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Transform Teaching and Learning Through Talk

In my 16 years of teaching I have never had the urge to explore oracy in detail because I didn’t really see why teaching speaking skills was necessary. Amy Gaunt and Alice Stott’s manifesto for teaching speaking skills has changed all that. People wrongly assume that children pick up oracy as they go along, but […]

Reviews

‘Inadequate’ rating for school given £1.8 million by sponsor

An academy in Preston was rated inadequate and criticised for its “embryonic” curriculum plans – despite receiving £1.8 million from its multi-millionaire sponsor to focus on computing and digital technology. Ofsted rated Fulwood Academy inadequate across the board after an inspection in February criticised its “unacceptable standard” of education, ineffective leadership and “extremely poor behaviour”. […]

News

Emma Hardy, MP for Hull West and Hessle

Emma Hardy, MP for Hull West and Hessle Emma Hardy may be a relative newbie in Parliament, but she’s a bit of a trendsetter. Last May she launched the all-party parliamentary group on oracy. By January Nick Gibb, the schools minister, was announcing that educational traditionalists should claim oracy for themselves. “He’s going to be […]

Features

Beccy Earnshaw, director, Voice 21

Oracy hit it big on the education agenda earlier this year when Nick Gibb unexpectedly dropped it into a conference speech, causing pundits to speculate whether it might replace phonics as the new darling of the schools minister. As director of the oracy charity Voice 21, Beccy Earnshaw has seen the power of such pronouncements […]

Features

Oracy is more than a tool for teaching knowledge

If we want a cohesive society, we must make sure that oracy’s power for bringing people together is not sidelined, says Kate Bowen-Viner When I was 18, I helped to facilitate debating sessions in a juvenile detention centre for boys. By listening, I learned about injustices and heartbreaks that they had suffered, as well as […]

Opinion

Gibb calls for more attention on ‘oracy’ in knowledge-rich curriculum

The schools minister wants oracy to receive more attention from schools with knowledge-rich curricula, alongside the more traditional “three Rs”. Nick Gibb said that “while there has been great public attention” on reading, writing and arithmetic, “little attention has been paid to the important role of oracy”. Speaking to the Parents and Teachers for Excellence […]

News

Hannah Wilson’s top blogs of the week 8 Oct 2018

As this is my inaugural review of the week’s blogs I am going to focus on new voices. We held our 4th #WomenEd Unconference this weekend and challenged our community to be #10%braver. We already have several who have risen to the challenge, and I would like to do shout outs for their first blogs! […]

Reviews

Books for teachers and school leaders – summer 2018

Summer 2018 may have seen the driest skies since 1976, but in the world of edu publishing we’ve had such a deluge of books that we haven’t been able to keep up. Here’s a summer reading selection of books that Schools Week hasn’t reviewed, but are definitely worth checking out. For more recommendations, check out […]

Reviews

How to close the vocabulary gap in the classroom

Building children’s vocabularies opens doors to harder, more rewarding curriculums and lifelong learning, writes Alex Quigley, but it needs careful focus We know that talk is a well-established solution for developing children’s vocabulary. The daily lives of the “word rich” are characterised by lots of talk around the dinner table, alongside debate and discussion in […]

Opinion