Schools Question Time Challenge 2008
The winners for this year’s Schools Question Time Challenge supported by BT Better World Campaign, the Institute for Citizenship and the BBC were announced by David Dimbleby on BBC One's Question Time on Thursday 1st May. The winners, who will join David and the Question Time team to make a special edition of Question Time to be broadcast on BBC One on Thursday 10th July, were:
Ringwood School, Near Bournemouth
Holyhead High School, Birmingham
Gwernyfed High School, Powy
The Tiffin Gir's School, Kingston-Upon-Thames
Also highly commended were St Stephen's High School, Port Glasgow. They will be involved in a pre-programme event that is being organised by the Institute for Citizenship. We hope to make an announcement regarding this shortly.
The judges were extremely impressed by all the finalists and our thanks go to the seven other finalists:
Pate's Grammar School, Cheltenham
Ilford Ursuline High School, Ilford Essex
Brighton, Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College BHASVIC, Hove
Beal High School, Ilford
St. Edwards College, Liverpool
Newham Sixth Form College, Plaistow
Warlingham School, Warlingham
The
2008/2009 Schools Question Time Challenge will be launched in Autumn
2008, so please come back to this website for information on how to
enter.
More information about Schools Question Time:
Click here to for more information on this year's Schools Question Time Challenge
By participating in the Challenge, pupils:
- learn about citizenship
- contribute to stimulating political discussions
- improve their speaking and listening skills
- engage with members of the community.
FREE Teacher Resources
Schools Question Time is the final product of a far wider education initiative with the goal of helping schools nationwide
- supporting the citizenship curriculum
- helping improve students' public speaking and listening skills
- engaging young people in society and politics.
The Schools Question Time Challenge operates on a number of levels.
You can download the Schools Question Time Challenge Guide, Event Pack, and Commnication Skills Toolkit from www.schoolsquestiontime.org
free of charge thanks to BT Better World Campaign. The Schools Question
Time resources support the teaching of citizenship in the
classroom and include curriculum-based work sheets on
speaking and listening, enquiry and debate, teamwork and critical
self-analysis.
Further educational resources have been produced by the BT Better World
Campaign and free resources can be found on their website www.btbetterworld.com > Free Resources. Many of these resources also help develop the communication skills promoted by
the Schools Question Time Challenge.
There are also a number of free resources available through this website: Institute for Citizenship > Resources
Last year’s Schools Question Time Challenge
Last year was the fourth year that the Challenge has run and young people tackled very contentious issues such as faith, ethinicity and cultural identity.
David Dimbleby, IfC President and Question Time Chair said of this year's highly succesful challenge:
“The response to this year’s Schools
Question Time Challenge was tremendous. The judges were
very impressed by the quality of events held by the 12 finalist
schools, and particularly by the highly topical and challenging
questions and the wide ranging and stimulating debates that took place.
Once again, young people have shown that they are passionate about
politics, and particulary about the issues that affect their lives. I
am looking forward to working with pupils from winning schools in
July 2008.”
Partners Websites:
Schools Question Time > Apply here