A team of 9 Mearns Castle debaters have qualified for the international forum of the European Youth Parliament in Valencia next July.
Congratulations to Andrew , Punim , Kirstin , Iona , Hazel , Amy, Vivian , Sujeet and Ben.
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A letter has been issued to pupils regarding the debating club.
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The Junior Debating Club will start on Monday 25th August.
The club is for all pupils in S1-3 and will run from 3.35-5.30pm.
Any pupil interested in joining (or re-joining) should come to room E4 after school on Monday.
New members are very welcome!
Due to a competition being held in the school, Monday’s S2/3 Debating Club is cancelled. The club will resume next Monday at 3.35pm in room E4.
Congratulations to our S3 Public Speaking team (Scott Miller, Claudia Marcusson and Callum Russell) for coming 2nd at the Grand Final of the Association of Speaker’s Club’s Youth Speech competition.
Once again they were excellent representatives of Mearns Castle and had a great result over some very tough competition.
Congratulations go to Elizabeth and Victoria Groom who won the Hutchesons’ Grammar School debating competition last Friday. The girls knocked out Bearsden Academy in the first round, The High School of Glasgow in the Semi-Final and Hutchesons’ Grammar in the Final.
This is a fantastic achievement in their first ever proper competition.
A big thanks also to Matthew Chalmers and Jack McPhail of S1, and Anjali Kashyap, Grainne Parkinson, Rhona McCalman and Kirsty Sutherland of S2 who came along to support the team and who participated in a debating workshop during the day.
Mearns Castle’s Debating club recently held a ‘Pupil v Politician’ debate on Nuclear Weapons. Speaking for the Politicians was MP and shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy.
Below is a film made of the debate by in-school film team – Mearns TV
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