Watch @KristianJ23's report for BBC News (UK) on today's launch. Featuring students and staff from Oracy Centre of Excellence Cubitt Town Primary School. What better advocates for the benefits of oracy could there be?

Geoff Barton I started teaching the year before Bullock was published. It mattered then and I would argue matters even more today. An excellent report from the Oracy Commission that should be compulsory reading across the teaching and training profession. We simply need to talk!

“Rory, just listen to this, you'll love this: ‘Now more than ever we need our young people to be equipped to ask questions, articulate ideas, formulate powerful arguments … and to disagree agreeably’”: delighted the #Oracy report is on The Rest Is Politics: buff.ly/4eVzFwN

Thanks to the thousands who came to hear me and @rorystewartuk talk politics in Brum. Especially the school trips! New ⁦The Rest Is Politics⁩ out now. Are the Tories dead or sleeping? Oracy. Proportionality in war. What makes a good civil servant and more alastaircampbell.org/2024/10/325-qu…

Fantastic support for the findings of the Oracy Education Commission on The Rest Is Politics - as ALASTAIR CAMPBELL says ‘parents are behind it, the economy needs it, it’s good for democracy, teachers welcome it, children deserve it.’ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the… Geoff Barton

“We're recording this on the day that there's been this report by ⁦Oracy Education Commission⁩. So that might be something on ‘the grid’. But you plan for that”: ⁦ALASTAIR CAMPBELL⁩ on how to bring coherence to government messages: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

Back in one of my happy places - Schools North East Summit. CEO Chris Zarraga sharing that today’s the 16th Summit, making me feel very old but proud of what an amazing organisation Schools North East has grown to be!

Rousing speech by Schools North East CEO Chris Zarraga on today’s conference theme ‘Educating Westminster’ - a compelling tale of the need to change the narrative about the region via the parks of New York and fauna of Ascension Island! #SNESummit24

Fan-girling over this morning’s history teacher Dan Jackson sharing a fascinating account of the rise and fall and rise again of the North East at Schools North East - be warned I’ll be quoting this for months to come! #SNESummit24

One week on from the Oracy Education Commission ‘We Need To Talk.’ report launched, it’s great to hear the conversation about the importance of oracy education continues - this morning with Bridget Phillipson on BBC Radio 4 Today

.Catherine McKinnell MP making her 1st keynote speech as Minister for School Standards on home turf Schools North East Summit - first time in its 16 year history that the Summit has welcomed a Labour Education Minister and even better to have one who’s born and bred in the region! #SNESummit24

.Catherine McKinnell MP talking about how the curriculum should enable children to ‘find their voice’ and that the Curriculum and Assessment Review aims to create the space for this to happen, stressing that this is not about ‘imposing ideology from Westminster’. Schools North East #SNESummit24

‘I want schools to be places of joy … joy in achievement…joy in belonging.. and joy in joint endeavour’ Catherine McKinnell MP #SNESummit24 - What will it take to bring joy to our schools?

Mass nodding in agreement at (The Real) David Cameron’s description of the ‘Tyranny of the Immediate’ in schools #SNESummit24

‘What teachers need is a repertoire not a regulation’ (the real) David Cameron Schools North East #SNESummit24

‘Yes it was scary to speak up against the Taliban but it was scarier to not speak up …the girl that was speaking for 50k girls in the Swat valley now speaks for the 125 million girls not in education in the world.’ Ziauddin Yousafzai Malala Fund inspiring the room #SNESummit24

.John Roberts reveals his impeccable taste by stating that the Schools North East Summit is his favourite event in the education calendar! #SNESummit24

"With an autumn statement chock-full of hard financial decisions, #oracy feels like a rarity: a low-cost, high-impact intervention with potential to deliver transformative change for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds": well said, Ayesha buff.ly/3Ad5KBC

Yesterday, Education Minister, Jacqui Smith said in Parliament: "We need to make sure that young people are able to express themselves and to engage in discussion and debate. That is why we welcome...the work that Geoff Barton and his Oracy Education Commission have carried out..." /1

Wonderful BBC Breakfast report on VE Mail this morning with the incredible Bombardier Tom Jones, aged 103! Sign up (for free) to connect your school/youth organisation with a WW2 Veteran to share their story for VEDay80 together.org.uk/vemail