Geoff Barton
@RealGeoffBarton
Then: English teacher, headteacher, & General Secretary of ASCL.
Now: Books, food, Suffolk skies, Shakespeare, pics of border terrier Molly B and ... oracy!
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'Underneath every song she sang, there was a feeling of melancholy': Karen Carpenter's 'We've Only Just Begun' explored in BBC Radio 4's amazing #SoulMusic .
Oh, and Kate Paradine - I blame you for getting me hooked on these amazing podcasts. #LifeEnhancing . buff.ly/3JyeQKh
Today I was privileged to be appointed to @theRSC board and watched, in Skegness, Shakespeare weave his magic with Year 4 pupils. But oracy is everywhere. ICYMI: Yesterday I talked to David Thomas Axiom Maths about oracy & mathematics:
buff.ly/4d6Gn38 #Oracy4Learning
As a linguistics graduate and maths publisher, I loved listening to this. Oracy is fundamental to mathematics. ‘There is no giant answer book floating in the sky’, mathematics is about convincing others of your arguments Voice 21 Oracy Lydia Davison Louise Pennington FCCT (She/Her) Will Power
One of our goals is to help young people become more articulate mathematicians. It's been great to see the #OracyCommission share in this goal, and to discuss the role of oracy in maths.
Our #OracyCommission conversations continue: how oracy is inextricably linked to success in Maths: my conversation today with David Thomas Axiom Maths buff.ly/4d6Gn38
'Mr Blue Sky, please tell us why
You had to hide away for so long
Where did we go wrong?'
Thanks so much to Voice 21 Oracy's Kate Paradine for introducing me to this uplifting, emotional celebration of an amazing song via BBC Radio 4's #SoulMusic :
buff.ly/3xEKJ12 #HeyMrDJ
“At 46, I have lived far longer than most of the humans in the 300,000-year history of our species. So have you, probably. And if the book of my life is shorter than many people’s, it doesn’t make it any less of a good read”: extraordinary, from Simon Boas jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2024/02/1…
The view from here: an amazingly entertaining and silly lunch with my great friends and colleagues, ASCL’s Evelyn Forde MBE, John Camp OBE and Manny Botwe. Thanks to everyone at The Lighthouse and Aldeburgh Bookshop for making my final ASCL farewell afternoon so special.