@shinetrust.org.uk hi!

Something I'm hearing a lot from teachers atm is about learners being too passive in lessons. My sense is that this may well be linked to the idea of learning as 'content delivery' into children and young people's memories. If we see learning as an interaction instead that will help with engagement.

Looks like an expansive view of #Oracy that includes multiple forms of communication is in the Curriculum review! Thanks @voice21oracy.bsky.social for your rapid response. Coffee ready for reading the whole thing!

@davidbenshannon.bsky.social hi

Forgiven!

Just over a year ago now our CEO Adam recorded this podcast for the @oracycommission.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3aOL...

@realgeoffbarton.bsky.social great to hear you speak today at National Drama Primary conference. Wonderful day exploring the connections between #drama and #oracy.

Could you spend a couple of minutes nominating us for £5K? Every penny counts and £5k is 500000 pennies! #Children #Communication #Confidence #Creativity culture.movementforgood.com?utm_source=e...

@journalces.bsky.social 👋

@ruthchurchilldower.bsky.social welcome to blue sky!

Spikey the hedgehog is having another great day at the induction of more schools working to their Speech Bubbles programmes this year, led by Adam Power-Annand, our CEO. We're at CLPE (Centre for Literacy in Primary Education) today and Half Moon Theatre and Immediate Theatre this week as well.

Thank you Garfield Weston Foundation for funding us this and next academic year as we deliver our Speech Bubbles programme in schools across the UK. This enables us to reach more children with communication needs; development their #confidence, #communication, #creativity and bring a little #joy!

Adam Annand, our CEO, is with our partner Bristol Old Vic for the induction day to start of their Speech Bubbles programme this year. Looking forward to another great year with the wonderful drama practitioners and TAs in Bristol #children #confidence, #communication, #creativity #joy

Great article on #BBCRadio4 #WomensHour on accent bias.

amazing to work with @khawlabadwan.bsky.social @wardasworld.bsky.social @davidbenshannon.bsky.social Vishnu Nair, Christina MacRae, Rachel Holmes, Rosie Flewitt and Ruth Churchill Dower in our big, interdisciplinary and compassionate editorial team

So proud to have contributed!

Great to Bee here #GreaterManchester

Adam Annand is up with our partners- @m6theatre.bsky.social, North West Drama, Peoplescape, Oldham Theatre Workshop and schools in Greater Manchester today for their Speech Bubbles induction, starting another year building #children's #confidence, #communication, #creativity and having some #fun!

All 👍

@dysphasiapv.bsky.social 👋

Over the next two weeks we will be in #Bristol #Truro #London #Hertfordshire and #Kent with our start of the year training days. #Manchester first with @m6theatre.bsky.social #OldhamTheatreWorkshop #peoplescape and #NorthWestDrama

@damsoned.bsky.social thanks for repost!!!

We are absolutely delighted to share the Paul Hamlyn Foundation are continuing to fund Speech Bubbles for a further four years!! We are so pleased this support will enable us to continue our work supporting #children with #communication needs in #joyful #confidencebuilding #drama interventions.

@dalia-l-g.bsky.social 👋

Great meet up, #BetterTogether

Adam Annand, our CEO, is at the Speech, Language and Communication Alliance meeting today, working together to have a significant impact on important policy issues for #children and young people with #speech and #language #challenges. speechandlanguage.org.uk/about-us/spe...

@drzoebaker.bsky.social 👋

We are pleased to share our impact report for the Speech Bubbles programme across the UK - another year of great results! Thank you to all our partners for their hard work!: www.speechbubbles.org.uk/research-rep... #drama #communication #speechandlanguage #joy

At the end of last term Adam, our CEO, and Donna, one of the TAs working on Speech Bubbles, had a conversation about Speech Bubbles from her point of view. Listen to this gem of a conversation here: www.speechbubbles.org.uk/blog-posts/s... #drama #communication #speechandlanguage #joy

We are looking to commission a #visual #artist to help us with creating images for our website and marketing materials which illustrate our work with children - please take a look, share, apply!: www.speechbubbles.org.uk/recruitment

@persistenttheatre.bsky.social 👋

As we gear up to re-start our programmes in the next school year, Lizzie, our General Manager, has been reflecting on her personal experience and why we do what we do: www.speechbubbles.org.uk/blog-posts/l... #communication #childrensdevelopment #education #slcn #drama #neurodivergence

As we gear up to re-start our programmes in the next school year, Lizzie, our General Manager, has been reflecting on her personal experience and why we do what we do: www.speechbubbles.org.uk/blog-posts/l... #communication #childrensdevelopment #education #slcn #drama #neurodivergence

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@lizjestico.bsky.social 👋

Find out a little more about what Speech Bubbles and our partners did in the academic year 2024-2025 by looking at our annual report!: www.speechbubbles.org.uk/research-reports/speech-bubbles-annual-report-2024-2025 #speechlanguageandcommunication #drama #children #oracy #slcn #joy

@rbizzario.bsky.social thanks for repost!

As #Schools and #ArtsEd organisations get ready for the new year its time to check your website and social media. Are the images safe for use in the age of #AI. Read the blog below and check resources on @nspcc.bsky.social website.

@communi-con.bsky.social 👋

www.anewdirection.org.uk/blog/protect... Can we safely post participants images in the age of #GenerativeAI? If you work in #Education #TheArts or #CommunityPractice and have a marketing/communications role then please read this post!

www.anewdirection.org.uk/blog/protect... Can we safely post participants images in the age of #GenerativeAI? If you work in #Education #TheArts or #CommunityPractice and have a marketing/communications role then please read this post!

“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” Oscar Wilde Every week in Speech Bubbles a child's story is turned into theatre, acted by a company of peers! Image Liz Atkin

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@pedalcam.bsky.social 👋 we love playful learning and research!

@sarah595.bsky.social 👋

As well as more formal feedback and evaluation this year we asked school staff to tell us one thing that they would like us to know! (Using the feedback cards we use on the project). These are from our #GreaterManchester evaluation.

@roddi33.bsky.social 👋

@voice21oracy.bsky.social on a day when #Oracy and Speech Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) are making the headlines I am analysing the feedback from schools on the impact of Speech Bubbles. Teachers report...

@tomrank.bsky.social 👋