The current national focus on oracy is due to a growing recognition of the academic benefits of speaking and listening and increasing evidence of the benefits to social mobility, mental health, employability and civic engagement. Whether you are getting started on your oracy journey or looking to deepen the culture of quality oracy provision in your school, our exciting workshops for pupils are the perfect counterpart to our CPD for teachers.
Full of fun confidence-building games, these workshops develop the skills of speaking in public.
Full of fun confidence-building games, these workshops develop the skills of speaking in public. They cover voice projection and vocal variety, body language, structure, language and audience awareness. A brilliant way to give students a boost with this valuable life skill.
Full of fun confidence-building games, these workshops develop the skills of speaking in public. They cover voice projection and vocal variety, body language, structure, language and audience awareness. A brilliant way to give students a boost with this valuable life skill.
Our main workshop is fully interactive in smaller groups, but we can also run presentations on public speaking skills for whole cohorts.
Email debbie@noisyclassroom.com to discuss your school’s needs and make a booking.
Debating is a terrific way to extend your pupils’ confident, persuasive speaking, careful, active listening and reasoned, critical thinking.
Debating is a terrific way to extend your pupils’ confident, persuasive speaking, careful, active listening and reasoned, critical thinking.
Our beginner workshops introduce a class to parliamentary debating. Full of games and activities to build their confidence, the workshops end with a full debate. We can choose the topics or liaise with you to theme them around your curriculum or school priorities.
We’ve debated suffragettes, evacuees, fairytales and (currently the most popular), should children be allowed phones?
If your students aren’t beginners, get in touch to find out how one of our champion coaches can extend their skills further.
Debating is a terrific way to extend your pupils’ confident, persuasive speaking, careful, active listening and reasoned, critical thinking.
Our beginner workshops introduce a class to parliamentary debating. Full of games and activities to build their confidence, the workshops end with a full debate.
We can choose the topics or liaise with you to theme them around your curriculum or school priorities. Topics around social media and British values are often popular choices.
If your students aren’t beginners, get in touch to find out how one of our champion coaches can extend their skills further.
Email debbie@noisyclassroom.com to discuss your school’s needs and make a booking.
A joyful drama workshop designed to build students’ skills in spontaneous speaking, character formation and working in groups.
A joyful drama workshop designed to build students skills in spontaneous speaking, character formation and working in groups. Fully practical and interactive and a great fun way to build confidence in oracy.
A joyful drama workshop designed to build students skills in spontaneous speaking, character formation and working in groups. Fully practical and interactive and a great fun way to build confidence in oracy.
Email debbie@noisyclassroom.com to discuss your school’s needs and make a booking.
Exciting days of impactful activities, to develop general oracy skills, or explore curriculum content.
We work with whole cohorts or identified groups. Schools bring us in to:
Email debbie@noisyclassroom.com to discuss your school’s needs and make a booking.
An excellent way to engage students with the British democratic process and current affairs while improving their critical oracy and debating skills.
An excellent way to engage students with the British democratic process and current affairs while improving their critical oracy and debating skills. Students are assigned political parties and portfolios and debate a number of topical issues during these popular workshop days.
Email debbie@noisyclassroom.com to discuss your school’s needs and make a booking.
A brilliant way to engage with global issues and build discussion and debate skills.
A brilliant way to engage with global issues and build discussion and debate skills.
Model United Nations involves assigning each student a country and then giving them thorny global issues and a structure to attempt to form consensus for addressing the problems.
A simplified version for upper key stage two chooses an issue such as “should everyone in the world stop eating meat?” and helps pupils understand a variety of global perspectives and contexts.
A brilliant way to engage with global issues and build discussion and debate skills.
Model United Nations involves assigning each student a country and then giving them thorny global issues and a structure to attempt to form consensus for addressing the problems.
Email debbie@noisyclassroom.com to discuss your school’s needs and make a booking.
A rich range of activities preparing learners for interviews in admissions processes and future workplaces.
No mock-interviews or pre-preparing answers; just lots of games which involve putting pupils on the spot and helping them to think quickly and respond confidently. A very popular workshop with the pupils!
We offer both interview skills workshops and mock-interviews for the workplace and higher education, including Oxbridge mock-interviews.
Email debbie@noisyclassroom.com to discuss your school’s needs and make a booking.
Debating is a great way to help students to gain confidence in their own oracy, deepen their knowledge of texts, improve their critical thinking skills, develop structured and compelling arguments, compare and evaluate different perspectives, and improve their listening skills. Following our partnership with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust for Shakespeare Week, we developed our Debating Shakespeare workshops. Workshops we have delivered include:
Tell us your Shakespeare play (or indeed any other literary text) and we will put together a workshop for your pupils at Key Stage 3, 4 or post 16.
Email debbie@noisyclassroom.com to discuss your school’s needs and make a booking.