Richard Challoner Winners 2012 with
The Worshipful the Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Cllr. Patrick Codd,
Stan Moss and
Rotarian Anne McCormack,
President of Kingston Rotary Club.
Our new venue of New Malden Methodist Church proved a suitable setting for this year's Youth Speaks Competition on Tuesday 31st January 2012 at 7.00 pm.
Four Kingston schools took part being Coombe Girls, Tiffin Girls, Tolworth Girls and Richard Challoner all competing for the Arnold Stenhouse Trophy and the chance to go through to a regional and national final.
The subjects discussed ranged from "Beauty" to "What price Freedom" and "Prejudice" with a very high standard being reached by all those participating.
Below are the results of our 2012 Competition.
The winning team was Giacomo Carmello, Chris Kendall and Sam Baxter from Richard Challoner.
Runners up were Ellie Kennedy, Aakeen Parikh, Uzma Nawaz from Tolworth Girls School team 2.
Best Speaker was Maathumai Vipulananthan from Tolworth Girls School team 1 and the Best Chairperson was Giacomo Carmello from Richard Challoner.
Best Vote of Thanks was given by Nuha Bazeer from Coombe Girls.
A special merit prize went to Aakeen Parikh from Tolworth Girls.
The teams received their certificates and prizes from The Worshipful the Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames Cllr. Patrick Codd and Rotarian Anne McCormack, President of the Rotary Club of Kingston upon Thames.
Unfortunately Richard Challoner did not make it through to the next round but the adjudicators stated that they performed extremely well.
