Debating pupil workshops

Debating is a terrific way to extend your pupils’ confident, persuasive speaking, careful, active listening and reasoned, critical thinking.

Debating is a terrific way to extend your pupils’ confident, persuasive speaking, careful, active listening and reasoned, critical thinking. 

Our beginner workshops introduce a class to parliamentary debating. Full of games and activities to build their confidence, the workshops end with a full debate. We can choose the topics or liaise with you to theme them around your curriculum or school priorities.

We’ve debated suffragettes, evacuees, fairytales and (currently the most popular), should children be allowed phones?

If your students aren’t beginners, get in touch to find out how one of our champion coaches can extend their skills further. 

Debating is a terrific way to extend your pupils’ confident, persuasive speaking, careful, active listening and reasoned, critical thinking. 

Our beginner workshops introduce a class to parliamentary debating. Full of games and activities to build their confidence, the workshops end with a full debate.

We can choose the topics or liaise with you to theme them around your curriculum or school priorities. Topics around social media and British values are often popular choices. 

If your students aren’t beginners, get in touch to find out how one of our champion coaches can extend their skills further. 

Email debbie@noisyclassroom.com to discuss your school’s needs and make a booking.

An excellent way to engage students with the British democratic process and current affairs while improving their critical oracy and debating skills.

An excellent way to engage students with the British democratic process and current affairs while improving their critical oracy and debating skills. Students are assigned political parties and portfolios and debate a number of topical issues during these popular workshop days.

Email debbie@noisyclassroom.com to discuss your school’s needs and make a booking.

A brilliant way to engage with global issues and build discussion and debate skills.

A brilliant way to engage with global issues and build discussion and debate skills.

Model United Nations involves assigning each student a country and then giving them thorny global issues and a structure to attempt to form consensus for addressing the problems.

A simplified version for upper key stage two chooses an issue such as “should everyone in the world stop eating meat?” and helps pupils understand a variety of global perspectives and contexts. 

A brilliant way to engage with global issues and build discussion and debate skills.

Model United Nations involves assigning each student a country and then giving them thorny global issues and a structure to attempt to form consensus for addressing the problems.

Email debbie@noisyclassroom.com to discuss your school’s needs and make a booking.

Debating is a great way to help students to gain confidence in their own oracy, deepen their knowledge of texts, improve their critical thinking skills, develop structured and compelling arguments, compare and evaluate different perspectives, and improve their listening skills. Following our partnership with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust for Shakespeare Week, we developed our Debating Shakespeare workshops. Workshops we have delivered include:

  • Is Caliban a monster or misunderstood? 
  • Are Romeo and Juliet good role models?
  • Does Much Ado About Nothing teach us that deception is always wrong? 

Tell us your Shakespeare play (or indeed any other literary text) and we will put together a workshop for your pupils at Key Stage 3, 4 or post 16.

Email debbie@noisyclassroom.com to discuss your school’s needs and make a booking.