Felsted School’s Model United Nations (MUN) held its eleventh annual conference on the theme of climate, hosting 17 schools from across the region and a selection of delegates from Felsted Prep School. A total of 250 delegates represented different countries, voicing the nation’s opinions with the aim of bringing about positive change. The pupils came together to discuss and debate the...
Politics
Taunton School sixth form student Hanna Wittek recently visited the House of Commons to deliver a campaign speech on behalf of the Youth Parliament. As Member of Youth Parliament (MYP) for Somerset, Hanna recently received the opportunity to go to the House of Commons to debate the top five issues that over 800,000 young people voted for nationwide in the Make your Mark youth vote this year. Earlier...
A Year 12 student at The Royal Masonic School for Girls has been named the winner of the 2019 New College of the Humanities London Essay Competition (Politics) for her essay about increasing voter turnout at elections. Mia, Year 12, attended the awards ceremony at the Bedford Square Gardens. The award ceremony was hosted by Professor A C Grayling, Master...
A student at St Swithun’s has been elected as the Member of Youth Parliament (MYP) for the West Hampshire Constituency. In her role as an MYP, Ishal Mahmud will work with Members of Parliament and service providers in order to champion youth issues and to present the views of constituents. She will meet regularly with other MYP’s to hold debates and plan campaigns on both a local and national level,...
At the end of an extremely busy week in Parliament, David Warburton MP for Frome and Somerton, gave a talk to pupils at All Hallows School. Pupils had written to him as part of a lesson in letter writing and explored different issues that they felt were relevant locally. Two letters on littering drew particular interest to Mr Warburton addressing concerns on the environment, danger to wildlife both...