Last weekend, Year 11 pupils Gabriella, Jayda and Clotilde headed to the national final of the ESU Public Speaking competition which took place at Churchill College in Cambridge.
The prestigious ESU-Churchill Public Speaking Competition, sponsored by the International Churchill Society, is the largest such contest in England and Wales, with around 400 teams (each comprising a speaker, questioner and a chairperson). The different roles allow students to practice and excel in different skill sets, and the competition’s unique format, which pairs the speaker from one school with the chair and questioner of another, encourages quick thinking and relationship building.
Gabriella’s speech was a reply to the statement ‘sometimes economic development must come at the cost of democracy’ and she had the opportunity to answer questions from other teams and the audience.
We are very proud of our pupils for getting to this stage of the competition.