Examples of Outdoor Advertising

Every year we run a pretty wonderful event. It's called The Great Debate and it goes a little like this…


All of the First Years and Second Years are put into pairs/threes in their respective year groups. Two weeks before the event they are given five questions, each of which could have a Yes or No response.


But here's the hook. The Great Debate is a knock-out tournament consisting of five rounds.


It is judged by Third Years and the students competing will not find out which questions is in which round until just before that round begins.


But more than that, they will not find out which side of the debate they must fight for until seconds before the match begins, giving them a moment or two to look at their notes before battles commences.


So it's all about understanding not only your argument, but also the perspective of your opponent. You have to, because the only way to win is by having a truly rounded understanding of all sides of each topic.

This year, it was the First Years who claimed glory and whilst we must congratulate Jag from the Creative Advertising Second Year who performed brilliantly to reach the final, our biggest applause is reserved for Carys Thomas, Stefan Renton and Callum Wright who won with a unanimous vote to claim the win.

Thanks to everybody involved for making it the best one yet and particular thanks also go out to San Ngan, Shaun Maclennan and Olamide Soyemi from the CA First Year for putting together the wonderful video that heads this post.

Every year at this time we get a flood of potential new students, eager to earn themselves a place on next years First Year.

This year is no different and we've experience a third consecutive year with a rise in the number of applications. Fantastic!

You see, it's like picking players for your team. You're looking for the right mix of talent, energy, personality and hunger and if you get the right bunch of people together, you can achieve anything.

So, line them up and send them in… We're waiting.