Cranleigh Makes Regional Final of BBC Schools’ Question Time

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Top 45 in the Country and Top 3 in the Region

The School’s Knoller Society (history and politics) has made it through to the regional final of the annual BBC Schools’ Question Time Competition. The BBC run a competition every year to find a school to produce a young person’s version of the popular BBC show. The first stage requires schools to submit a proposal outlining what topics they would like to discuss and who they would have on their ‘dream panel’ – the more realistic the panel the better. For example, it would be unlikely to get all three leaders of the main parties on the same show. Emily Coleridge, Alex Curtis, Lulu Golden, Hugo Moxey and Peter Thompson got to work and came up with a very interesting panel to talk about issues such as David Cameron’s Big Society, Defence Budget Cuts, the London Olympic Legacy and the up-and-coming AV Referendum. After plenty of research they plumped for Lord Mandelson (Lab), Liam Fox MP (Con), Susan Kramer (LD), Dame Kelly Holmes (athlete), and Campbell Robb (Director of the charity ‘Shelter’).

We significantly impressed the judges with our choices and reasoning and were rewarded with a place in the regional final. We now have a tight deadline (less than two weeks) to submit a five-minute video debate of our pupils debating one of our chosen issues. Regular readers of the website, please come back here in the next couple of weeks to view our entry.

For more information visit:

http://www.schoolsquestiontime.org/get-involved/get-involved-news/item/104-regional-finalists-announced

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