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26 September 2025
Thoughts, Tips and techniques

Three recurring findings from talk audits

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26 September 2025
Thoughts, Tips and techniques

Time to raise your oracy game?

Tagged: talk/oracy, talk audit, high expectations, teacher talk, learning through talk

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19 September 2025
Tips and techniques

Get them talking in maths

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19 September 2025
Tips and techniques

Twenty talking points you can use today

Tagged: talk/oracy, talking points, group talk, oracy in maths

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12 September 2025
Tips and techniques, Practical examples

Saying it out loud really helps you remember

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12 September 2025
Tips and techniques, Practical examples

Give students opportunities to say and apply new vocabulary

Tagged: talk/oracy, pupil voice, pupil talk, vocabulary, learning through talk, choral speaking, pair talk / talk partners, talk audit, impact, oracy in maths

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5 September 2025
Tips and techniques, Thoughts

Progress in P4C goes beyond skills!

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5 September 2025
Tips and techniques, Thoughts

Where are your students up to?

Tagged: P4C (Philosophy for Children), metacognition, respectful challenge, empathy, reasoning, less confident talkers / 'quiet children'

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5 September 2025
Recommended reading

Thoughtful – the new name for SAPERE

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5 September 2025
Recommended reading

A new name to encompass everything the P4C charity represents

Tagged: P4C (Philosophy for Children)

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29 August 2025
Thoughts, Tips and techniques

Listening culture

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29 August 2025
Thoughts, Tips and techniques

Emphasising listening to each other rather than talking to each other

Tagged: talk/oracy, listening, classroom culture

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22 August 2025
Tips and techniques, Research

The importance of ground rules

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22 August 2025
Tips and techniques, Research

One of the essential foundations for effective learning talk

Tagged: talk/oracy, ground rules / talk agreement, group talk, listening, respectful challenge, whole-class talk

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15 August 2025
Recommended reading, Practical examples

Children's speeches to inspire you

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15 August 2025
Recommended reading, Practical examples

International TED talks and a UK speech competition

Tagged: public speaking, presentational talk, talk/oracy, pupil talk

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8 August 2025
Tips and techniques

P4C library

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8 August 2025
Tips and techniques

Help yourself and your colleagues by labelling books for P4C

Tagged: P4C (Philosophy for Children), P4C stimuli, picture books for P4C

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1 August 2025
Recommended reading

Sharing a story is an act of love

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1 August 2025
Recommended reading

A powerful message about young children’s learning

Tagged: talk/oracy, early years / EYFS, reading, life readiness, technology, young children, storytelling, parental engagement, podcast

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25 July 2025
Recommended reading

The Transformative Power of Finding Your Voice – Neil Mercer's new book on Oracy

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25 July 2025
Recommended reading

Recommended reading for teachers and everyone else too!

Tagged: talk/oracy, learning through talk, group talk, oracy across the curriculum, public speaking, accents, young children, oracy skills, technology

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18 July 2025
P4C/Talk stimulus

Oracy activity for the summer holidays

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18 July 2025
P4C/Talk stimulus

Would you rather spend most of your time indoors or outdoors? And more

Tagged: oracy activities, talk/oracy games, talk/oracy, thinking questions

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11 July 2025
Tips and techniques

Thinking together about big ideas

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11 July 2025
Tips and techniques

With examples from Where the Wild Things Are

Tagged: P4C / philosophical concepts, P4C (Philosophy for Children), behaviour, P4C questions, concept activity, concept stretcher, philosophical exercise, picture books for P4C

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4 July 2025
Tips and techniques

Story chain – listening activity

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4 July 2025
Tips and techniques

Learners recall fiction, processes, explanations and more by listening and building on what others have said

Tagged: talk/oracy, storytelling, turn-taking, exploratory talk, collaborative thinking, listening, collaborative talk, group talk

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27 June 2025
Resources, Tips and techniques

Concept collision – get your students thinking deeply

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27 June 2025
Resources, Tips and techniques

Are these examples of adventure, bravery, or both?

Tagged: P4C (Philosophy for Children), P4C / philosophical concepts, critical thinking, philosophical exercise, concept stretcher

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20 June 2025
Tips and techniques

Listening pitfalls

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20 June 2025
Tips and techniques

Do you ever do any of these things, instead of fully listening to someone?

Tagged: talk/oracy, listening, review and reflection, social & emotional oracy skills

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13 June 2025
Practical examples

Learning through talk in Science

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13 June 2025
Practical examples

How one teacher got everyone thinking, talking, listening and learning

Tagged: talk/oracy, oracy activities, oracy across the curriculum, pair talk / talk partners, active learning, oracy KS4, talk audit, linguistic oracy skills, cognitive oracy skills, changing partners, oracy in science

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6 June 2025
Thoughts, Tips and techniques

‘Everyone works with everyone’

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6 June 2025
Thoughts, Tips and techniques

Give pupils the skills and resilience to work with a diverse range of people

Tagged: talk/oracy, pair talk / talk partners, changing partners, empathy, life skills, life readiness, oracy skills, social & emotional oracy skills

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30 May 2025
P4C/Talk stimulus

What should Rosa say?

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30 May 2025
P4C/Talk stimulus

Should you protect someone’s feelings, or tell them what you really think?

Tagged: P4C (Philosophy for Children), talk/oracy, kindness, caring thinking, critical thinking, collaborative thinking

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23 May 2025
Resources

From Thought to Talk – metacognition resource

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23 May 2025
Resources

Talk prompts and sentence stems to help learners express different types of thinking

Tagged: sentence stems, sentence starters, talk prompts, Thinking Moves A-Z, talk/oracy, metacognition, dialogic teaching

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