The Junior and Senior English Debating Societies are perhaps two of the earliest societies of the school. This Society has been immensely popular and has re-invented itself enormously over the past few years. It started a Public Speaking STA in 2011. Through its meetings as an STA and the meetings as a society, the EDS seeks to train boys in various forms of public speaking and debating. The Society trains boys in five debating formats: the Oxford School, the Cambridge School, the Cross-Examination, the Parliamentary and the World Schools’ Debating. The STA will seek to train the boys in impromptu speech, extempore speech, persuasive speech, argumentative speech, after-dinner speech and news-reading. The EDS sends representations to various inter-school and international competitions, and hosts the prestigious Chuckerbutty Memorial Debates of its own. Active membership should be sought by all boys. The ability to communicate clearly and succinctly in a confident manner is a skill required by all top class universities nationally and internationally; it is an advantage at job interviews, as an employee, or even in every-day life. Communication – verbally and on paper – is a perennial skill that is never off the educational agenda. It is never off the list of requirements by employers large and small, nationally and internationally, and in all sectors.