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‘oracy’

Oracy must become as essential as literacy or numeracy

The oracy commission’s final report calls for oracy to become the ‘fourth R’ of modern education’s emancipatory missions

Opinion, Oracy Commission

Teacher training, GCSE reform and investment needed to make oracy the ‘fourth R’

Oracy Commission sets out how to embed speaking, listening and communication throughout the curriculum

News, Oracy

Home truths (and myths) about life skills in our curriculum

New international evidence shows England is an outlier in its approach to skills to the detriment of equity and social mobility

Opinion, The Knowledge

The Conversation – with Sarah Gallagher

Oracy and toothbrushing, phone bans and mental health, reading for pleasure, and the start of a headship journey

Reviews, The Conversation

‘If we put things in we have to take things out’, says curriculum review chair

Professor Becky Francis acknowledges complaints of a ‘very overstuffed curriculum’

News, Curriculum review

How can Labour ensure oracy delivers on its promise? 

New Sutton Trust research reveals variation in schools’ approaches and a lack of evidence on how best to maximise oracy’s impact

Opinion, The Knowledge

How exams survived one of their biggest tests

The Covid exams debacle led to the usual images of youngsters jumping for joy replaced with children in tears. Despite the spectacular policy failure – exams have survived. Schools Week looks at why …

Supplements, Turning the pages

Five ways to develop classroom talk in maths

New benchmarks for oracy in maths offer ways to improve confidence, engagement and attainment by embracing collective problem-solving

Opinion, Opinion: Curriculum

Should we insist on ‘Standard English’ in schools?

A recent panel discussion demonstrated a range of views on this issue – and an all-important willingness to listen from the Oracy Commission

Opinion, Oracy Commission