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Many people are likely familiar with the Melhuish Speaking Competition that the school holds every year, and which all students participate in. The debate and public speaking programs, however, took these speeches one step further. All students involved in the Fine Art of Public Speaking, and any who chose to from Debate, utilized their carefully...

In late January, twenty-six members of the Brentwood Debate team traveled to Glenlyon Norfolk School to participate in the Vancouver Island Regional Debate Tournament. Over the course of the day, they participated in four debates, two of which were pre-prepared and two that were on impromptu topics. Teams had no idea what to expect in the...

On 7am on Friday the April 6th, 49 delegates departed the gates of Brentwood. Our destination was to attend ShawMUN Victoria, located at the Victoria Conference Centre and the Legislature Building. Preliminary to this MUN, hours were spent researching and constructing position papers to state our assigned country’s stance on the issue at hand. As...

On Thursday, January 8th, twenty students from Brentwood’s Debate/Model UN program embarked on a three day journey to Vancouver to participate in the seventeenth annual session of Vancouver Model United Nations (VMUN). This conference is the largest high school run model UN in North America, and one of the most well known and respected. With...

On a chilly Saturday in October, a business savvy looking team of determined MUNers hopped onto the bus, heels and all, and travelled to Shawnigan to compete with a multitude of other schools at SHAWMUN North. Upon arriving, we strode into our respective conference rooms, where we found our designated stations with our country's flag and the...

Early last Saturday morning, way before most Brentwood students would normally be stirring, 20 members of the Brentwood debate team boarded the school bus for the first debate tournament of the season. We were headed for the University of Victoria. This was a tournament specifically geared toward those debaters who have little or no experience at...

Here are Brentwood’s Arts Captains for 2017-2018 as announced in Assembly today. Drawing and Painting Anika P Musical Theatre Hannah R Wind Ensemble Zara P String Ensemble Francis V Debate John E & Morgan W Model UN Dylan C Public Speaking Sarah L Dance Hannah S Pottery Will H & Mark W 2D...

Each year, Brentwood's Debate/MUN team provides exciting opportunities. This year will, no doubt, be one of the best years for our Brentwood debaters, MUNers, and public speakers as we are participating in more and more competitions. Students will have a chance to showcase their abilities in events such as World Scholar’s Cup, VMUN, Golden Gnome,...

A week into the Fall term, Brentwood’s Arts program is in full swing. A walk around campus yesterday revealed our 530 artists participating in any two of the following: acting, sculpture, debate, public speaking, musical, ceramics, photography, yearbook, robotics, photojournalism, woodworking, theatre production, choir, jazz band, strings, rock...

In mid-July, 15 Brentwood students were given the great opportunity to travel to Greece and compete in this year’s World Scholar’s Cup Global Round in Athens. The days when we were not competing, we got acquainted with Greek culture and its history. We took it easy on the first day, with a half day tour around the city. We visited the Plaka, an...