Student survey (secondary school): Oracy All Party Parliamentary Group 2019 Inquiry

How important is it to learn to speak well and practice your speaking skills at school, and why?

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* 1. Do you have the opportunity to develop your oracy skills at school - to learn how to speak well and share your views with confidence?

Yes a lot

Yes a little

No we do nothing

Not sure

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* 2. What activities at school let you to practice your speaking and listening skills? (tick as many as relevant)

Giving presentations to the class

Class debates

Having a conversation and discussing a topic in small groups

Putting your hand up to share your thoughts

Extra-curricular debating club

Something else

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* 3. What do you enjoy most about lessons where you get to talk a lot? (tick as many that are relevant)

It makes the topic we're learning about more interesting

It makes being in class more interesting

I learn from my friends by sharing my views and hearing theirs

I like doing group work

I like sharing my ideas

I understand what we're learning about better

I prefer talking more in lessons than reading and writing

I prefer reading and writing in lessons than talking

Something else

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* 4. Have activities where you speak more in class made you feel less shy about speaking in front of other people and sharing your views?

Yes

Maybe

Don't know

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* 5. What are the most important reasons for students to develop their oracy skills at school?

To help you get better grades

For making friends and socialising

To get into university

To do well in a job interview

To do well in the workplace

To tackle disadvantage and help everyone from all backgrounds do well in life

To be an active citizen so you can speak up about your views, beliefs and challenge discrimination

Don't know

Something else

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* 6. Is there anything else you'd like to add about how much oracy practice you do at school and why it's important?

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* 7. Are you happy for your views to be attributed to you and quoted in the final parliamentary report? If yes please add your details below. If no, we will still use your responses and attribute any comments anonymously.

Name

School

Age/ school year

City/Town