J A Thompson History Debating
On Tuesday 2 June, ten students from Years 9 and 10 represented the College in the J A Thompson History Debating Competition at All Saints College Liverpool. This is an annual competition which encourages students to debate various ancient and modern history topics and apply a variety of historial and analytical skills. The girls competed in three debates across the day and were successful in two of them. Below is Emma's account of the day.
Team photo
On Tuesday, 21 June, our history debating team (Olivia M, Meghan W, Eve M, Molly P, Holly B, Oreoluwa A, Ava M, Orlaith B, Ria K, and Emma G) attended All Saints College to participate in the yearly J A Thompson history debating competition. Starting from 9am until 2:30pm, three debates between All Saints, St Johns, Charbels and our College took place.
For the first debate, St Patrick's competed against All Saints, whilst Charbels competed against St Johns, the topic being ‘Ned Kelly was an Australian hero’, and our team debated on the negative side. We unfortunately lost this debate. For the second debate, St Patrick's competed against St Johns, whilst All Saints competed against Charbels, the topic being ‘The dismissal of the Whitlam government in 1975 was justified’. We fought on the affirmative this time and we won. For the final debate, St Patrick's competed against Charbels, whilst St Johns competed against All Saints. The topic was ‘The US response to 9/11 was effective’. We fought for the negative side and we won. Overall we won 2 out of 3 of the debates, and will be progressing to the quarter finals.
Emma G - Year 10 Student