Debating

DAV 

An enormous congratulationsgoes to the following students who achieved impressive debating awards recently.

𝗟𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗮 𝗣, 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘃 𝗖, 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗫, 𝗟𝘆𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗦 and 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗵 𝗦 were runners up in DAV Schools Competition Year 11 Grand Final debate against Scotch College. This is quite a phenomenal effort, reaching this stage placed these students in the top two teams in their grade from across Victoria, out of the 1,400 teams in this competition.

Also two Huntingtower teams competed in the State Grand Final of the Junior British Parliamentary Debating Competition: 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗧, 𝗟𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗛, 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘃 𝗠 and 𝗘𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗗, 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘀 𝗙, 𝗝𝗲𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗠. Our teams finished first and second (out of four competing teams).

Well done to 𝗟𝗶𝗹𝘆, 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 and 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘃 who were crowned champions!

House Debating 

This was the first time in three years that we had run a face-to-face competition, with the tournament taking place over the course of the final week of term: Senior School debates at Monday Lunchtime, Middle School debates at Tuesday Lunchtime, Senior School British Parliamentary Debating and public speaking Wednesday afternoon, and Middle School British Parliamentary debating and public speaking on Thursday afternoon.

Students participated in a range of events, including standard 3v3 debates (with one event for experienced debaters and one for students who have not debated before), British Parliamentary debating (with four houses competing at once, and the ability to interject into each other’s speeches), impromptu speaking (where students have five minutes to construct a speech in response to a prompt), persuasive speaking (where they advocate on an issue), and after dinner speaking (where they aim to entertain).  

Congratulations to the overall winners Mather!

Australian Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championships

Well done to Sophie L, Olivia W, Prisha R, Jade H, Nihar P, Chloe D, Daniel L and Keira L who all competed at the 2022 Australian Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championships (AIDPSC).

For this competition, students compete across four areas of public speaking: prepared speaking, impromptu speaking, interpretive reading and debating and the competition is split into two divisions: the main AIDPSC Competition and the AIDPSC Speakfest Competition.

Congratulationsto the our team in the main AIDPSC Competition, all four students finished in the top 20:

• 12th Overall: Sophie

• 15th Overall: Olivia

• 16th Overall: Prisha

• 20th Overall: Jade

We had an outstanding result in the other division, Nihar was named the 2022 Overall Winner of the AIDPSC Speakfest Competition! 

Well done to Chloe who won the Debating category and to Daniel and Keira who also performed superbly.

DAV Schools Competition: FOUR teams through to Quarter Finals! 

The DAV Schools Competition is the big, state-wide debating competition that began at the start of this year. 

TWO of the eight top Year 11 teams in Victoria are from Huntingtower: Pranav Choudhary, Lithasha P, Danesh S, Lynton Sand Michael X; and Rishika D, Daphne G, Lara L, Eleni M, Harshitaa N and Anushka S.

TWO of the eight top Year 10 teams in Victoria are from Huntingtower: Chloe D, Daniel L, Sanula Pand Nicholas T; and Jade H, Sophie L, Keira L, Prisha Rand Olivia W 

(who are actually Year 9s debating against students one grade above them).