By the end of their time at RDUTC, our students will have developed the necessary communication skills to enable them to succeed and progress onto exciting courses at university or onto high quality apprenticeships. The development of communication skills is extremely high priority. This is how we do it:
Verbal Communications Skills (Speaking and Listening)
Within lessons and Employer Projects, we teach students how to communicate effectively verbally in formal and informal situations, whether in pairs and groups or delivering presentations to larger audiences of up to 200 people in our Conference Centre. This includes:
Written Communications Skills
We develop students written communication skills within English lessons and across the curriculum through:
Reading Skills
In English lessons we teach students to:
Across the curriculum we promote reading through:
Reading Widely and Often
All our students are members of Hull Central Library and are encouraged to use this great facility to borrow books and periodicals as well as for independent study.
Each department also has its own Reading Week where students select texts from Subject Libraries to read in lessons. Subject Libraries include a wide range of texts which will extend their subject knowledge, provoke deeper thinking and discussion and support the development of their cultural capital.
Our Reading Widely and Often programme includes weekly Reading Widely and Often lessons for all Year 10 students delivered by English Teachers. Students read a wide range of challenging fiction and non-fiction texts and articles. The texts are selected to develop the students’ cultural capital and promote thought and discussion about Fundamental British Values, particularly encouraging them to explore and challenge their own attitudes to inclusion, equality, diversity and extremism.
In addition, students are encouraged to participate in the Arco Reading Widely and Often Award sponsored by our Chair of Governors, Richard Martin (Non-executive Director at Arco) – see Communication policy for further information.
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