Oracy is now spoken about daily in our Primary schools but often not fully understood or implemented to make the best impact for our children.
We will bring together a group of expert practitioners and researchers to discuss experiential learning, with an opportunity for discussion and questions for all audience members to learn about the why, how and what next in the implementation of an experiential curriculum.
It will be particularly valuable to primary teachers, those involved in curriculum design more broadly, and all educators who want to learn about oracy in practice.
This is being shared with you as part of ‘Rethinking Curriculum’, a project aiming to support and equip teachers and school leaders with the knowledge and skills to identify, plan and implement curriculum development work in a sustainable, context specific and impactful approach.
Rethinking Curriculum Project – chartered.college
About the session
This webinar is part of a series around curriculum enrichment in primary schools as part of the extensive project for the Chartered College, Rethinking Curriculum. This aims to support and equip teachers and school leaders with the knowledge and skills to identify, plan and implement curriculum development work in a sustainable, creative and place based approach. This will mean that all pupils will have access to an expansive, inspiring curriculum that connects them with local communities and enables them to lead healthy, fulfilled lives.
Our webinar series around curriculum enrichment aims to bring experts around curriculum implementation with a variety of foci from youth social action, play, oracy, pupil agency, sustainability and many more. This series will be brought to you over the academic year 2023-24 and will aim to share from experts and allow attendees to discuss and ask questions. You will also have resources from the project pilot made available to you in relation to the webinar topics.
Event attendees will have access not just to the event itself but to supporting materials and resources in order to start discussions in their settings.
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Jenna Crittenden is Curriculum Design Lead at the Chartered College of Teaching, leading a national project ‘Rethinking Curriculum’ that aims to support and equip teachers and school leaders with the knowledge and skills to identify, plan and implement curriculum development work in a sustainable, context specific and impactful approach. This will mean that all pupils will have access to an expansive, inspiring curriculum that connects them with local communities and enables them to lead healthy, fulfilled lives. Prior to joining the college Jenna has been a Primary Headteacher, Curriculum Design lead, governor and also acts as a trustee for MTPT.
Dr Victoria Cook is Education and Research Project Specialist at the Chartered College of Teaching. Victoria contributes to a variety of internal and external research projects at the Chartered College of Teaching. Her research interests include dialogic pedagogy and learning outside the classroom. Prior to joining the College, Victoria worked at Voice 21 and she spent five years as a postdoctoral Research Associate at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, where she worked on two international dialogue-based research projects. She is a qualified geography teacher.
Jo Brumby at Voice 21 as the Head of Product Management. This role involves co-ordinating the learning opportunities that support member schools deliver a high-quality oracy education. Previous to this, Jo worked in primary schools in different locations across the country and has been a deputy head at a primary school in Sussex.
Hydeh Fayaz is the Acting Deputy Head, Curriculum, Geography and Oracy Lead at St Matthews Research School in Birmingham. She is the Deputy Director for the Research School ELE for the research school and has worked with Oracy Cambridge to create an 18 month modular programme entitled “Oracy in Action: Developing Purposeful Talk in EYFS and KS1”
Rachel Higginson– Finding My Voice- Rachel is passionate about facilitating professional conversations and supporting education evolution. She is a creative consultant, keynote speaker and has been in education for 25 years. She is the Primary Adviser for Uffculme Academy Trust, a collaborator for Myatt & Co, has written the DFE approved curriculum for a South West free school, and is the Education Consultant for the children’s publisher, Redan.She is also acting as an expert co designer in one of our pilot Rethinking Curriculum schools. She has designed the ‘Finding my Voice’ project based in Devon, but now rolling out as a national whole-school approach with the aim to support young people to physically and metaphorically ‘find their voice’.
The session will be hosted by Jenna Crittenden ( Curriculum Design Lead and part of the Professional Learning and Accreditation team) from the Chartered College of Teaching , our guests Jo Brunsby from Voice 21 and Rachel Higginson of Finding My Voice and other TBC. This will include the opportunity for attendees to pose their own questions to our guest panel around their experiences in implementing social action in primary schools.
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- Research Hub – The Research Hub hosts summaries of academic and practitioner research as well as reports that Chartered College of Teaching members have contributed to. You can also find a list of opportunities to participate in external research projects and access a range of tools to support you in your research engagement journey.
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