We continue to work with teachers, school leaders, and policymakers to make the ambition of ‘We Need to Talk’ a reality for this generation of children and young people
and we encourage everyone to read it in full here 📕👇

oracyeducationcommission.co.uk/oec-report

🚀 Our special ten year anniversary Impact Report, launched yesterday, looking back at the changes we've made, schools we've worked with and lives we've touched over that time.

View it here 👇
voice21.org/ten-years-of...

We were also reminded of YouGov polling funded by the @britishacademy.bsky.social @profarlenehh.bsky.social and commissioned on behalf of the @oracycommission.bsky.social

We heard from Justine Andrew about why oracy skills are essential for employees to succeed at KPMG; Ellie Bristow about the @literacy-trust.bsky.social work on oracy; and @realgeoffbarton.bsky.social, who discussed the findings and recommendations of the @oracycommission.bsky.social.

Together they will reflect on the work of @oracycommission.bsky.social and explore the next steps needed to drive a systemic shift in access to high-quality oracy education for all children and young people.

🎫 Buy your ticket for the 2025 Speaking Summit here👇

speakingsummit.voice21.org/home

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.

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.

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:

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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/5UwEJKk...

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: