Congratulations to our Year 9 students who took part in the Excellence academy programme hosted by Blackpool Sixth Form and in association with Oxbridge Edge.

This last session of the programme saw teams debating the four following topics:

  • Should learning to learn be a GCSE subject in its own right?
  • Will reproductive technology be beneficial to humans in the long term?
  • To what extent is history her story?
  • Are religions licensed insanities?

The team did not win the overall debating contest, but did learn invaluable communication and resilience skills along the way with a superb effort from Freya, Ray and Finley this time round. Overall the students were extremely well behaved and had done extra research on each topic, in readiness for the session, which was great to see.

The Excellence academy is a three year long programme which starts in Year 9 and will carry on with further workshops in Year 10 called 'Peace and Conflict' and Year 11 - plenty more energetic debates for our group to look forward to!

Each student who took part in the programme this year will receive a certificate of achievement during their celebration assembly.

Well done the Aspire team: Freya Mae, Kieran, Corey, Shahavsi, Crystal, Jack, Adhitiya, Finley, Brandon and Aaron.