3rd & 4th Grade Debate (Grades 3-4) Thursdays

Hunter Debate Club Jr.

This course goes beyond a typical debate 101 class. It will help your child gain confidence and newfound communication skills to form strong arguments, defend viewpoints, and gain performance plasticity,  a critical skill for future endeavors. Debate Club Jr. will explore the science of verbal and nonverbal communication and the art behind persuasion.

Throughout this class, we will utilize well-known literature to familiarize students with a cultured sense of skills in debate and persuasion theory. Skills, including public speaking, negotiations, interviewing, and of course, debate, will be reviewed and practiced in depth. Debate Jr. offers skills that your child will benefit from inside and outside of the classroom. Not only will academic skills be gained, but a newfound confidence will emerge.

This course is taught by an outside vendor; therefore, this course is nonrefundable after 02/09/2024. Instructional times are from 2:45pm to 4:00pm. 

From 4:00pm to 4:10pm, students are cleaning up/packing up and transiting to dismissal, clubs, or study nest.

After enrichment classes, Hawk's Nest students have the opportunity to choose and participate in after-school clubs, study nest, and free play from 4:15pm to 5:30pm.