3-a-side with floor debate

This House believes schools should exclude bullies

KS3 pupils (11-15 years old) from the Beacon School in Surrey debate this motion using a 3-a-side format with a floor debate. The video on this page streams from YouTube. A few schools block YouTube; if yours is one of them, use the backup video link below. If neither of these videos work for you, …

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This House would lower the voting age to 12

14 year-old pupils from Bury St Edmunds debate an engaging politics motion in a 3-a-side format with floor debate.

This House believes that we should only eat food produced in Britain

There are lots of reasons why we might decide only to eat food from our own country, and patriotism is only one of them.

This House believes that the Olympics will be good for Hackney

A great example of a topical and geographically-specific topic from 2012; what similar motions might you set?

This House believes that kids can make a big difference to the environment

As part of the Linklaters Hackney Debate Challenge, primary school pupils from the borough debated whether young people can make a difference to the environment. There are two different versions of the same debate for you to compare, and our judges gave feedback too. As well as watching the videos of these debates, why not …

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