We are so excited to welcome 23 students and their teachers from India this week. The students are here on a debating tour of England and we will be running workshops for them in London, Cambridge and Essex with partner English schools. We are especially looking forward to the event being held in the Cambridge …
Registration is now open for the 2024 Cicero Cup. Sign up your school for our Junior School Debating Programme for children aged 8-11 and get the debate started! With resources and CPD included and options for pupil workshops and internal competitions available, we hope to have your school involved. Click here to find out more.
‘Tis the season of the Debate Challenge! There have been some marvellous events in Manchester, Reading, Hampshire, Enfield, Surrey and Kilburn. Challenges run with BPET, Bellevue Education, Enfield schools and St Patrick’s Centre of Education Excellence have seen primary and secondary students represent their schools in inter-school competitions. We continue to be so impressed with …
Wow! The team at Noisy Classroom have been blown away by the talent, hard work and bravery on display for the last fortnight. The International Oratory Festival has seen students aged 6-18 perform poems and monologues, read aloud and deliver speeches and present the news. All online, in a huge range of time zones and …
The first Cicero Cup finals day was a huge success! Linklaters were wonderful hosts for the day and the children did very well speaking in the large auditorium. Our judges Baroness Blower, Laurence Lee, Jack Gamble and our Linklaters volunteers inspired the pupils by talking about how they used debating skills in politics, journalism, advocacy …
We have now finished all of the heats for the Cicero Cup. We have been so impressed with the quality of debate across all of the heats. It was a hard job for our judges to pick these eight teams to win their rounds: Broomfield House School St Stephen’s Primary Eaton Square Prep School St …
It has been a terrific experience to work with sixth-formers at five schools training them to be Debate Champions as part of a University of Northampton outreach project. The project also involved developing written and video resources that the students can use to become debate leaders in their schools. Good luck to all the schools …
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Yesterday pupils from Ibstock Place School, St Stephen’s Primary School, Bromfield House School, Garfield Primary School and Notting Hill and Ealing Junior School made debating history in the first ever heats of the first Cicero Cup! The standard of debate was superb as the teams addressed the motions “This house would abolish the monarchy” and …
We are looking forward to the first heats of the Cicero Cup next week. They are being hosted at Ibstock Place School and eight teams will debate for the chance to go through to the finals. All the teams will debate one prepared motion – either on abolishing the monarchy or on sending humans to …
We are excited to announce that registration is open for the second International Oratory Festival. This global online celebration of speech and drama was so joyful last year and we are looking forward to an even bigger and better event this year! Look out for our new categories – news reporting, Shakespearean sonnets and original …
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