Debate Hub

With the new academic year fast approaching, we are re-publishing one of our most popular episodes. In the first half, Kate and Michael discuss some of the key principles to running a successful debate club. Remember our website debatehub.co.uk is jam packed with lesson plans, debate topics and instructional videos to help your club thrive! 

Michael sits down with Zoe Brass to discuss the global issues oracy project ran recently at South Hampstead High School. 

In this episode, two of our year 12s discuss their experience of running debate clubs for year 5s in some of our local state schools. 

In part two of our bumper long episode about public speaking competitions, Michael & Kate discuss the importance of the 'compere' role and all the skills it brings, as well as why we let students have complete free reign on topic choice. 

In the first half of this bumper episode, Michael & Kate discuss the format Debate Hub uses for our public speaking competitions, the reasons we designed it this way and how schools can replicate either our model or the principles behind it. 

The South Hampstead Oracy conference takes place July 6th 2024. In this episode, Michael and Kate give a brief overview of what the conference is, who it's aimed at and why you should attend. 

In this episode we sit down with Cesca Reynolds, who runs the 'development squads' wing of England's national debate team, as well as her own organisation 'Impart.' Development squads is designed to help more state school students trial and speak for the England team. You can apply here: - https://forms.gle/ZURg2py7m4SiKxGw5

Cesca can be contacted on [email protected] for development squads questions or [email protected] for questions about her organisation. More info on impart can be found here: Impart UK | Empowering and Educating 

Zoe Paramour is the author of 3 education books: The Writing Book, The Grammar Book & How to be an Outstanding Primary Middle Leader.  She has also been instrumental in the debating programme at South Hampstead Junior School and has a lot of thoughts on primary school oracy. 

An in-depth discussion about the Oxbridge application process: admissions tests, what they really want to read in your personal statement and the dreaded interviews. How can debating help students prepare and what else can teachers and students do to maximise their chances of admission? 

Part 2 of our bumper length discussion about the most important aspects of running a great debate club