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Voice 21
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The UK's national oracy education charity.

Become a Voice 21 Oracy School: https://membership-hub.voice21.org/membership-hub
At Voice 21 we value every voice, and so we encourage you to express yourself in ways that feel most natural to you. Which moves will you make?
December 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Our Talk Tactics are scaffolds for talk - they are different 'moves' that can help us participate effectively in a discussion. Each Talk Tactic includes example sentence stems that could be used to scaffold contributions.
December 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The Voice 21 Student Talk Tactics are a set of tactics that students can use to promote educationally productive talk in the classroom.

Download the poster here 👇

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December 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Since then, teachers have been using The Oracy Framework to support the development of physical, linguistic, cognitive, and social and emotional skills that underpin speaking, listening and communication🗣️

Download the Oracy Framework here 👇
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#Voice21FestivalOfGiving
December 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Our Oracy Benchmarks set the standard for high-quality oracy education, offering a clear framework for schools to develop and assess their oracy provision.

View it here 👇

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#Voice21FestivalOfGiving #oracy #oracybenchmarks
December 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
We’re proud to be members of the Speech, Language and Communication Alliance as we believe for all children, especially those with speech and language challenges, the right support at the right time can be transformative.

Read the report in full here 📕👇
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December 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Implementation will be key 🔑

We look forward to working with the sector to ensure that the expertise developed by, and with, over 1200 Voice 21 Oracy Schools, and 90 Oracy Centres of Excellence informs the guidance that schools nationwide will follow 🗣️

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November 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
✔️ The Curriculum & Assessment Review recommends giving greater prominence to oracy in the English curriculum.

✔️ It also highlights the importance of #oracy across all subject areas, with specific additional recommendations for drama and citizenship 👇

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Voice 21 responds to the Curriculum and Assessment Review - Voice 21
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November 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM
The connection between oracy education and improved confidence in mathematics is becoming increasingly evident in Voice 21 Oracy Schools 👇

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In practice: building mathematical confidence through talk - Voice 21
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November 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM