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8 Oct 2024
We need to talk about oracy—what it is, why it matters, and why it matters now, in particular.
We are proud to share the final report from The Oracy Education Commission, including our findings and recommendations.
We need to talk👇
bit.ly/OEC-report
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5 Nov 2025
Just home from talking to leaders in the Hillingdon Learning Partnership about (roll of drums, please) #oracy (of course). And what a day to do so! Huge thanks to everyone who supported our @oracycommission in making a renewed case for oracy education ... assets.publishing.service.go…
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10 Sep 2025
The #oracy momentum continues …
10 Sep 2025
Good to see that in its new framework @Ofstednews recognises #oracy as one of the foundations of learning ...
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23 Aug 2025
Talking about #oracy …
Dr Andrew Rogoyski @PeopleCentredAI: “Our assumption that you can tell a student’s mastery of a subject by asking them to write an essay is being fundamentally challenged. This means vivas, or discussions, about examined topics.” theguardian.com/education/20…
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28 May 2025
As Professor Neil Mercer @OracyCambridge says:
“I think oracy is still not properly understood. I don’t think policymakers always recognise what is involved and why it matters …” tes.com/magazine/analysis/ge…
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Oracy Education Commission retweeted
26 Apr 2025
💬 'The arts must be brought back from the curricular margins, and the EBacc measure that consigned them there needs to be scrapped'
@RealGeoffBarton
buff.ly/N4oXUqU
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3 Apr 2025
As part of our series of ‘Commission Conversation’ podcasts, last year @RealGeoffBarton talked to @olidebotton - today confirmed as new expert adviser on education & skills to the PM - about the value of #oracy, curriculum reform, and social justice: open.spotify.com/episode/3um…
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28 Mar 2025
The #Oracy Conversation continues ...
Recorded in an echoey corridor at this week's @voice21oracy Speaking Summit, here's @RealGeoffBarton’s conversation with Tim Oates, Alison Peacock, Baz Ramaiah and Beccy Earnshaw …
open.spotify.com/episode/3IH…
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10 Feb 2025
As we discussed within the Commission, there’s an urgency to increasing #oracy education - helping all young people to listen actively & critically, to disagree agreeably, and to engage in democracy …
6 Feb 2025
Great to hear the Leader of the House (@LucyMPowell) confirm that Labour will deliver votes at 16 later this year ❤️
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Oracy Education Commission retweeted
Very much looking forward to being on this panel and sharing thoughts with the other contributors about whether/how oracy should be assessed, something I talked a bit about in my @oracycommission conversation with @RealGeoffBarton
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Oracy Education Commission retweeted
I’m happy to be able to fully agree on all of this! If you don’t know about it @oracycommission did a whole range of podcasts recently on Oracy, published a pamphlet & great report. @voice21oracy is a valuable source of ideas, as is @OracyCambridge.
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Oracy Education Commission retweeted
9 Jan 2025
Recap: why an #Oracy Commission in 2024 ... and where next for oracy in 2025?
8 Jan 2025
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 1/8
oracyeducationcommission.co.…
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8 Jan 2025
But, in truth, if we’ve learnt anything over recent years, it’s that great practice in classrooms can’t be mandated from Whitehall. Instead, it’s now over to us - the teaching profession - to make it happen. Let us know your #oracy priorities, as we move from talk to action. 8/8
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8 Jan 2025
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 7/8
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8 Jan 2025
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: oracyeducationcommission.co.… 6/8
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8 Jan 2025
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: open.spotify.com/show/5UwEJK…
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8 Jan 2025
So in April 2024, we established our independent Commission on the Future of Oracy Education in England, initiated and supported by the charity, Voice 21. This is its wide-ranging and diverse group of Commissioners:
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8 Jan 2025
Also … last year, as Leader of the Opposition, Keir Starmer signalled that #oracy would be a key part of the Labour Party’s future ‘Opportunity Mission’ … labour.org.uk/updates/press-…
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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:
education-uk.org/documents/b…
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8 Jan 2025
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 1/8
oracyeducationcommission.co.…
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29 Dec 2024
Tune in to @LBC at 9.20 to hear @RealGeoffBarton talking about why oracy should be the fourth 'R'.
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