Pupils from King Edward’s School will be taking part in the 22^nd Bath International Schools’ Model United Nations Conference scheduled for this weekend.

Please find below a pdf copy of the Agenda for this event plus briefing notes for committees.

Pupils from King Edward’s School, Bath were delighted to receive awards at the Bristol Model United Conference which took place over the weekend of the 4^th and 5^th of February at Bristol Grammar School.

For all but one of the twelve King Edward’s School delegates this was their first Model United Nations  Conference. The KESBath pupils, from Years 9 and 10, were competing against twelve other schools from Bath, Chippenham, Bristol, Exeter and Taunton.  

King Edward’s pupils received the following awards;

Jim Brennan, Year 9, was awarded Best Young Delegate in the General Assembly, and his contribution to the Environment Committee was noted by the chairs.

Ella Schofield, Year 10, was awarded the prize for Best Delegate on the Security Council, an award which is always hotly contested.

Alex Musselwhite, Rory Whybrow, Ella and Jim, who collectively represented the United Kingdom, were awarded the prize for Best Delegation in the General Assembly debate. 

Ms Rich, Model United Nations Co-ordinator, commented: “A huge well done to all pupils who took part in the Bristol Model United Nations Conference. It was a delight to see every single pupil participating with confidence and insight in their respective committees. Several KESBath pupils submitted successful resolutions, and all engaged with the issues debated with maturity and eloquence. We wish them every success at future MUN events.”

King Edward’s pupils excelled once again at the 2011 international Model United Nations conference at Cheadle Hulme School, bringing home the coveted top prize for Best Delegation for a second consecutive year.

The Model United Nations operates in schools and universities across the globe, bringing young people together to debate pressing humanitarian, economic and political issues. Modelled on the real United Nations, schools are asked to send delegations of up to nine pupils to represent the interests of an individual country on various problem-solving committees, with the objective of creating, discussing, amending and hopefully passing resolutions on a range of globally pertinent topics. The annual conference at Cheadle Hulme sees around 600 delegates gather from schools in England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland and even the United States of America.

This year, 27 King Edward’s pupils represented the United States of America, Syria and Venezuela at the weekend-long conference. In their individual committees, our pupils were challenged to debate a plethora of issues, including euthanasia, medical testing, Middle East security, human rights abuses, piracy and water supply in LEDCs. All our delegates were then brought together for the General Assembly, in which they had to work as teams to respond to a diplomatic crisis between China and Algeria. The standard of debate proved to be higher than ever this year, and all of our pupils impressed with their confidence and eloquence during debate. Some of our delegates had never attended a Model UN conference before, and thus the way they threw themselves so enthusiastically into their committee work showed real courage and flair. All of our delegates performed extremely well, making the weekend a thoroughly rewarding and enjoyable experience for all involved.

We were particularly delighted that so many of King Edward’s pupils received individual awards, with fifteen of our 27 delegates being recognised at the end of the weekend. Michael Comba, Alex Bigwood, Natalie Rubner, Nas Andriopoulos, Sarah Glew, Finlay Knops-McKim, Ieuan Tranter, Mimi Trevelyan-Davis, Flossie Thomas, Cameron Davies and Alexi Andriopoulos were all either commended or highly commended in their committees. Georgia-Gregg Smith, Tom Youngman, Alex Prescot and Will Neaverson also received the highest individual prize for Best Delegate in their respective committees. The icing on the cake came when, for the second year running, King Edward’s School was presented with the coveted top prize for Best Delegation, which was awarded to nine of our Year 13 pupils representing the United States of America.

The weekend was undoubtedly a resounding success for the school, and the pupils involved really did King Edward’s proud. MUN is a pupil-led activity at KES, and thus it really is testament to the commitment, enthusiasm and sheer skill of our members that we continue to make such an impression nationally. We are now looking forward to defending our second national title at the Bath International School’s MUN conference at Kingswood School in March.

MUN report by Ms Rich

During the weekend of October 7-9 a group of 27 pupils from Year 11-13 will be attending the  annual Model UN conference at Cheadle Hulme School.

The group will be leaving at 4pm on the Friday 7^th October from King Edward’s School, Bath and returning around 7pm on the Sunday 9^th October.