KEY FACTS
- What: Year-long debating programme
- Age: 11-18
- Cost: £3,600 + VAT, 90 per cent subsidies available for schools with high FSM or EAL
- When: September 2019 start
- Delivery: One-to-one consultancy, teacher training and full lesson plans
IN BRIEF
Debate-Able is an innovative, one-year, comprehensive debating programme designed to help you to create a sustainable culture of oracy across the curriculum, through debate in your school or academy.
It includes all necessary lesson plans; dedicated one-to-one consultancy; teacher CPD training and on-going ESU teacher support. Participating schools also benefit from access to ESU’s debating expertise and competitions, as well as opportunities to link with other Debate-Able schools in their community.
‘Increased verbal confidence has a significant impact on reading levels’
Teacher,
Sheffield Springs Academy
Why do it - student benefits
- Delivers demonstrable improvement in critical thinking and oracy skills
- Impacts wider literacy skills
- Improves English comprehension and provides practice in backing up arguments with examples
- Promotes spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) education
- Boosts confidence, teamwork and clarity of thought
- Improves employability
Why do it - teacher benefits
- Built around teacher development
- Encourages full-class participation
- Applicable for all year groups
- Meets National Curriculum requirement for students to use discussion and debate
- Helps deliver a ‘broad and balanced curriculum’- (requirement in new Ofsted inspection framework)
- Transferable lesson plans to encourage oracy and debate across the curriculum
- Opportunities to develop links with other Debate-Able schools within your community
- Helps with the training of students for debating competitions
Find out more
Questions?
If you have any questions or queries about Debate-Able please email julie.jackson@esu.org
Registered charity number: 273136