Oracy Award

Enhancing all pupils’ oracy skills not only strengthens their learning, wellbeing, and confidence but also lays the foundation for their future lives.

Despite being a key part of the National Curriculum and EYFS Framework, Oracy provision continues to lag behind other areas of Literacy, with the Oracy Commission finding that “Sustained, high-quality oracy education is not a universal aspect of our children and young people’s educational experience.”

Demonstrate your commitment to fostering effective communication by developing your school’s oracy practice with the One Education Oracy Award – empowering your pupils with the skills they need for success.

Click here to download the Oracy Commission Report

Enhancing all pupils’ oracy skills not only strengthens their learning, wellbeing, and confidence but also lays the foundation for their future lives.

Click here to download the Oracy Commission Report

“Sustained, high-quality oracy education is not a universal aspect of our children and young people’s educational experience.”

Oracy Education Commission, 2024

Oracy Award Overview

The One Education Oracy Award is the only national oracy quality mark that supports schools to develop and implement effective oracy practice across their whole curriculum. Working towards the award will guide your school to promote effective speaking, listening and communication skills for all pupils.

The Oracy Award provides clear guidance to establish oracy development across the primary and secondary phases, offering a framework for oracy leadership, provision and understanding for all stakeholders. Our support is unique, with our in-house team of Oracy experts and Speech and Language Therapists there to support Oracy Award subscribers throughout their journey.

Through self assessment or support from One Education consultants, schools can choose one of three awards to work towards:

The award aims to enable schools to effectively review their practice, identifying strengths, next steps and the opportunity to be recognised for their excellence.

Schools have one calendar year to compile their evidence to complete the award using the criteria and support provided.

The Oracy Award accreditation lasts for 3 years, after which it can be renewed through a streamlined assessment process. The option to work towards the next level of the award is also available for schools within this time.

We look forward to welcoming you to the One Education
Oracy Award and working with you to develop truly effective oracy provision for your pupils.

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Oracy - Curriculum

Oracy is the cornerstone to effective learning and communication. It is central to developing key life skills as well as to support the development of knowledge and personal wellbeing. Yet, research shows that oracy has not been given the focus it deserves, leading to children lacking confidence and struggling to access learning.

Our approach to supporting oracy development is focused on our research-based framework which encompasses the three strands of oral communication: learning to talk; talking to learn and learning about talk.

Together, our in-house Literacy experts and Speech and Language Therapists can offer specialist support to develop best practice in oracy across your school. By establishing a bespoke oracy-rich curriculum whose language, expectations and provision is best designed to enable all learners, we can support you to develop your oracy provision so that it will improve pupils’ outcomes at school and beyond.

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Oracy Award - Literacy Products and Services

Celebrate your school’s oracy provision and commitment to developing effective communication across the curriculum by undertaking One Education’s Oracy Award.

Inspire children’s confidence and competence by enabling learning through and about talk to achieve effective communication which enhances the building of knowledge and curriculum success. The Oracy Award will showcase the dedication your school shows in prioritising communication as a life-skill for all pupils.

Oracy - EYFS Products and Services

Oracy is the cornerstone to effective learning and communication. It is central to developing key life skills as well as to support the development of knowledge and personal wellbeing. Indeed, in the EYFS, the DfE state that “The development of children’s spoken language underpins all seven areas of learning and development.” Yet, research shows that there is a declining trend in outcomes for Communication and Language.

Children in the EYFS deserve the very best start for Oracy. Our approach to supporting oracy development from the earliest years of school, is focused on our research-based framework which encompasses the three strands of oral communication: learning to talk; talking to learn and learning about talk.

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“Working with our consultant proved invaluable support to identify where the school was at with regards to Oracy. The identification of next steps with clear examples of how to put these into action was extremely useful and I still refer back to the audit when implementing these changes to our approach. The reference documents and reading materials to support our further work have also been hugely beneficial.“

Helen Lee, Deputy Headteacher,

Queensgate Primary School, Stockport.

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