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 …
We held a very successful whole school oracy CPD session for staff at Ellesmere Port Catholic High School last week. The session looked at current oracy research, best practice from other schools, oracy strategies for the classroom, and ways to embed debating within lessons. Staff attending really got stuck in, trying out activities and engaging …
Over 100 schools have already registered for this year’s Up For Debate programme and there is still time to enter. The programme gives you access to resources for curricular and co-curricular debating including a fully-resourced scheme of work for year nine English. There is also training for teachers and the opportunity to enter a team …
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On Friday July 14th Noisy Classroom hosted a Debating Celebration Day at The Beacon School, near Sutton. This event was the culmination of the debating project we have been running in 11 schools across the North Downs Partnership. Over forty students came together for the celebration day. Teams from local primary schools debated the place of …
On Tuesday Noisy Classroom hosted the ninth annual London Primary Debating Championships, in partnership with New College of the Humanities at their fantastic Bedford Square building. It was a brilliant day of debating, with teams from Hackney, Hillingdon, Islington, Lambeth, Newham, and Wandsworth. Teams debated the merits of learning a foreign language, and the possibility of …
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 …
Ibstock Place School in Wandsworth and Swakeleys School in Hillingdon have supported primary debating in their boroughs as part of the London Primary Debating Championships. Pupils from the secondary schools judged primary debates in their boroughs ahead of the London finals. The London finals are taking place at the New College of the Humanities on …
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The 8 schools who will be taking part in the PiXL Up For Debate Final came to London for a residential debating masterclass trip on May 12th and 13th. Our @PiXLUpforDebate finalists have a message for you! Thank you @noisyclassroom – until July! pic.twitter.com/J7znch0Mf7 — PiXLEdge (@PiXLEdge) May 13, 2017 They took part in workshops that …
