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 …
The PiXL Up For Debate Regional Championships are underway. Before Easter we held rounds in Bristol, Harrow, Manchester and York. In April we had a round in Ibstock, before our final round in Northampton in early May. Over 200 schools entered the competition, but only 8 will go through to the masterclasses and finals day. …
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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 …
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 …
