Monthly media and arts column
When English teachers are wondering what speaking and listening task to set their GCSE classes, one popular solution is the ‘plinth debate’.
Eleanor Margesson
This gets students discussing who or what should be displayed on the empty fourth plinth of Trafalgar Square in central London. Among the claims that David Beckham or the Queen Mother should be the worthy winners, I doubt that any 15-year-old ever suggested that a naked, pregnant, disabled woman should be displayed.
