The Big Mouth Club

At Belmore South Public School our debating club is growing in leaps and bounds with enthusiastic and committed students from Stage 2 and Stage 3.

Debating is a complicated endeavour that develops skills in reasoning and speaking that are valuable both at school and in general life. Mrs Hoare and Ms Hargraves are working with the students who debated last year to support and mentor our new debaters.  We are all focused on developing the three M’s of debating.

Matter is how we construct an argument to convince the audience that our perspective is the most persuasive. Already we are able to work together to create more sophisticated and convincing ideas. So far this year we have worked on the topics “that sport is better than computer games” and “that competition is a good thing”.

Method is the formal procedure for how we undertake the debate and we are making sure we know what to do to get it right every time.

Manner is the way in which we speak to convince the audience of the merits of our particular argument. We have been focusing on developing skills in the areas of eye contact, body language and the way we use our voices to persuade others of our opinion.

Here are just some of our fabulous Stage 2 and 3 debating team:
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We are currently in the midst of preparing for our next debate. Our topic is “that city living is better than country living”.   Although we have lots of ideas we always welcome more…

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