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Hosted by Al Booth · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 20 episodes
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Oracy And Beyond explores how communication helps young people find their voice, build confidence and create opportunities throughout life.Each episode brings together educators and communicators to discuss the transformative impact of oracy in schools and the lessons it offers beyond the classroom. They share memories of the times that exploring thoughts and ideas helped young people find their voice, as well as reflecting on when it could have helped their own younger selves. Hosted by broadcaster, live event host and communications specialist Al Booth, Oracy And Beyond is released every other Thursday.If you're passionate about helping young people develop confidence through communication and would like to be a guest, email Al@AlBooth.co.uk.
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"We have many children in our schools who also still do really worry about whether they're going to get it right or not. And that stops them from volunteering to talk. Which is why I'm really interested in other systems
"A student was excluded from a mainstream school in Coventry. He did display very challenging behaviour in the community as well. And we use the music studio a lot. So he started writing song lyrics, then he used these t
"Oracy isn't just about learning to talk, it's about learning through talk. It's about building those cognitive foundations for everything else." - Tracie Butterfill, National Lead Early Years and Families @ Twinkl This
"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. Getting us back to being able to speak to each other is one of the beauti
"Speech and language is coordination, but also your whole body movement is coordination. So, if children are learning vocabulary through something they're experiencing - they're learning the word hop, but they're actuall
“Sometimes the quietest student in the classroom has the most to say — they just need the right space to say it.” - Veronique Trang Being a child with a head full of ideas and suggestions but lacking the confidence or ab
"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 oracy is gonna solve all of the problems in society, but as educators, it'
"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 it?" - Shilpa Jamieson Shilpa Jamieson is family coach, a speaker, and
"Oracy is like air because it's all around us. It's for everybody." - Hanna Beech In this episode Hanna Beech discusses how oracy is like air: essential and omnipresent. She talks about its role in fostering communicatio
"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 skills is very important." - Georgie Ross As Oracy Coach at the English-S
"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 Popoola In this episode I am joined by Educational Psychologist and author
"Oracy has got this opportunity to give people a voice and for them to recognise what it is to be heard." - Alice Pepper In this first episode since the Curriculum and Assessment Review Final Report, I chat with Alice Pe
"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." - Beyonce Hello, I'm the host or Oracy And Beyond, Al Booth. I alway
"Oracy is truly inclusive. It's not about speaking perfectly but about giving students the confidence and skills to express themselves authentically." - Laura Brogan Laura Brogan is the National Education Lead for Phonic
"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 Coenraats In th
"Mistakes are okay. If you're making mistakes, it shows that you're trying something and that you're working on it." - Pete Munroe Once upon a time in a radio station boardroom a new Managing Director was giving a talk t
"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 epip
"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
"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
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
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