Youth Speaks: A Debate – Rotary in Harpenden

A grounding in debating

Youth Speaks: A Debate, another long-standing nationwide competition run by Rotary across the country, aims at giving young people an experience in debating and public speaking that will benefit them forever.

Teams are drawn from senior schools and, depending on their age, compete in junior, intermediate or senior categories. Each team has three members – chairperson, proposer and opposer – who have 15 minutes to debate a subject of the team’s choice.

The winners in each age group go forward to the district heat… and maybe to the cluster finals.

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Youth Speaks attracts nine teams for debate

Four schools fielded nine teams for debate in this year’s Youth Speaks contest, held at Aldwickbury Park Golf Club. The range of topics debated could not have been wider nor the debates more spirited.

29th Harpenden Quiz of Quizzes

This year’s venue will be at St. George’s School on Friday 13th March.

Use the QR code to download, or email qofq@rih.org.uk to request an entry form.

Friendship Boxes enliven Ukrainian children’s Christmas

For the second year, Rotary in Harpenden supplied Friendship Boxes to junior schools in the Harpenden, Redbourn and Wheathampstead area, to be filled by pupils and parents with educational and recreational items for sending to children in Ukraine.