Last year, lots of us were talking about #oracy. Here’s a quick retrospective: Oracy isn’t new. A useful discussion of what oracy means and why it matters to children’s learning and personal development is here, via our ‘Speaking Volumes’ papers: oracyeducationcommission.co.uk/wp-content/u... - ThreadSky

oracycommission.bsky.social • 46 days ago

Last year, lots of us were talking about #oracy. Here’s a quick retrospective:

Oracy isn’t new. A useful discussion of what oracy means and why it matters to children’s learning and personal development is here, via our ‘Speaking Volumes’ papers:

https://oracyeducationcommission.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Speaking-Volumes-OEC-v6b.pdf

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mferguson-writer.bsky.social•45 days ago

Oracy began in earnest for me with 'Bullock Revisited', 1984!

oracycommission.bsky.social•46 days ago

Revisiting #oracy in 2024 felt timely, partly because it was 50 years since the completion of the all-encompassing Bullock Report, ‘A Language for Life’, which said:

https://www.education-uk.org/documents/bullock/bullock1975.html

oracycommission.bsky.social•46 days ago

Also, as Leader of the Opposition, Sir Keir Starmer signalled that #oracy would be a key part of the Labour Party’s future ‘Opportunity Mission':

https://labour.org.uk/updates/press-releases/keir-starmer-unveils-labours-mission-to-break-down-barriers-to-opportunity-at-every-stage/

oracycommission.bsky.social•46 days ago

So in April 2024, we established our independent Commission on the Future of Oracy Education in England, initiated and supported by the charity @voice21oracy.bsky.social. This is its wide-ranging and diverse group of Commissioners:

oracycommission.bsky.social•46 days ago

Between April & October 2024, the work of the Commission was supplemented by podcasts called ‘Commission Conversations’. The idea was to explore the many dimensions of #oracy - disciplinary oracy, inclusion, storytelling and much more.

Explore here: https://open.spotify.com/show/5UwEJKkQrUT5lFjDCHLv5b

oracycommission.bsky.social•46 days ago

Then in October 2024, we launched our report, ‘We Need to Talk’. It was well received and led to (mostly) constructive debate about the implications of #oracy education. We called oracy ‘the fourth ‘R’ – as fundamental as reading, writing & arithmetic:

https://oracyeducationcommission.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/We-need-to-talk-2024.pdf

oracycommission.bsky.social•46 days ago

Now we’re talking about our recommendations at conferences, at school & trust training events, and behind the scenes with officials & policy-makers. We’ve fed into the Curriculum & Assessment Review; and will do the same with reviews of leadership & teaching standards.

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