WCCS - Lent Term 2026

This has been a great first half of term and wonderful to see the progress made by our groups. On skills we have looked at body language, active listening, speaking with conviction and pre-empting the opposition/proposition, and how to analyse unseen work.

For warm-up questions we have covered core interview questions along with philosophical thinking questions, including for examples: 'what is your favourite subject and why?'; 'who is your favourite fictional character and why?'; 'which news story caught your eye this week?'; 'is it better to be wealthy or healthy?'. This has then been followed by a closer look at various debating motions (splitting into teams to replicate competition format). A flavour of the subjects we have debated this term: whether social media should be banned for under 16-year-olds; whether it is ever justified for a sports team to walk off the field in protest at a referee's decision; whether it is better for a leader to be feared or loved.

Through all of these exercises we have encouraged the boys to support their position with reasons, to give real-life examples and to consider the way in which they present themselves.

Very well done all.