ORACY SPARK
More children talking. More children thinking. Every day.
Schools know oracy matters.
The challenge is making meaningful classroom talk happen consistently — without adding more planning to already-busy teachers.
Oracy Spark gives every classroom one simple, structured conversation each day.
A few minutes a day. Hundreds of opportunities to find their voice.
For schools · No card details · No commitment.
Are the same children doing most of the talking?
In every classroom, some children are ready to answer straight away.
Others need more thinking time, a little support to get started, or the confidence to join in.
Good classroom talk isn't simply about asking more questions.
It's about giving more children a way into the conversation.
Oracy doesn't need another lesson to plan
Two simple ways to use Oracy Spark
1. Ready-made weekly Sparks
Open the day’s Spark on your classroom screen. Each week, you get five fresh conversations with age-appropriate sentence stems, follow-up prompts and a weekly Talk Tactic and Talk Role to help children develop their speaking and listening skills.
2. Create your own when you need one
Teaching a particular topic or want something tailored to your class? Use the Spark Generator to create an age-appropriate discussion in seconds.
Use one, use the other, or mix the two
The weekly Sparks give you a simple daily routine, while the generator gives you flexibility when you need it. Either way, there’s no extra lesson to plan.
Fresh opportunities to talk, think and listen throughout the week.
Monday
Mindset
Growth mindset and resilience building
Tuesday
Talk
Communication and discussion skills
Wednesday
Wellbeing
Mental health and emotional literacy
Thursday
Think
Critical thinking and reflection
Friday
Feel-Good
Positivity and celebration
More Than Just a Question
Helping children become confident speakers and thoughtful listeners.
Every week, Oracy Spark introduces a Talk Tactic and a Talk Role, giving children specific communication skills to practise through their daily conversations.
🧱 Talk Tactics — How we develop ideas
Children learn to instigate, build, challenge, clarify, probe and summarise during discussions.
👂 Talk Roles — How we contribute
Children practise being listeners, encouragers, facilitators, connectors, respectful contributers and reflectors.
One weekly focus. Five daily opportunities to practise.
With pupil-friendly explanations and sentence starters built into the weekly PowerPoints, teachers can develop purposeful classroom talk without adding another lesson to their timetable.
Need a Spark for what you're teaching right now?
Create one in seconds
Choose the year group and subject, tell the Spark Generator what you'd like your children to discuss, and get an age-appropriate question, sentence stems and follow-up prompts ready to use
Available with every Oracy Spark membership
Ready-made daily oracy for your whole school, from just £99/year with our Founders offer.
Find the right Spark for your children
EYFS
Gentle, picture-led questions designed to encourage talk, curiosity and confidence in our youngest learners.
KS1
Accessible questions and simple starters that help children begin to explain their thinking.
Lower KS2
Prompts that encourage children to develop ideas and respond to others.
Upper KS2
Questions that invite pupils to explain, reflect and discuss different viewpoints.
See how a Spark helps children join the conversation
Each Spark combines an engaging question with age-appropriate sentence starters and follow-up prompts to help more children contribute.
With a weekly Talk Tactic and Talk Role woven into the activities, children also practise the skills of speaking, listening and building on others' ideas.
An example of a Lower KS2 (Years 3–4) Wellbeing Wednesday Spark, featuring our weekly Talk Tactic, BUILD, and Talk Role, LISTENER.
Small routine. Big opportunity.
Five minutes might not sound like much.
But repeated across a week, a term and a school year, those conversations add up.
More opportunities to explain an idea.
Justify an opinion.
Listen carefully.
Build on someone else's thinking.
Disagree respectfully.
Try new vocabulary.
Grow in confidence.
A few minutes a day. Hundreds of opportunities to find their voice.
Already investing in oracy?
Great
Oracy Spark isn’t designed to replace your existing approach.
It helps make it easier to put into practice every day.
Use the weekly Sparks as a ready-made classroom routine, or create your own around the curriculum with the Spark Generator.
✓ Ready to use in 2–5 minutes
✓ No additional staff training required
✓ Works alongside your existing oracy approach
You set the direction. We make daily oracy easier.
You set the direction. We make daily oracy easy.
Ready to get talking?
Whether you're a teacher, tutor, home educator, family or looking for access across your whole school, there's an Oracy Spark membership to suit you.