What a joyful ten days of celebrating young voices from around the world! We’ve had poetry, prose reading, drama monologues and public speaking with entries ranging from 5-18 years old. All of the students have now received their graded certificates and reports and should be feeling very proud of themselves. From the youngest students reciting …
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There is excitement in the Noisy Classroom HQ today as the inaugural International Oratory Festival begins. Over the next ten days, we will see students give speeches and perform poems, prose and monologues in classes ranging from under-7s to 16-18s. The Noisy Classroom team are looking forward to hearing and celebrating all of these young …
The Noisy Classroom team have had a wonderful time working with ten schools from the Bellevue Education Trust over the last few months. We have run CPD sessions for their teachers, run a training day for their sixth formers to equip them to be judges chairs and done online workshops with year five and six …
We are delighted to launch the first ever International Oratory Festival. This online festival will bring together students aged 5-18 from countries all over the globe to celebrate public speaking, acting, poetry and prose. To find out more and enter visit the new Oratory Festival website
Alison and Debbie have greatly enjoyed working on a project with the British Library called “Speaking Out” This is a terrific resource that the library has put together with digitised recordings and transcripts of speeches throughout history and articles on oratory. Noisy Classroom has worked with the British Library to select five speeches to analyse, …
We were delighted to support Dukes Education as they held their inaugural Debating Festival at Eaton Square School yesterday, involving twelve of their schools. Noisy Classroom trainers Jack and Daniele ran workshops for the pupils on the rules of debate, forming arguments, rebuttal and style. Inter-school debates can be a marvellous focus for oracy in …
Noisy Classroom have greatly enjoyed with Coca-Cola Hellenic on their innovative corporate training project as part of their annual Learn Fest this September. Director, Debbie Newman, ran a session introducing debating skills and their relevance to the corporate environment. She then trained eight volunteers who took part in live debates for their colleagues. The debates …
The Inspire Programme at St John’s College Oxford does terrific work around access and outreach so we were delighted to get a commission from them to develop online public speaking videos for their 2021 digtal summer school. Noisy Classroom team member, Harold Raitt is a St John’s alumnus and our resident digital and filmaking expert …
We are continuing to offer online tuition to individuals and small groups and we are now taking bookings for the summer holidays. Whether you want an hour a week or a more intensive course, we’d be delighted to work with you so get in touch. We are currently working with children as young as eight …
We are so pleased to be back in Enfield working with primary schools on their debating. Heather has run two workshops and a competition heats day so far and the semi-finals are being held at Wilbury School next week. So far the pupils have debated whether reptiles make good pets, whether superheroes are good role …
