Alastair Campbell and children’s author Michael Rosen among advocates calling for oracy to be in curriculum
The children’s writer Michael Rosen, one-time political strategist Alastair Campbell and former education secretaries Charles Clarke and Estelle Morris have urged the prime minister to honour his pre-election pledge to embed speaking skills in England’s schools.
They are among 60 signatories to an open letter to Keir Starmer, calling on him to establish oracy as a core part of Labour’s revised national curriculum and make it the fourth ‘R’ in education, alongside reading, writing and arithmetic.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/23/keir-starmer-urged-to-honour-pledge-to-embed-speaking-skills-in-englands-schools
Author : Sally Weale
Publish date : 2025-07-23 04:00:00
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