CSDA & Archdale Debating

Following the Grand final of the Catholic Schools Debating Association (CSDA) competition several weeks ago, Santa Sabina was named overall winners of the Senior Aggregate Shield, and joint winners of the Junior Aggregate Shield alongside St Pats and Bethlehem.

These are awarded to the school or schools who have had the highest number of teams progress past the regular rounds. In our IGSA Archdale competition, the Year 9 and Senior teams both progressed through to the Quarter Finals and at the time of writing, we are waiting to see if they progress through to the Semi Finals next week. The year 7B and 8A teams narrowly missed out on the Quartern Finals on a countback.

Congratulations to all of our debating teams in both the IGSA Archdale and CSDA debating competitions, you have all done Santa Sabina very proud.

We also congratulate Molly Hoogland (Y10), who was selected into the IGSA representative debating team. The team consists of 13 students from years 10-12 from IGSA schools. Molly will train with the team and debate against other representative squads across the state. Molly is the first representative from Santa Sabina to be selected in a number of years, and is a wonderful achievement.

Rachael Simmons
Debating Coordinator