Debating
Our Foxwell debating teams have had a great deal of success during our first two rounds of debates. We are incredibly proud of them and the work that they put in during their own time to improve their skills and teamwork. In debating, teams of 3 students are assigned either the affirmative or negative side of a topic and must convince their audience that their case is stronger. During short preparation rounds, teams are given a topic and side and have 2 hours to prepare their case before presenting it. This is very difficult, as you can imagine, but our debaters are always keen to learn, develop their skills and have a go!
This year we have teams in both Junior A and Junior B. Unfortunately we were unable to field a team in Intermediate this year, but we hope to rectify that in 2023.
Our Junior B teams have debated the prepared topics ‘Sweet is better than savoury”; “Everyone should have to learn a foreign language” and “Single-sex schools should be abolished”. They start their first ever short preparation debate on June 1st.
Our Junior A teams have debated the topics “Influencers are more harm than help” and “Tourism poses an unacceptable threat” and had their first short preparation debate last week where they prepared and debated the topic “Schools should teach more about how our government works”.
If you would like to come along and support our wonderful debaters, the dates and venues are below. All debates are on a Wednesday night, begin at 6:00 pm and are usually finished between 7:00 and 7:30 pm.
Junior A Round 4 Short Prep Saint Stephen’s College, Coomera 25th May
Junior B Round 4 Short Prep King’s Christian College, Pimpama 1st June
Junior A Round of 16 Short Prep Somerset College, Mudgeeraba 8th June
Junior B Round 5 Short Prep King’s Christian College, Pimpama 15th June