Debating Review

On Thursday, the Emanuel Middles Debating team were victorious over Broughton Anglican College in what was a very high quality debate.

The topic was ‘that reality TV shows should be voted off the island of Australia’. The team had all Szenes speakers with Chloe Miller in Year 7 as first speaker, Rebekah Goldsworthy in Year 8 second speaker and Beau Glass in Year 8 as third speaker. Lara Fosbery from Rashi was Team Advisor.

The team won convincingly, arguing the benefits of reality TV such as inspiration, the cost of the industry, and that we have more important matters on our hands than abolishing a great entertainment source.

With this win we advance to the quarterfinals of the competition. We had lots of fun and overall it was a great experience.

Beau Glass

On Monday, the Seniors Debating team travelled to the Northern Beaches to debate against Pittwater House. This debate was the preliminary finals

after we had secured a win in the elimination final last week against The

Hills Grammar School.

When we arrived at Pittwater House we discovered that we would be arguing the affirmative side of the topic, ‘High speed police car chases should be outlawed’.

After an hour of furious preparation, we were ready to debate. Although we did not debate at our highest level of achievement this time, we were still successful and won the debate by proving that high speed car chases were dangerous and not necessary as there are alternatives.

We now look forward to the quarter finals next week.

The team:

• Lara Joffe
• Sienna Amoils
• Natasha Gering
• Isabella Flax
• Liahm Simon
• Joshua Amoils

Facilitator: Ms Helen Philp

Lara Joffe