At the end of January Alice flew over to the South of Spain to deliver a whole-school oracy training day at Sunny View School, near Malaga. Sunny View is a British-curriculum school, teaching students right the way from age 3 – 18. The session discussed what oracy strategies and practices staff are already using, current …
Last week we were at St Mary’s Primary School in Stoke on Trent. We spent two days delivering debating workshops for all of the students in years five and six, and then all of the staff came together for a twilight CPD session focussing on the ways in which they can embed oracy and debating …
After launching the 3rd year of PiXL’s Up For Debate programme this Summer, we’ve been holding teacher training sessions across the country. Over 150 teachers have attended training sessions in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, London and Manchester. This year’s competition looks to be the biggest yet, with over 220 schools having registered so far… We …
Registration for the 2017-18 Up for Debate programme (run by the Noisy Classroom in association with the PiXL Edge) is now open. Access to resources is free for all schools which are members of PiXL Edge, and entry to our 2018 competition costs only £50 for those schools. Other schools who are members of the PiXL Club …
The 2017 World Speech Day will be taking place on Wednesday, March 15. Last year there were over 250 events in some 30 countries across the globe; this year events are planned to take place across 80 different countries! Each event involves some prepared speeches (lasting roughly 5 minutes) and also gives the audience the …
