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Ed Offer

Tuesday 28 February 2006

Had a really successful innaugral meeting of the S1-S3 debating club on Monday lunchtime. There are 3 teachers involved ( EFell, MRobertson and myself). We were a bit worried in case only a couple of pupils turned up as there is plenty of healthy competition at DGS for extra-curricular activities. However, it was a great turn-out - over 18 pupils with more being shoe-horned in for future debates.

We discussed the formal debate process, showed them some initial debate topics and had a secret ballot. The first debate next week is 'This house believes T.V. is a waste of time' and almost all of the folk at the meeting put their hands up to be the first teams to go head to head - superb! I'll let you know the result !- although the audience are to vote on the team making the best case and competently answering questions, rather than what they themselves believe.

Both EF and myself are meeting the proposition / opposition group on Thursday to give them minimal guidance, but they seem to be keen to get going which is excellent news. If anyone is interested in setting a club up let me know and I can offer advice/ a starter pack. Also have a look at the Debatabase for topics as well as excellent resources for Modern studies (thanks for this link Gill).

Cheers go to GClark for handing over the activity and helping us out. Moreover, his efforts to take debating to Dunbar Primary has really paid off for us, as lots of the S1 pupils had taken part in a debate before.

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