Model United Nations Conference

On Saturday, the sixth Model United Nations conference was held at SPS – the first as a collaborative event with SPGS.

The conference was attended by 250 students, including delegates from 15 other schools. 20 SPS/SPGS students – Eighth Form students, Angel Ellis (Secretary General), Will Palmer, Xavi Costafreda-Fu, Dermot Christmas, Tony Liu, Fergus Walsh, Jonny Brown, Aidan Wong, Ibrahim Khan, John Moretti, Theo Westcott, Duncan Wong, Alexis Brian, Sam Grosz, Sai Singh Bhatia, Max Swinnerton, Eli Joseph, Anna de Vilder, Nikita Kurgan and Tisya Gaal – were responsible for organising and running the event. This involved selecting the topics, writing the briefing packs, chairing the six different committees, supervising the closing event of the conference (a General Assembly debate on a Crisis topic: the discovery of uranium deposits in western Sahara) and working hard to ensure that the event ran smoothly. Teachers from visiting schools commented that their students enjoyed the conference enormously, and the standard of preparation and debate was extremely high.