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 …
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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The London primary debating championships are off to a great start. Enfield have started their heats and had a cracking semi-finals this week. Lambeth held a workshop for their primary schools last week, ably run by the debating society of Dunraven Senior School. The schools will come back at the end of March to compete. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Today we ran our first teacher CPD of the new academic year for the PiXL Up For Debate Programme. Enthusiasm was high at Westminster Central Hall and we are looking forward to running 5 more sessions across the country, with the next one in Cardiff. PiXL schools who sign up to Up For Debate receive …
Noisy Classroom are pleased to announce that we are now hosting a new UK Schools’ Debating Calendar and mailing list. We have taken on this role after we were approached by a steering group of teachers hoping to widen access and opportunities for schools across the UK. Do please sign up for the mailing list, …
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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 …
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 …
