St Kitts International Academy Debating & Public Speaking Club - 23rd September 2025

This was a very impressive session and again super to see some new faces joining the group – and our longstanding members making such tremendous contributions.

For those new members we covered a brief introduction to debating and key body language skills and evidence to support argumentation.

Our skill of the week turned to POIs – and how best to use/implement interjections within a debating setting.

Our warm-up questions asked        

‘If you could live in another country, where would you pick and why?’ &

‘Is the mind the same as the brain?’

On living in another country we had a diverse range of options given, from South Korea, to Japan, Italy, the USA, Canada, Thailand and the UK.

 Our newsround took in Trump’s UN appearance and latest announcements, a NASA moon mission, FIFA World Cup 2026 and Freedom Day / National Heroes Day in St Kitts.

Debating motions covered the topics/questions:

·         ‘This House would ban school uniform’

·         ‘This House believes children should do chores at home’

As ever we voted before and after the set-piece debates.

School uniform had the group divided 50/50 at both tellings; whilst, the motion was carried in the case of chores at home for children – ‘life skills’ being a key point.

A great session – very well done all!