About C.H. Weekly

The History of Six Debates Weekly

• 1975 James Honeybone started development work at Bicester Community College, Oxfordshire
  
  
• 1975 - 1991 Development continued - C.H.Weekly only used at Bicester Community College
  
  
• 1991 - 1994 A team of 10 colleagues wrote C.H. Weekly and sold it, by post, to subscribers in: Secondary Schools; University Teacher Training Courses; Colleges of Higher and Further Education; Prisons, and the Nuffield Hospital, Oxford. (Full list available on request)
  
  
• 1994 - 1995 James Honeybone and his wife did a CertTEFL (Certificate for Teaching English as a Foreign Language) Course at Oxford Brookes University
  
  
• 1995 - 1997 They taught English as a Foreign Language at a Teachers' Training College in Shanxi Province, China with VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas). They used C.H. discussion techniques with Chinese trainee teachers.
  
  
• 1997 - 1998 preparations made for launching C.H.Weekly on the World Wide Web with a view to making it easily and cheaply available both to teachers in British Schools, Colleges, Universities, Prisons and Hospitals as well as to teachers of English as a Foreign Language both in Britain and overseas.     
• May 2004 " Friday Fortnightly Debates " launched for Primary Schools' Key Stage 2.
• 2005 title of weekly sheet changed to " Six Debates Weekly "