St. Kitts International Academy Debating & Public Speaking Club - 29th April 2025

It was great to resume our Debating, Public Speaking & Interview club with St Kitts International Academy. 

For skills this week we continued to look at persuasive language in addition to conclusions. 

Our warm-up question asked:   

'If you had the chance to revolutionize your favourite hobby, how would you push the boundaries and create a different or unique experience?'

This took in video games, writing a fiction book, cricket and sketching amongst other examples. 

Our newsround focussed on:

• Elections in Trinidad and Tobago

• Satellites

• Youngest cricketer in the IPL

• Trump's 100 days

• Sweden

• Canada General Election 

Unseen work looked at an image of George Washington following his inauguration on 30th April 1789

We then divided into teams for our set-piece debates. The motions:

• ‘This House believes we should do homework’

• ‘This House believes that video games are better than board games’

• ‘This House would ban devices (iphones, ipads etc./computers) from bedrooms for children’

• ‘This House would ban junk food from schools’

• ‘This House would fine headphone dodgers'

• ‘This House believes that we should reduce our imports of the avocado (and other imported products) to help the environment’ 

In each case we worked on both sides of the argument, with voting before and after. It was super to see the groups grow in confidence as the session progressed with some compelling and extended argumentation. 

A super start - very well done all!