The final report of the Oracy Education Commission is calling for speaking, listening and communication to be integrated into “every subject across the curriculum as well as in extra-curricular activities”.
Oracy must also be made a key part of the training and development of all teachers, it urges.
The commission began work earlier this year after being established by oracy education charity Voice 21 in partnership with Impetus.
Oracy is a stated priority for the new government and its on-going Curriculum and Assessment Review is to focus its attention in part on young people’s speaking and listening skills (DfE, 2024).
Commission chairman Geoff Barton, a former English teacher and former general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, is hopeful that their recommendations will influence the work of the Curriculum and Assessment Review, which is due to be published next year.
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