Couldn’t be happier. I’ll be there as chief cheerleader! @voice21oracy.bsky.social

It’s me! Looking forward to seeing you there.

Worcestershire’s first Primary School to be an Oracy Centre of Excellence - that’s us! We are over the moon. Thank you for the support @voice21oracy.bsky.social @worcesternews.bsky.social

This is such a brilliant initiative and I couldn't be more delighted that Measuring Me! has been chosen to help welcome reception children beginning their school lives. Good luck to every single one of them and happy reading!

This is so thrilling to read. I hope they enjoy Measuring Me and that they have a brilliant start to their school careers! Thank you for choosing my book and for giving such important priority to a love of reading and books. ❤️

Fifty copies of Measuring Me by @nicolakent.bsky.social for our new Reception children. Delivered by hand to their front doors creating a reading community before they even step foot in the building!

Shiny trinkets…I read that as you being a magpie of colourful picture books! I’ll be interested to hear what you think.

This is a special read. Thank you @theclpe.bsky.social for alerting me! 🐺🐺🐺❤️

Thank you to all the St Barnabas team for your leadership and being part of the oracy mission.

Here we are ❤️

Famous at last! ❤️ @voice21oracy.bsky.social

Our Year 6s wrote to @tomcollinsworcs.bsky.social about car idling outside schools. They are worried! Today, each child was sent their own personalised letter in reply. Thank you Tom! @worcesternews.bsky.social

Welcome to our Year 3 Roman Museum. The children loved speaking as historians, being tour guides and sharing exhibits. Inventions, mosaics, emperors, Boudicca, green screen adverts, Celts vs Romans dance and so much more. @voice21oracy.bsky.social

Our work on #Oracy is changing our world. Check out the @poetrybyheart.bsky.social children blowing the audience’s socks off at a big parent celebration yesterday @voice21oracy.bsky.social @amygaunt.bsky.social @kateparadine.bsky.social

A graphic showing a young woman onstage at Shakespeare's Globe. Poetry By Heart holds its Grand Finale there, a day long celebration of poetry and young people's achievements as finalists come from across the country to perform their poems live for the judges and for an excited audience on the Globe's stage. Find out more https://poetrybyheart.org.uk/

Everyone who takes part in Poetry By Heart knows the impact it has on young people. We want to celebrate that and everything #poetry can do in a film - an uplifting reminder of why the arts are integral to our society. Find out more and how you can help 🎥
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Voice 21 responds to the baffling omission of oracy in the Curriculum and Assessment Review Interim Report - Voice 21

Yesterday, the Curriculum and Assessment Review’s Interim Report was released – but in a baffling omission, it doesn’t mention oracy or speaking, listening and communication. Here's why this matters👇

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The view from here: great pleasure today to attend the @voice21oracy.bsky.social ‘Speaking Summit,’ reflecting on the next stage of our #oracy journey. Well done to @kateparadine.bsky.social & team. A bonus to bump into oracy commissioner Jeffrey Boakye:

So, how do we define oracy… – Sec Ed - Voice 21

Everyone is talking about oracy—or so it seems. But what actually is oracy?

Our head of learning impact and influence @amygaunt.bsky.social explores the history of this timely question in @seced.bsky.social's best practice guide to teaching oracy in schools 👇

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Same same x

Home after an inspirational day @voice21oracy.bsky.social #SpeakingSummit So much sense being talked by Estelle Morris, Jeffrey Boakye and the royalty of #Oracy @kateparadine.bsky.social @amygaunt.bsky.social

Such a treat to have author Nicola Davies in school today. We have been wowed by the zoological facts and beautiful illustrations, we’ve even learned to sing like a blue whale! 🐳

We are deep in to learning our poems by heart for @poetrybyheart.bsky.social the performance skills are sophisticated!! @voice21oracy.bsky.social #Oracy #Poetry

Check out this concentration during our @harrietmuncaster.bsky.social workshop today. Year 3 are Big Isadora Moon fans!

I love this!

Love this debut from Portuguese writer #InesViegasOliviera.

“The Duel” is a profound and thoughtful tale of letting go of past conflicts and seeing beyond the hate. Two men duel but one just keeps walking. Change in palettes show the change in thought and outlook. Quietly great #PicturebookPage

Our Ofsted report is out today. We are very proud of our school community. Have a read on our website. st-barnabas-primary.worcs.sch.uk

We are very proud to have been awarded the Equal Access trophy for our work on girls’ football. Check out this group of future Lionesses celebrating @worcesternews @England @EnglandFootball @Lionesses #thisgirlcan

Make oracy the fourth ‘R’ of education, theatre boss says Rufus Norris, the outgoing head of the National Theatre, wants children to learn oral language skills across the curriculum

As @nationaltheatre.org.uk’s Artistic Director Rufus Norris says: “#Oracy should be the fourth ‘R’”: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12...

Our #DailyMileSantaRun was a blast yesterday @worcesternews.bsky.social

Photo shows all six books in The Boy Who Grew Dragons series written by Andy Shepherd and illustrated by Sara Ogilvie. In front of the books there is a small red cuddly dragon wearing a Santa hat and behind is an inflatable reindeer covered in a string of gold tinsel and a Xmas tree

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I love Christmas & so do the dragons!🐉🎄

Do you have a dragon lover in your family?

Why not pop a dragon treat under the tree for them!

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