📢We're looking forward to seeing you all on March 25 at The Speaking Summit📢 Today we're announcing that our Chair of Trustees, Rt. Hon. Estelle Morris, will close the event with her session, Why the time for oracy is now. Book your tickets today👇 eu1.hubs.ly/H0g0WYh0

🚨 Exciting news for teachers, leaders & policymakers! The Voice 21 Oracy Speaking Summit 2025 is coming to London on Tuesday 25 March 🎤 Want to understand what a greater emphasis on oracy means for your school or organisation? Secure your spot today👇 speakingsummit.voice21.org/home

📢 The Speaking Summit Session Announcement 📢 Is your Multi-Academy Trust looking at implementing #oracy across its schools? This one's for you. Tickets are selling fast, get yours now! 👇 eu1.hubs.ly/H0ggTHQ0

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State of Play, the interim report from the Raising the Nation Play Commission, shows that today’s children have less time and space to play than previous generations. At Voice 21 we know that time to play is time to talk. Read our thoughts below👇 eu1.hubs.ly/H0hzGXf0

“We’re from the Woody” - an amazing poetry project in my school where our Year 6s worked with local poet, Joseph Roberts, to write and perform a poem about their pride of growing up on the Woodchurch Voice 21 Oracy Matthew Patrick MP Oracy North West

Yesterday, the Curriculum and Assessment Review’s Interim Report was released – but in a baffling omission, it doesn’t mention oracy or speaking, listening and communication. Here's why this matters👇 voice21.org/voice21respond…

"[COVID lockdowns] showed us that the stuff we still fixate on…is nowhere near as important as giving young people opportunities to learn and practice how to relate to each other...to talk, to listen critically, to know how to disagree agreeably." 👇 tes.com/magazine/analy…

SecEd’s free 21-page guide to teaching oracy in schools is out: buff.ly/DD8CL5j Ideas & expertise including from: Pete Dudley Geoff Barton Amy Gaunt Yamina B Amanda Moorghen Dr Lyn Dawes🇺🇦 Kathleen McBride @Lfloyer Jessie Ricketts, moving to @rickettslara.bsky bee josephine smith

Really delighted to have contributed to this bumper supplement with two articles on what is oracy and how can we can teach it. In great company with Geoff Barton Amanda Moorghen Kathleen McBride Jessie Ricketts, moving to @rickettslara.bsky 👇

Really enjoyed leading this session today with Alice Stott - good oracy practice starts from a belief that students have something valuable and worthwhile to say. How do we create the space for them to do this in the classroom?

This is great news! Congratulations Oli de Botton 💫

As we await the final recommendations from the ongoing curriculum and assessment review, let’s re-examine oracy’s place in the current National Curriculum and consider how this could be strengthened to better serve all learners 🗣️ 🌟 See blog & 🧵below 👇 eu1.hubs.ly/H0jyNqM0

What do we actually mean when we talk about #oracy skills? And how can we #teach these in our lessons? Amy Gaunt – Voice 21 Oracy – considers the three mutually reinforcing elements of oracy & how they might be weaved into a typical lesson: buff.ly/7FjYt8I #teaching

What do we actually mean when we talk about oracy skills & education? Amy Gaunt – Voice 21 Oracy – considers the three mutually reinforcing elements of oracy education, as well as the four strands of speaking and listening skills: buff.ly/470eceE #teaching #teachers

What do we actually mean when we talk about #oracy skills? And how can we #teach these in our lessons? Amy Gaunt – Voice 21 Oracy – considers the three mutually reinforcing elements of oracy & how they might be weaved into a typical lesson buff.ly/7FjYt8I #teaching

Great to hear from Tris Osborne MP at The Great Oracy Conversation Canterbury Christ Church University about his personal commitment to oracy and why oracy needs to be front and centre in the Curriculum and Assessment Review Voice 21 Oracy

😊 Great that RCSLT 💙's signed-up to this letter and huge congrats to our Voice 21 Oracy colleagues, including Amy Gaunt, on getting such an impressive #Oracy coalition together.

🗣️ Oracy is a crucial life skill which every child should develop. We are proud to have signed Voice 21 Oracy's open letter to Keir Starmer reiterating the need to support all pupils in developing their speaking, listening and communication skills 📩 theguardian.com/education/2025…