Our House Debating Competition rolls through the year and see each Year group have a House battle on a debate related to a respective Focus Week curriculum.
This half-term saw Year 13 debate on whether the #MeToo movement has gone past its sell-by-date and the following scores were achieved:
Seward House – 57 points
Darwin House – 56 points
Garrick House – 31 points
Johnson House – 28 points.
Next term sees the following debates taking place:
Year 12 – Focus Week on ‘Remembrance’
Debate – “It is time to move on from remembering the First World War…”
Year 11 – Focus Week on ‘International Abolition of Slavery Day & World Heroines – Harriet Tubman’
Debate – “The Black Lives Matter Movement has run its cause…”
The school debates are always judged by external visitors – as well as School Librarian Helena Cresswell – with the Year 13 debate judged by Greg Sugden (Governor at The Friary School) and Gill Stockdale (Trustee of The Greywood Multi-Schools Trust).
These debates act as a training programme for the Sixth Form Team which enters the annual School Speaking Competition staged amongst local secondary schools and held before Michael Fabricant MP.
Carrie Cain, Assistant Headteacher, said: “the cut-and-thrust of argument, counter-argument, evidence and at times bravado is excellent preparation for later life and great fun too. The initial debates were superb to watch with some real stand-out performances and it is going to be great to see them make their way own to the Year 7s who will represent the school in years to come.”
