Debating

Congratulations to Sophia Maxwell and Lauren Zhang who were awarded Spirit of Debating awards last week.

Madeleine Howard, Aleisha Lawrence, Sirena Scotting and Samuel Cook competed in the Finals of the SDN Competition on Friday. The team spoke beautifully and used every argument that they could as they debated against “That the Australian government should withdraw all funding to private schools.” The audience felt that it was a very close debate. The adjudication thought that even though they had some excellent “gems” of argument, they came too late in the debate.

What stood out to me during the debate was that even though the opposition took to personal attack, and in a couple of cases belittled our team during their arguments, our team did not stoop to that level and kept their comments about the issue. This makes the Redlands team winners in my eyes, but unfortunately not the actual winners.

Lily Wickham was present at the event and I would like to take this opportunity to thank her for all the tireless work as Captain of Debating this year. She has been fantastic and embodied the spirit of Debating. I wish her and all our Yr 12 students all the best for their imminent HSC and IB examinations.

Ms Simone Bryant
Debating Coordinator
sbryant@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9968 9875