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Profile: T’Challa Greaves

Jess Staufenberg meets a middle leader intent on breaking the glass ceiling, if only for others It’s rare for Schools Week to feature a middle leader (our main readership base is senior leaders), but T’Challa Greaves, lead practitioner for science at Meridian High School in Croydon, is a powerful voice to listen to. In January […]

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Teaching Walk-Thrus: Five-Step Guides to Instructional Coaching

Reviewer Diana Detterick detects an unfortunate bias, but it’s not enough to stop this book becoming her go-to reference title for solving educational problems Cognitive Load Theory. Dual Code Theory. Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction. How do I connect all of these concepts, and many others, to use in my classroom? If you have ever pondered […]

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School visit: future-ready Foxfield primary

Jess Staufenberg discovers a school that’s breaking the underperformance Catch 22, going beyond the model of School 21, and could be just what we need in 2020 Walking towards Foxfield Primary School in Woolwich, south-east London, feels a bit like approaching a small, rather beautiful airport. There’s an elevated runway with a spacious playground below […]

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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 […]

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‘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”. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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