Debating competitions

Up For Debate Finals Day 2019

On Wednesday July 10th, the 8 finalist schools in the PiXL Up For Debate competition gathered in London to compete to become winners of this year’s competition. The national final was kindly hosted by Queen Mary University London and during the preliminary rounds the finalists debated a variety of topics, ranging from whether the UK …

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PiXL Up For Debate Regional Championships 2019 are off to a great start

The PiXL Up For Debate Regional Championships are underway. We have held rounds in Newbury, York, and London, and after Easter we have rounds in Nottingham and Northampton. Over 200 schools entered the competition, but only 8 will go through to the masterclasses and finals day. Teams have debated a wide variety of topics, including banning …

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PiXL Six are Up For Debate

We are very excited that after three successful years of running Up For Debate with KS3 students, we are now expanding the programme into KS5. Debbie has already been offering debate training to teachers through the PiXL network of conferences and there will be more to come. In addition, Noisy Classroom is currently developing resources …

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UoN Debating Club Celebration Day

Yesterday we ran a celebration day for the six schools taking part in the University of Northampton debating club project. We were so impressed to hear about how all the schools have taken steps to embed debating in their lessons and as an extra-curricular activity. The schools took part in a friendly competition, debating everything …

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UoN Debating Club

On Tuesday October 30th, in partnership with the University of Northampton, we worked with 6 local secondary schools to launch the UoN Debating Club. Six teachers and 30 students came for a day of introductory debating training, to help them set up their own debating clubs back at school. Alice worked with the teachers, to …

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Up For Debate Finals Day 2018

On Wednesday July 11th, the 8 finalist schools in the PiXL Up For Debate competition gathered in Oxford to compete to become winners of this year’s competition. The preliminary rounds were kindly hosted by Jesus College and finalists debated a variety of topics, ranging from whether non-violent offenders should be imprisoned, to whether teacher’s should …

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Up For Debate Finalists 2018

After yesterday’s final regional Championship, kindly hosted by Northampton University, we can now reveal this year’s 8 National Finalists. They are: Hinchingbrooke  School Pershore High School Ribblesdale High School Redden Court School Sion Manning Catholic Girls’ School Swakeley’s School for Girls Welland Park Academy The Wensleydale School A huge congratulations to our finalists! We look …

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