{"id":10984,"date":"2014-02-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abingdon.prod.twkmedia.eu\/prep\/2014\/02\/11\/oratory-school-u11-debating-competition\/"},"modified":"2023-10-31T13:55:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T13:55:48","slug":"oratory-school-u11-debating-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdon.org.uk\/prep\/oratory-school-u11-debating-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Oratory School U11 Debating Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"
Today a team of pupils from Years 5 and 6 won the Oratory School U11 Debating Competition. The team were given little over an hour to prepare their speeches in support of the motion: \u201cThis House believes that the burden of taxation should fall on the rich\u201d. Competing against 11 other schools, some of whom had travelled from London for the event, Abingdon Preparatory School were declared the overall winners. Well done to the team on this fantastic achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
11 February 2014 Today a team of pupils from Years 5 and 6 won the Oratory School U11 Debating Competition. The team…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,61,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-event-news","category-news-categories"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n