We believe that for our children the time spent in the earlier phases of a learning project need to lean very heavily towards speaking and listening skills within a very practical learning format where possible. This is often wrapped up within our Time For Learning belief (session lengths matching the aim for the session/s and the approach of the session). This also involves Revisit And Repeat. Speaking and listening has confidence as an underlying driver. Learner's will not share an idea or a thought if they don't believe they can do it or don't know enough to do it. So becoming hugely familiar with content and expectation is vital.

This, above, is the core of Let's Talk. Trying to encourage our teaching team to be brave and approach stages in projects like this rather than being dominated by silent, written responses in a traditional format is always an ongoing process. We learn constantly about what works, what doesn't work and what will work given time and repetition.

Is speaking and listening a way of adapting learning? Well, yes and no. It is vital to all learners, almost all of the time. No matter what their starting point or situation or subject. However, it is a form of adaptation for our learners at Mayfield, as we feel we lean into this more considering our starting point need and barriers to accessing learning, demonstrating understanding and crucially developing confidence. Hence, we have gone further and use this more prominently and with deeper thought than maybe many other schools may need to.

Click the link to our: ADAPTING A CURRICULUM page.

Let's Talk has a huge role to play in the earlier stages of a project (as we have outlined above) but its role is constant. Here are some of the key ways in which this belief is applied through learning at Mayfield.