Not debate club. Not essay prep. A nine-month program where they build arguments, test them against the strongest objection, and speak without notes — one student, one coach, one live class a week.
Students try something before they are taught it, spot what made the stronger version work, play with the technique, make something real, say it out loud, get one piece of feedback — and immediately try again. That last step is where the growth lives.
Each mission runs six weeks and ends with your teen performing, presenting, or being questioned — so progress is something you watch, not something we report. Pick their grade to see their version.
From having a view to defending one — evidence they chose on purpose, structure a listener can follow, and composure when the questions get pointed.
What do I actually think — and why that?
In Grade 7: Puts a stake in the ground and defends the choice.
How do I make an audience feel the stakes?
In Grade 7: Turns a true story into an argument without moralising.
How do I make something hard genuinely understandable?
In Grade 7: Delivers a neutral briefing that leaves out their own opinion.
How do I build an argument that survives its strongest objection?
In Grade 7: Runs a formal debate round, start to finish.
How do I listen, think, and respond live?
In Grade 7: Faces cross-examination and stays composed.
What can I make that's mine — and defend?
In Grade 7: Presents a researched project and takes live questions.
Grade 9 is not Grade 8 with harder topics — each year the reasoning itself gets more demanding.
Fifty minutes, and your teen is the one working for almost all of it. No lecture. No worksheet stack. No sitting still while an adult explains.
Your teen says “I had to argue the side I disagree with.” What they practised was steel-manning, evidence selection, concession, rebuttal, and composure under cross-examination.
Five to ten minutes, once a week. No worksheets, nothing to print.
Six showcases across the year. Your teen presents, performs, or hosts — and takes real questions afterwards.
What they write, they say. What they say, they write. Each one makes the other clearer.
Sports, science, school policy, whatever they actually argue about. Three prompts and always “your own idea.”
Keep this. Upgrade that. Try it again — in the same class, not next term.
Structure, precision, and sentence craft are taught inside real arguments, never as a disconnected worksheet.
Quiet, chatty, perfectionist, or bursting with ideas — 1:1 means the lesson bends to them.
We record Week 1. In Week 36 you watch both. Nobody has to take our word for it.
We don't measure your teen by eye contact, big gestures, or how theatrical they are. Quiet students can be outstanding communicators, and we coach them like it.
One live 1:1 session with a coach. Your teen takes a position, defends it against one hard question, and revises it on the spot. You'll know within the hour.