STUDENT ACTIVITIES

Debating 

On the 8th of June, the Chilwell B debating team (which consists of James Ilievski, April Fifer, Jayden Shum, Nikita Kukreja and Alice Hu) competed against the Geelong Lutheran (St John’s) debating A team. It was a tough debate but our team pushed through. Jayden was 1st speaker, April was 2nd and James was 3rd - Congratulations to James who also won “Best Speaker”. 

The topic of the debate was if the voting age, should be lowered to 16, we argued negative. In the end, we won the debate. We would like to thank Mr Cole and Mrs Stephenson for making the debate possible and for helping our team do the best we possibly could.  

On the 14th of June, Minnie Lovejoy, Lewis Davidson and Asher Allport from the Chilwell A team (which consists of Minnie Lovejoy, Lewis Davidson, Asher Allport, Elias Limb and Sayuni Dharmasena) debated against Belmont Primary School. Congratulations to the team for winning the debate! Special thanks to Mrs Stephenson for her suppo

By Nikita and Alice 

On Wednesday 14th June, Chilwell A welcomed Belmont Primary for our round one debate. The topic was That the Voting Age Should Be Lowered to 16, and we were the affirmative team, meaning we had to agree with the topic. Lewis was first speaker, Minnie was second speaker and Asher was third speaker.

It was a close debate, but the team did a fantastic job and came away with the win, using persuasive arguments and relevant research to convince the adjudicator that we should let people vote at 16. Special congratulations to Asher for being awarded Best Speaker of the debate.

The next round will be early next term and both debating teams are excited to be representing Chilwell again. Thanks to Mrs Stephenson and Mr Cole for all their help with the preparation.

By Sayuni and Eli