Articles by tag: oracy

How schools can use their Pupil Premium budgets to boost reading comprehension

We know that school leaders and teaching staff are passionate about providing every pupil with the support and resources they need to succeed academically and...

Supporting young people to develop teamwork skills

In the last week, how many times have you worked with others to achieve a common goal? Did you have to change your ‘role’, adapt...

It’s time to talk

Time to Talk Day marks the day of the nation’s biggest mental health conversation. And our children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) definitely need...

Let’s Pitch It

My fifteen-year journey working in education is best described as unconventional. For over ten years I had the privilege and challenging role of working as...

No Pens Wednesday

24th November 2021 is annual ‘No pens day’. This is an opportunity across schools and early years settings to put down writing tools and use...

Speak up with Speech and Language Link

What a week of focus on children and young people’s speech, language and communication skills! Last week saw the publishing of an important report looking at...

You can’t read hieroglyphics if you don’t understand Egyptian!

Over the Christmas holidays, during the flurry of parcels being delivered to my house, I received a parcel that I had not ordered myself that...

Speech and language while you shop?

Damian Hinds, in a speech last summer, promised to tackle the ‘last taboo’ in education by addressing the home learning environment and the ‘persistent scandal’ that many young children...

Closing the Attainment Gap

You may have heard reference to the ‘word gap’ in the news several times this year. Oxford University Press produced the ‘Oxford Language Report’ earlier...

Language and Communication in the revised Early Learning Goals

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Statutory Framework was revised in June this year by the Department for Education (DfE), with redrafted Early Learning Goals. The...