Everyone is talking about oracy. The final report of the Oracy Education Commission, published during the autumn term, recommended the introduction of oracy as the fourth R and called for it to be integrated into every curriculum subject.
Since then much has been written and discussed about how we can, and should, teach oracy and encourage speaking skills in the classroom and across the school – not least in SecEd.
Oracy campaigners are now hopeful that the government’s on-going Curriculum and Assessment Review will go some way to putting oracy front and centre in the curriculum – even though its interim report in March did not make specific mention of oracy skills.
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