Concern Primary Debate Information 2021/2022

 2021/ 2022 Concern Debate -  Information Evening

The Concern Primary Debates has started and will be adapting to an online format in light of COVID 19 restrictions and safety of students and teachers.

The Concern Primary Debates is an educational debating programme aimed at senior primary classes. The Concern Debates aims at introducing topics of development to both students and teachers through the motions to engage students in public speaking and higher order thinking skills around topics such as Climate Change, Poverty and Sustainable Development. Concern are on hand to provide support to teachers and students.

Find out more about the Concern Primary Debates here: https://www.concern.net/schools-and-youth/debates/primary-school

In this session teachers will

• Learn about the structure of the Concern Primary Debates
• Find out how to take part in the programme
• Learn about the new changes and how the competition will be going online
• How Concern can support teachers and students through easy to use resources, videos and online talks and webinars for classes.

All Schools  wishing to compete in the Primary Concern Debate Competition will need to attend this information evening as schools will be grouped at this meeting. Unfortunately  late entries cannot be accepted as all groups and parties will be finalised and information shared with other schools who are competing against one another . Motions and timelines for the whole competition are shared at this meeting and only 1  submission per school  can take part. All the protocols of how to take part will be outlined and shared with each school at the Information Meeting.

We are delighted with the sucess of the CONCERN Debates Project this academic year. Congratulations and thank you to all teachers and pupils involved in the project. Your involvment continues to make this project the sucess that it continues to be.

A special word of congratulations to our Regional Finalists this year, Danescastle NS & St. Anne's NS, Rathangan. Danescastle NS emerged victorious from this final on Monday 28th March. Thank you very much to both schools.  

We wish Danescastle every sucess in the upcoming National Finals to be held in the coming weeks.

Our 2 Schools Through to Final

Final to be Completed Between  28^th January – 11^th March 2021

Motion:  Shopping Local Must Become The New Normal   

       Proposing                                                   Opposing         

Danescastle NS          Vs          St. Annes NS, Rathangan 

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List of Schools Through to Semi Final

Semi  Final :  To be completed between 16^th December  – 14^th  January 2022

Motion:  We Need To Pay More For Our Clothes To Fight Fast Fashion 

   Proposing                                         Opposing

  Tara Hill NS, Gorey      Vs         Danescastle NS    

  St. Annes NS, Rathangan        Vs         St. Brigid’s NS, Grange    

List of Schools Through to Round 2

Motion:  Sustainable Cities Should Have Free, Regular Public Transport Available To Everyone

A:         Danescastle NS                         Vs           B:     Bunscoil Loreto NS                                                                 

C:          Barnstown NS                            Vs           D:     Rathangan NS

E:         St. Brigid’s NS, Grange          Vs            F:      Scoil Mhuire, Horeswood

List of Schools participating in 2021/2022 Project

Please see the list of schools who are taking part in our 2021/2022 Debates Project. Best of luck to all our schools.

   Scoil Mhuire, Horeswood                        

   Davidstown NS                                   

   Bunscoil Loreto                               

  Carysfort NS                                      

  St. Mary’s NS                                                                                          

 SN Fionntain                                        

Court NS                                             

Galbally NS      

St. Brigid’s NS, Grange       

Ballythomas NS     

 Danescastle NS  

Carnew NS

Tara Hill NS

Rathangan NS

AN Mhuire, Barntown  NS                            

Glenbrien NS

MOTIONS 2021/2022

• Tik Tok has done more harm than good for young people’s confidence 

• Sustainable cities should have free, regular public transport available to everyone 

• We need to pay more for our clothes to fight fast fashion 

• Shopping local must become the new normal 

• Billionaires should not go to space

• Sport’s stars are bad role models for children 

Dates of each Round

Round 1 – Monday 4^th October 2021 – Friday 5th November 2021

• Tik Tok has done more harm than good for young people’s confidence 

Quarter Final – 8th  November 2021 – 3rd  December 2021

• Sustainable Cities Should Have Free, Regular Public Transport Available To Everyone

Semi Final – 6th  December 2021 – 14^th January 2022

• We need to pay more for our clothes to fight fast fashion

Final - 17^th January 2022 – 11^th February 2022

• Shopping local must become the new normal

All debates to be completed by 18^th February.

Please see Primary Debates 2021/2022 calendar:

Please see Primary Debates 2021/2022 Handbook

 Please see Primary Debates Introductory Video

2020/2021 concern debates

• Danecastle NS
• Rathangan NS 
• S.N. Mhuire Barntown
• Scoil Mhuire Rosslare 
• Murrintown NS 
• Castletown NS 

Congratulations to all the schools that took part in this year's competition. We wish to thank the teachers, students and adjudicators who had to adapt to the new online format this year, from the tweets we received there were  some incredible battles during the competition stages . We congratulate Rathangan NS and S.N. Mhuire Barnstown who have made it to the final . We look forward to the final debate as soon as possible. 

2019/2020 Concern Debates 

The following schools took part in the 2019/2020 competition 

• Barntown NS
• Tara Hill NS
• Danecastle NS
• Murrintown NS
• Rosslare NS
• Scoil Eoin BaistNS,Galbally
• Scoil Ghormain Naofa
• St Josephs NS
• Tombrack NS
• Bunscoil Loreto, Gorey
• Mercy NS Wexford
• Mayglass NS
• Cushinstown NS
• Court NS
• Davidstown NS

They competed against each other on a range of different motions provided by Concern. Congratulations to all the schools who took part, we hope you all enjoyed yourselves and that participating in debates is something you will continue to do in Post-Primary school. Thank you to all the adjudicators,teachers and students for the wonderful work you did in making this such an enjoyable competition for everyone concerned.

This year due to the Covid 19 pandemic, we did not get a chance to have our Primary Concern Debate Final in the Education Centre as planned. The two schools who were due to compete against each other on the following motion 'Young people should be allowed to vote at 16" are Castletown NS and Mercy NS, Wexford.