Issue 15 | Spring 2024
TALK 2 LEARN Rokeby School Awards BY BY SHLOK SHLOK PATEL PATEL 8R 8R
Talk 2 Learn is a whole year group debate which runs every term at Rokeby. The motion this term was “Protests only divide people”. Students in Y8 prepared for the event in Art, Creative Arts, Humanities and English. Not only was this the first time the proposition team had won, but the judges were deliberating for over well five minutes! The judges were Mr Bailey (The Head of English), Ms Ward (Key Stage Coordinator) and Mr Leslie, who is the the CEO of REIN (Rights and Equalities In Newham) and also our Chair of Trustees at NCL (Newham Community Learning Trust). Although the winners of this year’s debate were ROK students, Wais Hussain in 8Y (who against the motion, was the winner of the best speaker award for his developed responses to questions and his powerful point on how the Civil Rights Movement brought people together. The representatives of ROK and the winners of this year’s Talk 2 Learn are: Qaasim Abbas 8R, Nusair Mohamed Nasvi 8O, Samuel Otunuga 8K and Shlok Patel 8R. Well done to the EBY students who also took part: Wais Hussain in 8Y, Samir Hossain 8B, Anas Ali Khan 8B and Fazal Shah 8Y. Well done to everyone involved!
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