Language Arts

Archdale Debating

Archdale main competition debaters resumed on Tuesday 25 July with Round 6. Results will be published next week. 

Round 7 will also be at Pymble next Tuesday 1 August, when we debate Monte Sant’ Angelo teams. Finalists for both Archdale competitions – Main Shield and Virtual/Invitational, will be announced following Round 7. 

Sydney Social Debating (SSD) 

SSD competition will resume each Friday at Pymble from 3.30pm to 6.30pm, from Week 4, 11 August. Please meet in C10 again. We are pleased to offer this developmental level competition to our Years 7 to 12 students again this term. Thank you to our student coaches and our adjudicators. CCSA will be sending registrations to all those who expressed interest. 

IDC 

Registrations will be sent to all who registered interest in IDC. CCSA will prepare these in the coming weeks. This competition commences in Term 4. 

Model United Nations (MUN) 

PMUN Conference 

Tomorrow, Friday 28 July and Saturday 29 July, our PMUN team will be running our second interschool Winter Conference. We have a student guest speaker and a workshop booked with UN Youth. Interest is high and we look forward to a wonderful event. Thank you to Mulan Xu (Year 11), our MUN captain and her team who have worked hard to prepare for this. If there are any LA parents with a Working with Children check who would like to assist on Saturday for a few hours, please contact Mrs Hubbard. BHubbard@pymblelc.nsw.edu 

Legacy Public Speaking 

Best wishes to Jenny Xu (Year 9) and Leahara Wijesuriya (Year 7) who will speak at Queenwood on Thursday 3 August. 

Bronwyn Hubbard

Head of Language Arts