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well balanced address to the Assembly on the issues raised by those events which was extremely well received by all in the Congress Hall. Do view this on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n- Wkq_Yhe0o All of the sessions were conducted in English and the standard of the other delegations language was incredibly high.

Nine of our Upper Sixth students, having won the UK national EYP debating competition in July in Liverpool, were invited to attend the EYP International Session in Leipzig in November. Some twenty four national delegations from across Europe, including Russia, Ukraine, Georgia and Armenia, assembled for a week of intensive research and debate concluding in a General Assembly. There was some relaxation time including a very high standard concert put on by the students in which Hugo Khan received a standing ovation for his singing finale.

The Tiffin delegation consisted of Jon Dunne, Tom Mills, Jack Nicholson, Michael Tallent, Joe Mackenzie, Louis Sutcliffe, Haris Amin, Joshua Richards and Hugo Khan. A huge well-done to them all. Mr Marley said they were “truly fabulous”.

The UK delegation was separated into international committees who had to research topics and propose new policies which were then debated and voted upon in the General Assembly. All of the Tiffin students contributed to the highly complex debates, some speaking from the podium and others from the floor of the Congress Hall, speaking to over 300 students, teachers, and invited guests from across the EU and the Council of Europe. On the Saturday morning, after the Paris atrocities, Louis Sutcliffe made a short, sensitive and