It’s now official, with the election of a Labour government in the UK, oracy is now the Next Big Thing about to preoccupy schools in England. (England rather than the UK as a whole, because authori…

Have you ever seen a ‘streaky tenrec’? Probably not. For pupils sitting the key stage 2 SATs reading assessment, they likely met the tenrec and the wildlife of Madagascar for the first time.  The fir...