Crompton House are crowned Oldham's top debaters!

Crompton House were victorious at the inaugural Oldham Debating Championship

The first-ever staging of the Oldham Debating Championships took place recently, with Crompton House and multiple other local sixth form students competing for the inaugural title.

And Crompton House's Sixth Form students took first place, seeing off strong competition from the likes of Blue Coat, Hulme and Oldham Sixth Form.

The four strong-willed competitors were Briany, Brooke, El and Lola and each of them debated incredibly well.

Both pairs of debaters won as well as a personal honour awarded to Brooke who was chosen as the Best Individual Debater.

Brooke said: "I personally debated that phones ‘should be in the allowed in the classroom’ (we were not able to choose which side we wanted to argue for) and the other topic was ‘should humanity fear AI?

“We were aware of the competition for a week which was a bit of a surprise, but Mr Mason and Mrs Horrocks helped us prepare at dinner times and even after school.

"I absolutely loved it but I was terrified at first and I thought it was an amazing opportunity.

“The girls were all incredible and we worked together really well and cheered each other on - I couldn’t have done it without Briany next to me.

"El and Lola’s fantastic performance was the reason we were competing for first place.

“We had only done one debate in debate club so this was my second time debating ever so I really didn’t know what to expect, but I felt I had done enough research to feel confident.

“I hope there will be another opportunity to debate with the girls soon!”

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