Royal Russell pupils excelled themselves yet again at Habs Boys MUN conference last weekend, with Lucas Jones, Ben Preston and Ella Jones winning top delegate awards. Ten RRS pupils attended, representing Mongolia and the UK. Megan Driver made key resolution amendments for the UK and Ben had as many as 7 of his amendments passed for…
The Royal Russell students have now returned from a very successful THIMUN conference. Our delegates did really well in the committees. Despite there being 3,000 delegates at the conference 6 of our students managed to be main submitter or co-submitter (and 1st yield) on a resolution that they presented in their committee – Pippa, Stevie, Nikita, Megan, Ella…
19 Royal Russell students are attending the 50th annual THIMUN conference this week which was opened on Monday by the King of the Netherlands (who, as a student, had attended the Royal Russell MUN conference back in 1982). Our students, representing Ghana, have made a great start to the conference. Alex, Megan, Farrah and Stevie…
Royal Russell students had a very successful day at the Croydon High MUN conference on Saturday 18th November. Three of our students were asked to guest chair committees at the conference and Pippa, Meera and Ella all did a great job chairing with their usual calm assurance and excellent knowledge of procedure. We took three delegations…
The 36th annual RRSiMUN conference closed on Tuesday 17th October after 4 great days of debating. At the end of the conference the following students won Highly commended delegate awards: COMMITTEE HIGHLY COMMENDED DELEGATES CRISIS Australia, China, Italy, Libya, Togo ENVIRONMENT UK, China, Libya, Tanzania, Portugal, Sri Lanka, Cuba, Myanmar SPECPOL 1 Germany, Italy, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland,…
This year we have had record numbers attending MiniMUN on a Wednesday evening. Over forty Year 6, 7 and 8 students have been debating topics as wide ranging as all countries having to introduce gender neutral uniform to legalising cannabis for adults via continuing with the Death Penalty. On Wednesday we had the annual debate…
Royal Russell students launched the MUN year with a successful trip to Reigate MUN representing France and Jordan. Lucas and Stevie both acted as Chairs and did a brilliant job. With the clash of our own RRS Open Day, we took a more inexperienced team than usual but they all did well, each speaking in their…
Twelve Year 7, 8 and 9 Royal Russell students attended the Reigate Junior MUN conference last Saturday representing Kazakhstan, Egypt and the United Kingdom. This was a great opportunity for our junior MUN delegates to experience their first conference. The day included a couple of workshops on Public Speaking and MUN debating. The students…
Five Royal Russell Students attended the 29th SAIMUN conference during the week before Easter. As always this was a brilliantly well run conference and our students had a fantastic time. George, Gedi, Megan and Pippa represented Egypt at the conference and all spoke a number of times with Gedi making an excellent speech as the…
On Friday lunchtime we set off for the annual Haileybury MUN conference, with sixteen pupils all ready to start debate and meet up with old friends. Thalia and Meera were invited to the conference as guest chairs and showed an impressive understanding of the debate procedure. Having prepared thoroughly beforehand Stevie, Josh, Pippa and Nikolai…
