An oracy framework developed in collaboration with leading oracy experts at the Education Faculty, Cambridge University, is used to provide systematic development of oracy skills through the course, alongside language and literacy.

Each unit poses a Big Question. Students develop the confidence to become critical thinkers in their second language as they investigate, analyse and reason while connecting with the topics on a deeper level in English.

Aside from oracy the course offers many other opportunities to develop communication skills: discussions around Big Questions to encourage critical thinking; activities to build fluency; and missions to practice functional language and high-frequency vocabulary.

A literacy-based approach means that students learn to read and write through exposure to a rich variety of texts, and then use those skills to learn about the world – from learning to read to reading to learn.

Using 7 creativity principles the course offers a topic-linked Creative Journal and Build Creativity activities in which students practice problem solving and self-expression through puzzles, games, and other imaginative activities which require children to demonstrate cognitive flexibility, analytical skills, imagination and curiosity.