Rhetoric, an academic enrichment activity for Years 7 to 9 undertook a series of team building challenges, testing their logic, team work and communication skills. After a warm up quiz, their first challenge was to build the tallest tower from paper cups, without actually touching the cups! This was followed by building the tallest free standing tower from just newspaper and Sellotape, with bonus points for design, team work and if it could support a tennis ball. Well done to the Year 7 team of Felix H, Tom J, Tom P and Ryan G who won the most points across all the activities.
Scholars Society for Years 10 and 11 met for their first meeting of the year and organised groups and themes for the debates and presentations that will occur over the course of the year, researched and led by the pupils themselves.
Finally, during Year 12’s first meeting of the Head’s Essay Society they focused on the topic ‘What limits should we place, if any, on the right to freedom of expression?’. Pupils had to research the topic, compose an essay and then debate and discuss their ideas as a group with Mr Paget-Tomlinson and Mrs Dencher. A thoughtful and well informed debate took place, with all pupils contributing their ideas. Tom H’s work can be seen below.