We work in partnership with schools committed to building and embedding a culture of oracy. As a Partner School, we will work alongside you to raise the tide of talk in your school. Whether this is through innovative curriculum design, inspiring whole-school oracy showcases, or refining pedagogy in classrooms, we support you to identify your strategic priorities for oracy development and help you to deliver against them.

Key components

Our programme consists of three key components which ensure that you have the relevant knowledge, skills and tools to support your students to learn through and to talk:

Practice

Co-plan and team teach engaging lessons which provide students with opportunities to learn to and through talk

Practice

Develop a clear understanding of how to support all learners to access oracy opportunities

Practice

Review, identify and plan for oracy outcomes across the curriculum

Leadership

Identify priorities and write a whole school oracy action plan

Leadership

Equip your staff with the tools they need to plan for, monitor and evaluate impact

Leadership

Support others to develop oracy in their classrooms

Leadership

Set high expectations for oracy which inspire, motivate and challenge students

Leadership

Connect your school to our wider network of Voice 21 Partner Schools and oracy teachers across the country, to build a community of practice

Expertise
Practice
Leadership

Expertise

Develop a critical understanding of what a whole school culture of oracy encompasses

Expertise

Critically engage with approaches and research to support the specific needs of your students and school

As a Partner School, you will:

  • Empower your students to become confident, articulate and engaging speakers
  • Equip your teachers to use purposeful talk to drive learning across the curriculum, deepening students’ knowledge, understanding and reasoning
  • Build a whole-school culture which values and celebrates oracy, in classrooms and beyond
  • Strengthen specialist leadership for oracy in your school

This programme is for your school if:

  • You have identified oracy as a strategic priority and are committed to developing a whole-school approach
  • You have identified a leader for oracy in your school who will be able to implement, with our support, a whole-school action plan
  • You want a long term and bespoke approach, which will be rooted in your school’s ambitions and context

Staff and students from Bishop Young Academy presenting at the Great Oracy Exhibition 2019

Get involved

Duration

Two academic years, with a break clause at the end of year one

Location

National – we come to your school

Costs

We base our costs on pupil population size. View costs

To sign up as a Partner School we have an initial consultation phone call to better understand your motivations, needs and aims as a school. Register below and our team will get back to you to arrange a time to speak.

Register your interest

Hear from programme participants

Find out more about the Partner School Programme from an alumni

Megan Hubbard

Head of English, Park High Stanmore

If there’s one thing I’ve learned it is that oracy supports students learning and is a great way to develop their knowledge. Oracy in no way diminishes the content students cover and their knowledge, it just deepens their understanding and engagement.

Clare Wellbourne

Assistant Head at Easton CE School
Partner School

“Children are much more aware of the benefits of being a confident speaker and are able to ‘talk about talking’. We have seen children grow in ability to speak in a variety of contexts, including in a large assembly. Teachers are more able to plan for talk so children are getting many more opportunities to learn through talk and to talk about their learning.”

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