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Are your students confident communicators?

Talk The Talk delivers a range of in-school, confident communication workshops and teacher CPD.

Our student workshops are fast-paced and engaging oracy masterclasses that develop students’ core oracy skills, spoken confidence and employability value. We offer four workshop programmes:

Talk About Transition: This workshop engages students with oracy-based activities and strategies to develop greater self-confidence and resilience and support a successful transition to secondary school. Suitable for students transitioning from primary to secondary phases

Talk About Communication: A high-impact and engaging confident communication workshop that develops students’ individual oracy skills and spoken confidence. Suitable for young people aged 9 to 18 (UK equivalent school years 5 to 13)

Talk About Communication Plus: Builds upon Talk About Communication to develop students’ skills and abilities to communicate confidently, constructively and cooperatively in ‘real world’ group talk situations such as debating, negotiating and event planning. Suitable for young people aged 12 to 18 (UK equivalent school years 8 to 13)

Talk About The Future: Leads students to identify their unique employability skill set and then communicate it effectively using developed oracy strategies, skills and confidence. Ideal for young people aged 15 to 18 (UK equivalent school years 11 to 13)

Talk The Talk Teacher CPD: Our Talk The Talk – Teacher CPD inspires teachers and staff working with students, to embed rich oracy opportunities in their pedagogy and embed a wider, consistent approach to oracy across the school. Get in touch to find out more about how we could support your staff with our Teacher CPD. You find out more about our Talk The Talk Teacher CPD on our dedicated page by clicking here: Teacher CPD

Workshop Aims

Engage in rich oracy development opportunities
Develop spoken communication confidence
Explore and apply enhanced oracy skills
Learn how to structure short talks or presentations
Apply critical thinking continue developing oracy skills

How do we deliver our workshops?

Our team of expert trainers deliver our workshops, face-to-face in your school
Workshops are mostly delivered in a classroom space over a full or half day (5hrs or 2.5hrs total contact time respectively)
By experienced, UK DBS checked trainers
In group sizes of up to 30
By as many trainers as are required to cover larger cohorts, whilst maintaining our 1:30 ratio
We can also deliver our workshops with bespoke timings and formats to exactly suit your students and context. Just get in touch to discuss your requirements with us

Talk The Talk - Engagement and Impact 2023-24

Students Reported Feeling...

47%

growth in confidence when speaking in front of other people

55%

growth in awareness of the oracy skills required for effective communication

33%

growth in confidence when talking about their unique skill set in an interview situation

In 2023-24 Talk The Talk:

worked with 37,120 UK students

delivered 1607 high-impact workshops

worked in 469 schools

Our Impact Reports and Evaluations from the last few academic years can be found on our dedicated page by clicking here.

Impact and Evaluation

Testimonials

“Excellent. All stages of the workshop were scaffolded, modelled and therefore accessible. The trainer was excellent at being patient with the students and giving tangible feedback. Students have definitely improved their speaking and confidence after the session.”

Year 8, Swanlea School,
London

“The workshop was fantastic and helped the children to become more confident as speakers and huge improvements were seen throughout. The trainer was excellent with the group and provided valuable direct and individualised feedback.”

Year 6, Carrdus School,
Oxfordshire

“Lovely manner with the students, building their confidence and resilience effectively. Students engaged in all activities and a positive learning environment throughout.”

Year 11, Shaftesbury High Special School,
Middlesex

“This Talk The Talk workshop is well designed to give students clearly defined steps for constructing compelling speeches. The trainers were warm and engaging, successfully creating a safe environment where students felt comfortable stepping outside of their comfort zones to practise their public speaking skills.”

Year 10, Channing School,
London

“Excellent! Not enough focus is placed on oracy and communication skills, so it was great for these students to have intensive support with this. The workshop was thoroughly engaging and delivered in such a way that the students really understood the value of it. I am sure this will be of huge benefit to them in the future. Thank you!”

Year 12, Richard Hale School,
Hertfordshire

“The CPD delivered was outstanding. Many teachers felt it was one of the best inset days we’ve had and they feel great motivation as a result of the tips and guidance.”

Staff, Ladybridge High School,
Bolton

“The trainer was excellent with the pupils, very warm and engaging. I really liked that he varied the content depending on the response of the group and was also hugely adaptable with pupils with additional needs.”

Year 7, Royal Grammar School,
Newcastle

“I overheard the students commenting on how good the session was – they became more relaxed and enthusiastic as time went on, engaging really well with the trainer. Excellent!”

Year 12 & 13, St Mary's School Gerrards Cross,
Buckinghamshire

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Talk The Talk - Confident Communication For Life!

Oracy workshops for International Schools