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Oracy And Beyond

Al Booth / Your Podclass

Oracy And Beyond brings together people who are passionate about the transformative effects oracy can have in helping young people find their voice and their confidence. Through sharing their own experiences of seeing the difference oracy in a classroom setting can have, as well as looking back on the difference oracy would have made to their own school days, Oracy And Beyond offers anecdotes as well as expert thoughts and ideas. Hosted by Al Booth, broadcaster and founder of Your Podclass, Oracy

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37:55

Oracy And Psychology: Does Oracy play a part in our...

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2025/11/26

"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 PopoolaIn this episode I am joined by Educational Psychologist and author of "Reimagining Education", Dr Maddi Popoola.We go right back to the early stages of development i.e. in the womb, with Dr. Maddi asking when we should start to consider Oracy learning. She looks at how confidence comes from inclusive learning, which stems from Oracy. And Dr Maddi

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21:02

Oracy In Dialogue: How recognising the dynamics of...

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2025/11/12

"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 the Curriculum and Assessment Review Final Report, I chat with Alice Pepper (Oracy Award Lead at One Education) about how wider oracy learning has to involved classroom dialogue to create equity in young people. Alice is an education consultant who understands the importance of helping educators implement oracy in schools. In this episode we discuss

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25:56

Oracy And Children's Stories: Looking back at my...

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2025/10/29

"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." - BeyonceHello, I'm the host or Oracy And Beyond, Al Booth. I always like to start these notes with a quote from the guest featured in the episode. In this episode, however, my first six guests are all here to share their stories of the time a child shone through Oracy. In every episode of the podcast I ask my guest to share a story of the moment a

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33:16

Oracy In Phonics: How children can thrive when they...

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2025/10/15

"Oracy is truly inclusive. It's not about speaking perfectly but about giving students the confidence and skills to express themselves authentically." - Laura BroganLaura Brogan is the National Education Lead for Phonics and Early Reading at Twinkle Educational Publishing.She is passionate about helping children find their voice by starting where they are, which oracy is an absolute aid for. In this episode Laura:Talks about having her Oracy Epiphany when she taught in a school based in a deprived

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31:38

Oracy In Philosophy: How the oldest form of debate...

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2025/10/01

"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 teaching them about history or geometry or something." - Bob CoenraatsIn this episode of Oracy And Beyond we are in The Netherlands to talk to philosophy teacher and passionate oracy advocate Bob Coenraats. Bob talks about:* His own insights from his experience as a philosophy teacher, highlighting the importance of teaching students to express their ideas

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25:27

Oracy In Science: How debating scientific theories...

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2025/09/17

"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 a radio station boardroom a new Managing Director was giving a talk to the on-air team. During her introduction she said she wanted to see mistakes. She wanted to see ideas that didn't come off. Because if we were getting things wrong, we were trying something new, and we were learning from it.You can't learn anything new if you don't move in a

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31:38

Oracy As An Epiphany: How listening is a vital way of...

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2025/09/03

"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 students' oracy; it's mine too. And the staff in the room. That was my epiphany."Louise Pickering is the Head of Social Sciences at Weavers Academy, part of the Creative Education Trust. Louise admits to having been someone who taught how she'd been taught to teach... until a chance meeting at a conference led her down an oracy rabbit hole from which she's

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35:43

Oracy By Numbers: How Maths Is Transformed By Talking...

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2025/08/08

"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 with a question, or they were halfway through a question. For me, that was like the prime example of how we could prove that oracy was just a brilliant way of doing things."Caroline Hudson is The Kitchen Table Teacher. With more than 30-years' experience in Early Years teaching and leadership, she specialises in Oracy, Maths and English.And it is how

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20:49

Oracy for the Community: fostering oracy in school...

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2025/07/22

"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 then because of that, because the way that education was back then, I never developed those skills needed and that vocabulary needed."Michelle Windridge is the National Education Lead for school-based EYFS at Twinkl. She has also been published in TES and EYE magazine. In this episode Michelle shares her own reflections on the new details being

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TRAILER: Why Oracy and beyond?

Oracy And Beyond ·

2025/07/17

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 helping young people discover their voice (and their confidence) through communication. I'll talk to people from education who have been and are in classrooms, to experts in the field, to people for who oracy - whether they knew it or not at the time - has impacted them directly. Oracy IS equity. Which is why this podcast is all about Oracy and beyond. If

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