Fort Street’s Year 8 Debate Team takes the victory for being the last PDC Debating Team standing for the competition in 2022!

On Friday the 16 of September 2022, our Year 8 Debate team debated against Newtown in the final regional round for the Premier’s Debating Competition.

Even though we had an advantage with choosing the topic and the side to argue, our opponent was too good at arguing against the notion that “parents should be banned as spectators in school sport”. Our first speaker was Chinmay Dixit, followed by Bhavnish Jain as second speaker then Henry Huang as third speaker and Aaditya Venkatraman as team advisor. Aiden Lee also did an excellent job at chairing the debate.

Nonetheless, our Year 8 Debate Team still takes the victory for being the last standing Fort Street Debate Team in the 2022 Premier’s Debating Competition. We started the year with a Year 11/12 debate Team, a Year 9/10 debate Team, a Year 8 Debate Team and a Year 7 Debate Team.  

You should be proud of yourself boys and you all should feel like you look in these photos: Debating Rockstars!

Ms. Truong

Debating and Public Speaking Coordinator