After first rounds across the country and semi-finals online, we are delighted to announce the eight schools who have made it though to the Cicero Cup Finals 2024! Bancroft’s Prep SchoolBroomfield House SchoolEastfield AcademyGreen Meadow Primary SchoolJames Allen’s Girls SchoolSt Mary’s Catholic Primary School, ElthamSt Stephen’s CE Primary School, Shepherd’s BushYateley Manor School Star Speakers …
After the success of its inaugural year, the International Oratory Festival is back! All of the same categories will return from last year with different age groups from 5-18 for public speaking, acting, prose reading and poetry recital. Following consultation with last year’s entrants, we are excited to add three new categories to the Festival …
International Oratory Festival 2023 – registration open! Read More »
After the success of its inaugural year, the International Oratory Festival is back! All of the same categories will return from last year with different age groups from 5-18 for public speaking, acting, prose reading and poetry recital. Following consultation with last year’s entrants, we are excited to add three new categories to the Festival …
We were so pleased to support Dukes Education with their inaugural debate festival involving 12 of their schools. Noisy Classroom trainers Daniele and Jack attended the festival at Eaton Square School and ran workshops for the students introducing them to the rules of debating and looking at forming arguments, rebuttal and style. Inter-school debates are …
The first three teacher CPD sessions for this year’s Up For Debate Programme have happened in London, Peterborough and Manchester. Enthusiastic teachers shared ideas and increased their skills and understanding of curricular and co-curricular debating. There are still spaces on the next two sessions in Birmingham on 11 December and in London on 21 January. …
After a truly wonderful day of debating at Eton College today, Laurence Jackson School are the first PiXL Up For Debate Champions. They reached the finals by arguing in debates on assisted suicide, increased use of referenda and whether sports starts are good role models. For the Grand Final debate, they proposed that university education …
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The regional heats of the Noisy Classroom PiXL Up For Debate tournament are now all finished. Many thanks to Blundell’s School, Alleyn’s School, the University of Nottingham and the University of Sunderland for being wonderful hosts for our regional rounds. Congratulations to the eight teams who won through to the National Finals from rounds held …
Final regional round of Up for Debate held at the University of Sunderland Read More »
The PiXL Club is addressing oracy in schools and they starting by focusing on debating. This year the Noisy Classroom will work closely with them to pilot a new national schools debate programme, Up For Debate. The programme will involve training teachers, providing resources for using debate in the classroom and setting up debate clubs, …
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