Grant Park Novice Junior

NOVICE Junior Debate Tournament (Novice Grade 9 and under) Grant Park High School

Time: Thursday, Dec 14. Registration from 5 to 5:30. Awards at 8:30 pm Location: Grant Park High School, 450 Nathaniel St, Winnipeg

Resolution: Students should be held legally responsible for bullying in schools

There will be 2 rounds and all teams will debate both sides. Speaking times for all debates will be a maximum of 6 minutes for constructive speeches and 3 minutes for rebuttals. Points of information are not allowed (The parliamentary rules available on the MSDA website (https://sites.google.com/site/manitobadebate/home)).

If there are sufficient entries, there will be separate awards for grade 7 level, grade 8 level and grade 9 level, as well as overall tournament awards. In order to qualify as novice, debaters must be in in grade 6 or 7 or in their first year of debating in grade 8. In order to qualify as 9 novice, debaters must be in in grade 9 and in their first year of provincial debating. A team with students in two different grades should register as being in the higher grade. Schools may send a maximum of 3 teams in total, i.e. adding together the grade 7, 8 and 9 teams. Depending upon numbers, it may be possible to send additional teams. If you would like to do so please indicate this and, if you include your phone number or email address, I will let you know on Dec 11. Schools must bring at least one judge per 2-person team. If this presents a problem, please contact me about it and we will see if other arrangements can be made. Judges may be grade 10, 11 or 12 students.

Please email the information below by December 8 to bmacklin@wsd1.org Please email if you have any questions.

School_____________________________________ Coach___________________________________

phone __________________(home) ________________ (school)

(email) _______________________________________________

Number of teams: ___ (grade 7) _______(grade 8) _______(grade 9) Additional teams if there is space ____ (7) ____ (8) ____ (9)