SUCCESSFUL participants in the Rotary Youth Speaks competition will go on to the next round in Callington.

Those going on to the next round are Bright Sparks Youth Club, and two winning teams from St Catherine’s and Launceston College.

Each team was comprised of three children, a chair who managed the presentation, a speaker on a chosen subject, and a proposer to comment on the team’s talk.

The themes chosen were: Launceston College — ‘Should school uniform be compusory?’; Bright Sparks — ‘Manners, Manners’; St Catherine’s — ‘Are video games a healthy activity for primary schoolchildren?’

Youth Speaks, organised by Rotarian Dave Shrimpton, was the first round of a national public speaking competition organised by Rotary clubs.

The judges were the Launceston mayor, Cllr Margaret Young and Miss Julie Nettle, who told the large audience at Launceston Golf Club that the result was very, very close, and very difficult, having taken a very long time to make their decisions.

They added that this was due to the good quality of the presentations and the work involved.