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25 July 2025
Recommended reading

The Transformative Power of Finding Your Voice – Neil Mercer's new book on Oracy

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25 July 2025
Recommended reading

Recommended reading for teachers and everyone else too!

Tagged: talk/oracy, learning through talk, group talk, oracy across the curriculum, public speaking, accents, young children, oracy skills, technology

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18 July 2025
P4C/Talk stimulus

Oracy activity for the summer holidays

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18 July 2025
P4C/Talk stimulus

Would you rather spend most of your time indoors or outdoors? And more

Tagged: oracy activities, talk/oracy games, talk/oracy, thinking questions

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11 July 2025
Tips and techniques

Thinking together about big ideas

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11 July 2025
Tips and techniques

With examples from Where the Wild Things Are

Tagged: P4C / philosophical concepts, P4C (Philosophy for Children), behaviour, P4C questions, Picture books for P4C, concept activity, concept stretcher, philosophical exercise

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4 July 2025
Tips and techniques

Story chain – listening activity

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4 July 2025
Tips and techniques

Learners recall fiction, processes, explanations and more by listening and building on what others have said

Tagged: talk/oracy, storytelling, turn-taking, exploratory talk, collaborative thinking, listening, collaborative talk, group talk

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27 June 2025
Resources, Tips and techniques

Concept collision – get your students thinking deeply

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27 June 2025
Resources, Tips and techniques

Are these examples of adventure, bravery, or both?

Tagged: P4C (Philosophy for Children), P4C / philosophical concepts, critical thinking, philosophical exercise, concept stretcher

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20 June 2025
Tips and techniques

Listening pitfalls

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20 June 2025
Tips and techniques

Do you ever do any of these things, instead of fully listening to someone?

Tagged: talk/oracy, listening, review and reflection, social & emotional oracy skills

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13 June 2025
Practical examples

Learning through talk in Science

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13 June 2025
Practical examples

How one teacher got everyone thinking, talking, listening and learning

Tagged: talk/oracy, oracy activities, oracy across the curriculum, pair talk / talk partners, oracy in Science, active learning, oracy KS4, talk audit, linguistic oracy skills, cognitive oracy skills, changing partners

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6 June 2025
Thoughts, Tips and techniques

‘Everyone works with everyone’

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6 June 2025
Thoughts, Tips and techniques

Give pupils the skills and resilience to work with a diverse range of people

Tagged: talk/oracy, pair talk / talk partners, changing partners, empathy, life skills, life readiness, oracy skills, social & emotional oracy skills

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30 May 2025
P4C/Talk stimulus

What should Rosa say?

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30 May 2025
P4C/Talk stimulus

Should you protect someone’s feelings, or tell them what you really think?

Tagged: P4C (Philosophy for Children), talk/oracy, kindness, caring thinking, critical thinking, collaborative thinking

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23 May 2025
Resources

From Thought to Talk – metacognition resource

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23 May 2025
Resources

Talk prompts and sentence stems to help learners express different types of thinking

Tagged: sentence stems, sentence starters, talk prompts, Thinking Moves A-Z, talk/oracy, metacognition, dialogic teaching

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16 May 2025
Tips and techniques

Talk prompts to help students explain and reason in Maths

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16 May 2025
Tips and techniques

Help students to use the language of Maths

Tagged: talk/oracy, oracy in Maths, talk prompts, reasoning, pupil talk, dialogue, sentence starters, sentence stems, talk frames

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9 May 2025
P4C/Talk stimulus

Was Jack bad? P4C stimulus

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9 May 2025
P4C/Talk stimulus

Children thinking about choices in Jack and the Beanstalk

Tagged: critical thinking, caring thinking, oracy activities, talk/oracy in Literacy, traditional tales, P4C (Philosophy for Children), Picture books for P4C

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2 May 2025
Tips and techniques

Oracy for revision

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2 May 2025
Tips and techniques

Harness the benefits of collaborative talk

Tagged: revision, talk/oracy, pair talk / talk partners, changing partners, oracy across the curriculum, oracy activities, talk audit, oracy KS2

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25 April 2025
Thoughts

Do you phub people?

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25 April 2025
Thoughts

The effect of excessive smartphone use on oracy

Tagged: talk/oracy, screens, technology, early years / EYFS

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18 April 2025
P4C/Talk stimulus

New ‘Fantastic Philosophy’ video series

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18 April 2025
P4C/Talk stimulus

Lawrence the Lion and Maple the Meerkat tackle some philosophical dilemmas…

Tagged: P4C (Philosophy for Children), whole-class talk, critical thinking, video

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11 April 2025
Thoughts, Practical examples

Does talking help with learning?

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11 April 2025
Thoughts, Practical examples

Perspectives from some 11-year-olds

Tagged: talk/oracy, pupil voice, dialogue, exploratory talk, learning through talk, life skills, pupil talk, reasoning, metacognition

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4 April 2025
Tips and techniques

No repeating! Listening game

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4 April 2025
Tips and techniques

Can they remember what everyone else said?

Tagged: talk/oracy, listening, talk/oracy games, oracy activities, games

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28 March 2025
Thoughts, Tips and techniques

Say it again...

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28 March 2025
Thoughts, Tips and techniques

Is it a good idea to say this to your pupils?

Tagged: talk/oracy, teacher talk, talk moves, high expectations

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21 March 2025
Practical examples, P4C/Talk stimulus, Tips and techniques

Philosophy in Year 2 – Grandad’s Secret Giant

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21 March 2025
Practical examples, P4C/Talk stimulus, Tips and techniques

An example of using children’s wonderings to guide a philosophical discussion

Tagged: P4C (Philosophy for Children), creative thinking, critical thinking, P4C questions, P4C facilitation

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14 March 2025
Tips and techniques

“You said, I think...”

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14 March 2025
Tips and techniques

Get them really listening to, and thinking about, each other’s contributions

Tagged: talk/oracy, whole-class talk, group talk, listening, exploratory talk

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