On 7th February the Cambridge Union Schools' Debating Competition held second and regional rounds at Bury Grammar School Boys. Eight teams from schools around the region participated, with Richard Chew and Christopher Stanton (both of whom have just won offers from Cambridge University) representing BGSB.
Two motions were debated during the course of the evening. The first was 'This house believes that all 16-23 year olds should have one year of non-military compulsory community service', and the second was 'This house believes that prisoners should be used for experimental drug research'.
BGSB was one of two schools which were successful in both the second and regional rounds and Richard and Christopher went to Cambridge for the finals on 28th February. Schools at the finals included St Paul's, London and King Edward VI, Birmingham. Richard and Christopher did very well indeed - and were named as the 17th best debating team out of the hundreds of schools which entered this year's competition.