Headingley Festival of Ideas Years 10&11 Debating Competition 2016 Final
Wednesday 23 March 2016 – Leeds Salon hosts the third Headingley Festival of Ideas schools debating competition for years 10&11.
This year’s finalists are made up of the three Festival of Ideas qualifying round winners, and the winners of the new Tetley 2016 competition for south and central Leeds schools – making it an all-Leeds event for the first time.
Event Sponsors: Switalskis Solicitors
Prize Sponsors: Headingley Festial of Ideas and Hyde Park Picture House
15:40 – DEBATE 1 – “We Need to Build on the Green Belt”
FOR: Mount St Mary’s
AGAINST: Allerton High School
JUDGES
Sally Bavage, Headingley LitFest
Dan Clayton, The Leeds Salon
Patrick Kelly, Leeds City Council
16:45 – DEBATE 2 – “The UK Should Introduce a Levy on Sugary Drinks”
FOR: Abbey Grange Academy
AGAINST: Cardinal Heenan Catholic High
JUDGES
Cathy Cook, LCF Law
Dave Oxley, The Leeds Salon
Diane Wilson, Leeds City College
17:45 – Break
18:00 – FINAL – “We Should Welcome the Advent of Genome Editing”
FOR: Allerton High School
AGAINST: Abbey Grange Academy
JUDGES
Dan Clayton, The Leeds Salon
Susan Grant-Muller, University of Leeds
Michael Meadowcroft, Former Leeds West MP
19:15-19:30 – Judge’s Deliberations & Results
WINNERS: Allerton High School – Chani Kandola-Wade, Gurneeka Chana, Martha Amirahmadi, Melissa Mace all received cinema tickets to Hyde Park Picture House and copies of the Oxford Very Short Introduction to the Enlightenment.
RUNNERS-UP: Abbey Grange Academy
BEST INDIVIDUAL: Darragh Kennedy, Cardinal Heenan – being received a family ticket to Thackray Medical Museum and a copy of the Oxford very Short Introduction to Philosophy.