Oracy And Beyond
Episodes
Oracy And The First 1000 Days: How Nurture and Environment Can Affect the Language Gap Before School Begins
30 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Oracy isn't just about learning to talk, it's about learning through talk. It's about building those cognitive foundations for everything else." - Tr...
Oracy And A.I. Assessments: How Artificial Intelligence could help young people find their voice for exams.
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"In today's world, far too much communication is happening digitally. We've lost that ability to speak and to listen and to understand each other. Get...
Oracy And Movement: How combining physical movement with vocabulary can help develop speech in early years and beyond.
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Speech and language is coordination, but also your whole body movement is coordination. So, if children are learning vocabulary through something the...
Oracy And Podcasting: How practicing oracy builds confidence to communicate.
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
“Sometimes the quietest student in the classroom has the most to say — they just need the right space to say it.” - Veronique TrangBeing a child...
Oracy And Social Mobility: How encouraging communication can bridge the social divide from an early age - Michael Gardner
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Oracy has a power for social mobility and opportunities for those that maybe don't have the language in their upbringing. That's not to say that orac...
Oracy and Human Connection: How can children hold on to their sense of self in an age of AI and social media - Shilpa Jamieson
14 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"To me, oracy is life. We are animals from time beyond. If we've been evolved to communicate, we need to communicate to survive. So, it's life, isn't ...
Oracy is All Around: How to recognise the oracy in everyday... and make it fun. With Hanna Beech
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Oracy is like air because it's all around us. It's for everybody." - Hanna BeechIn this episode Hanna Beech discusses how oracy is like air: essentia...
Oracy for Teachers: Why understanding how to use your voice will grow children's confidence - Georgie Ross
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Teachers spend their whole life using their voice, so supporting teachers, not just in terms of how they teach oracy, but also in their own Orocy ski...
Oracy And Psychology: Does Oracy play a part in our development even before we are born?
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"We're not born with language. We're born with communication, skills and desire, but we're not born with the words to get needs met." - Dr. Maddi Popo...
Oracy In Dialogue: How recognising the dynamics of classroom dialogue is key - Alice Pepper
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Oracy has got this opportunity to give people a voice and for them to recognise what it is to be heard." - Alice PepperIn this first episode since th...
Oracy And Children's Stories: Looking back at my guests' stories of how Oracy has changed children's lives.
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Listen to the song here in my heart. A melody I start, but can't complete. Listen to the sound from deep within, it's only beginning to find release....
Oracy In Phonics: How children can thrive when they are given the oracy skills to express themselves authentically. - Laura Brogan
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Oracy is truly inclusive. It's not about speaking perfectly but about giving students the confidence and skills to express themselves authentically."...
Oracy In Philosophy: How the oldest form of debate can give a voice to young people - Bob Coenraats
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"We need to find what's inside children's minds if we want to teach them. We need to find what they find important before we take the hassle of teachi...
Oracy In Science: How debating scientific theories can change the world's future - Peter Munroe
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Mistakes are okay. If you're making mistakes, it shows that you're trying something and that you're working on it." - Pete MunroeOnce upon a time in ...
Oracy As An Epiphany: How listening is a vital way of teaching - Louise Pickering
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I'm talking too much and I'm not letting anyone else speak, and that will be impacting students all the time in my classroom. It's not just the stude...
Oracy By Numbers: How Maths Is Transformed By Talking - Caroline Hudson
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I would deliberately do bits wrong, and they could tell me. And they did it in pairs, they did it in fours, they did it where they were starting off ...
Oracy for the Community: fostering oracy in school and at home - Michelle Windridge (Twinkl)
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I was painfully shy. I am dyslexic as well. If I could get through a day without speaking and having anyone look at me, then that was a success. But ...
TRAILER: Why Oracy and beyond?
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Oracy and beyond exists to celebrate the fact that Oracy IS equity. On this show I chat to anyone who is passionate about oracy, and more so about hel...