This year 18 students are attending the THIMUN conference in the Hague with three press students (Sammie, Zoya and Ella W), two chairs (Ella J and Dionne), and one judge on the ICJ (Aaron) alongside the 12 delegates representing Georgia. Six students flew out on Saturday so that they could attend their preparatory meetings on…
15 Royal Russell School students attended BMUN XII. This year we represented Sudan, Iraq and China with an excellent mix of experienced and less experienced delegates who all gave position statements in their committees, and managed to either take the floor or ask a point of information. Perhaps our busiest delegate was Sam who managed…
On Saturday we took eleven students to Croydon High School’s MUN Conference. We had a mix of experienced delegates and relative newcomers, including two who were attending their first conference. Without exception, all got really involved and spoke well in their committees, including Charlotte and Arjun who impressed immensely in their first ever conference, showing…
The 38th International RRS MUN Conference is now closed! All films can be seen by following the links below: You can follow us on Twitter @RoyalRussellMUN Instagram royalrussell_muntv FB: rrsimun The actual General assembly parts of the conference were live streamed on You Tube: Opening ceremony and opening speeches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAbR83Ms4Qw Monday debates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_CCEtZeFMA The Distinguished…
MiniMUN, the junior debating society which meets every week, continues to go from strength to strength. Over 30 students from Years 6, 7 and 8 attend debates each week to discuss issues which have ranged from questions ranging from “Should Prime Ministers and Presidents be above the law?” to “Should all countries remove the death…
Reigate MUN 2019 20 Royal Russell students attended the 23rd Reigate MUN conference this week. We had 3 chairs, Ella Jones, Aaron Bigord and Dionne Scougul who all did an excellent job helping to chair their committees and look to support less experienced delegates. Representing Cambodia, Switzerland and China, many of our delegates were attending…
Nine RRS students attended the Reigate Junior MUN conference last Saturday. This is a good training conference which gave our students a great opportunity to learn how to write a resolution and to get practice in debating. All of the students made good policy statements and got involved in debates. James, Lara and Toby wrote…
This year 7 students attended the 31st Dublin MUN conference. Having spent two months preparing, Megan and Ella finally had the chance to present their case at the ICJ, trying to defend accusations of Australia exploiting Nauru Islanders last century following the destruction of their island through phosphate mining. Ella and Megan did a great job as advocates but ultimately, having…
20 Royal Russell students attending the long weekend conference at Haileybury last weekend. This is the largest conference in terms of delegates in the UK – (ours is the oldest and the only 4 day UK conference) – and so a challenging place to go and debate. All of our students spoke and a number…
15 RRS students have returned from the Hague after a very successful week at THIMUN. Our ambassador, Stevie, managed to put up a strong showing in the debates on the occupied territories and she main submitted her resolution to her committee on the last day, before waving the Israeli flag in the closing ceremony. Megan…