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January 2022
ESU Secondary School Exchange Webinar
Are you interested in spending a whole academic year at a US high school during your gap year? The ESU’s Secondary School Exchange offers students the opportunity to spend a gap year at an American high school at the end of Year 13. It’s a fantastic chance for students to spend time abroad broadening their horizons, making new friends and continuing their education free of exam pressures. Students return with increased confidence, a better understanding of diverse perspectives…
Find out more »February 2022
Ouse Valley Branch: ‘Why oracy skills are vital to children’s development’ with Professor Neil Mercer
'Why oracy skills are vital to children's development' Professor Neil Mercer (University of Cambridge, and Director, Oracy Cambridge) in conversation with Barbara Firth, governor, the English-Speaking Union. Research has shown that children’s spoken language experience is very important for the development of their reasoning skills, their subject learning and their life chances in general. It is also known that many children’s out-of-school lives will not provide the kinds of experience they need to develop a full repertoire of spoken language…
Find out more »March 2022
Lincolnshire Branch Event: Educating for the Future – An Evening with Sir Jon Coles
The Lincolnshire Branch of the ESU are linking with Dartmouth House to host an online evening with Sir John Coles . Respected educationalist and Chief Executive of United Learning Sir Jon Coles will be joining Matthew Christmas, Head of Engagement at the English-Speaking Union, to discuss some of the key questions in education today and to consider how we can future-proof our students’ education. Among the topics under discussion will be: The impacts of Covid on learners and what the…
Find out more »May 2022
ESU-Churchill Public Speaking Competition Grand Finals 2022
The prestigious ESU-Churchill Public Speaking Competition, sponsored by the International Churchill Society, is the largest such contest in England and Wales, with around 400 teams (each comprising a speaker, questioner and a chairperson). The different roles allow students to practice and excel in different skill sets, and the competition’s unique format, which pairs the speaker from one school with the chair and questioner of another, encourages quick thinking and relationship building. Thirteen teams have succeeded through almost five months of…
Find out more »June 2022
Zoom Event: The ESU Friendly International Forum hosted by ESU Poland
The ESU Friendly International Forum is an informal forum aimed at exchanging views, with an underlying aim of building future collaborations and initiatives. The host of the FIF moves between different ESUs internationally and each forum centres around a topic selected by the hosting nation. The topic of this fourth FIF, hosted by our Polish colleagues, will be: ‘What motivates us to promote public speaking in our respective countries?’ The ESU has always been a conduit to share and exchange…
Find out more »Ouse Valley Branch: Primary Public Speaking Competition
Ouse Valley branch will be holding a Primary Public Speaking Competition on Wednesday, 15 June at Bedford Prep School.
Find out more »Ouse Valley Branch: Primary Debate Academy
Ouse Valley branch will be holding a Primary Debate Academy on Thursday, 30 June at the University of Bedford, Polhill campus.
Find out more »October 2022
The ESU International Council Meeting 2022
The English-Speaking Union International Council Meeting 2022 is being held in Karachi, Pakistan from Thursday, 27 to Monday, 31 October 2022. The ICM is a formal annual meeting of International ESUs from across the globe, and ESU members and guests who wish to attend would receive a very warm welcome from ESU Pakistan. The package cost for delegates is £450 per attendee, and £410 per attendee for their guests. If you would like further information and to book a place…
Find out more »January 2023
Climate Crisis Roadmap: Where We Are and Where We’re Going
The climate crisis poses an existential threat to us all, yet the complexity of the issues, the constantly changing environmental policies and the multiple sources of information available to us can make it difficult to grasp the scale and trajectory of the crisis. In this first event of the Climate Deep Dialogue you will hear a lecture from a leading expert in the field of climate science and leave with a clear roadmap of where we are in the climate…
Find out more »September 2023
Salisbury Branch: Wolfe Frank ‘The Voice of Doom’ with Paul Hooley
In 2021 Salisbury Civic Society asked Paul Hooley to unveil a Blue Plaque at the former home of Wolfe Frank in Mere, Wiltshire. Salisbury and Wiltshire branch will be joined by Paul Hooley to discuss Wolfe Frank as part of their lecture series. Involved in proceedings from the start of the Nuremberg war crimes trials, Wolfe Frank interpreted the judge’s opening statements and announced the sentences to the Nazi war criminals. From manuscripts found 25 years following his death, we…
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