Voice 21 Oracy

What is Oracy?

Oracy is the ability to articulate ideas, develop understanding and engage with others through spoken language.

Voice 21 is the UK’s oracy education charity. We work with schools to transform the learning and life chances of young people through talk. We campaign for oracy to have a higher status in the education system. Voice 21 are on a mission to transform the learning and life chances of young people through talk so that all children can use their voice for success in school and in life.

Our sustained approach weaves oracy into a school’s DNA, ensuring current and future students have access to a high-quality oracy education. This means that students in Voice 21 Oracy Schools, including those who would otherwise miss out, develop the oracy skills they need for success in school and in life.

At Luckwell Primary School, with the Voice 21 programme, we are demonstrating the value and importance of oracy. We inspire our children to engage in high quality talk, whilst providing them with a high quality talk education and, in doing so, make society a fairer, more equitable place where all voices are valued and heard.

We believe that oracy is a powerful tool or learning; by teaching pupils to become more effective speakers and listeners. We empower them to better understand themselves, each other and the world around them.

It is also a route to social mobility, empowering all pupils to find their voice to succeed in school and life. Through a high quality oracy education, students learn through talk and to talk. This is when they develop and deepen their subject knowledge and understanding through talk in the classroom, which has been planned, designed, modelled, scaffolded and structured to enable them to learn the skills needed to talk effectively.