We are so delighted to welcome Alison Coates to the Noisy Classroom team as Learning and Development Manager. We have worked in partnership with Alison during her time at the English Speaking Board so she is already very familiar with Noisy Classroom programmes. Alison is one of our most experienced Up For Debate judges and …
The first three teacher CPD sessions for this year’s Up For Debate Programme have happened in London, Peterborough and Manchester. Enthusiastic teachers shared ideas and increased their skills and understanding of curricular and co-curricular debating. There are still spaces on the next two sessions in Birmingham on 11 December and in London on 21 January. …
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 …
PiXL Up For Debate Regional Championships 2019 are off to a great start Read More »
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
PiXL Up For Debate Regional Championships 2018 have started Read More »
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 …
