On Wednesday 11^th January, nine brave students made the journey to ‘The Grange Country Club’ in Thornton Hough to participate in the annual Rotary ‘Youth Speaks’ public speaking competition. Our hosts, the South Wirral Rotary Club, provided an excellent opportunity for local schools to engage with this national competition and the students chose to speak on the theme of the Olympics.

King’s were represented at Intermediate level by Emily Jones (3HL) Dexter Southern (3JR) and Stanley Parker (3DR). They spoke very eloquently on the topic of the Paralympics, giving the audience lots to consider. King’s were represented at Senior level by two teams. Will Copley (5EH) Tommy Metcalf (5ET) and Ananth Ranjit (5PN) spoke engagingly on the topic of ‘fair play’ in the Olympic Games and dealt well with some very difficult questions from the floor. Inevitably, the teams were in competition with each other and the next team of Jack Webber (5JM) Hayley Milner (5MP) and Rudi Macloskey (5JM) were deemed the eventual winners of the Senior competition; their topic was the role of the Olympic Games as a political tool. Hayley Milner was judged best chair person of the evening and the whole team will go forward to the next round of the competition, the District Final. This will be held at Theatr Clwyd on 24^th February, 2012.

King’s would like to congratulate all of the students who took part on their professionalism, enthusiasm and success.