A pupil from The Blandford School scooped best individual speaker at the Rotary Club’s Youth Speaks district final recently.
Lucy Ahsan (pictured with the other members of her team, Emma Watling and Odette Miller, from The Blandford School) won the award for the best individual speaker at the Youth Speaks district final in Romsey on Saturday March 4.

Judges commented on how her talk, in support of the motion Should young people be allowed to use social media? was ‘engaging’ and she was able ‘to draw the audience in’.
Having won the area competition, Shaftesbury School and The Blandford School represented Shaftesbury and Blandford Rotary Clubs at the district final.

The eventual senior winners were St Anne’s Catholic School with their talk on The negative influence of influencers. The intermediate winners in a closely fought contest were Rookwood School from Andover with their talk Let’s ban fairy tales.
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