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This morning The Guardian has thrown its weight behind the campaign for oracy education.

This is an important moment for the oracy movement.

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Today's Guardian reporting 60 signatories, including @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social, @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social, and two former education secretaries, calling for Keir Starmer to honour his pledge to embed oracy in the curriculum.

Curriculum Review: Is oracy nowhere or everywhere? The Curriculum & Assessment Review is expected to include a focus on #oracy & yet there was not one mention of it in the interim report, but @moorghen.bsky.social @voice21oracy.bsky.social is not worried... buff.ly/kfbrb0z #teachers #edusky

The 2025 SLA #conference theme is Breaking Barriers and we are excited to hear from @moorghen.bsky.social who will be breaking the barrier of silence in the #library! 🤫 Amanda will explore the unique opportunity for talk offered by #schoollibraries and #librarians. @voice21oracy.bsky.social

Thanks to @edupolicyinst.bsky.social and @hachettelearning.bsky.social for hosting at this critical time and inviting us to join the collaboration across the sector that is needed - taking oracy seriously, and tackling the barriers to an oracy education being the entitlement of every child.

For so many young people, oracy offers them the language to be part of a joyful, curious intellectual community. It offers a way to be heard, and to hear others in turn. These relationships - to peers, to adults, and to learning - have never mattered more.

Oracy isn’t an island - the question of how it connects with other areas of expertise in a school is crucial. How do Speech and Language Therapists, subject leads, pastoral teams and all the other experts in the school work together to provide a coherent oracy education for every child?

Voices from across the sector discussed excellent oracy education being delivered by so many schools and the barriers that prevent this from being a universal picture. How can government, exam boards and other actors in the space help, not hinder?

Repping @voice21oracy.bsky.social at the EPI/Hachette Roundtable on Oracy today. The evidence base for oracy is clear, but it's also clear that delivering an oracy education is a complex, long term project for a school, with teachers’ professional judgment sitting at the centre.

“The oracy skills we use, teach and value in the science classroom differ to those used, taught and valued in the history classroom.”

Voice 21's @moorghen.bsky.social for ‘SecEd best practice guide to teaching oracy in schools’👇

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