A TEAM of students from Tavistock College have made it into the regional finals of a national competition ? the best result from a school in this area in the history of the event. The Year 8 team of Tess Bentley, Charlie Hubbard and Bob Finbow first won the intermediate stage of the Rotary International Youth Speaks competition at Kelly College last week, with a speech about stereotyping and labelling. Then last Thursday, the same team travelled to Callington College to compete in the regional semi-finals of the competition ? and won again. Tony Whitehead, junior president for Tavistock Rotary Club, said: ?To my knowledge we have never had a team that has got this far. ?This event helps boost confidence in young people. It is good these young people do this.? Tavistock College teacher Sally Hubbard said the focus of the team?s speech was that everyone is an individual and that labelling people can be hurtful. Mrs Hubbard said the team?s performance was ?just brilliant? with plenty of dramatic content and humour, which received ?loads of laughs?. Mrs Hubbard said: ?Their delivery and humour was exceptional ? no comparison! The judge could not help but say well done at the end, even though they had not announced the winner and there were more to go.? The team will now go forward to the regional finals of the competition, which is being held in Hayle, Cornwall, on March 4. If successful, they will go on to the national final at Salford University in Greater Manchester. Also taking part in Thursday?s competition at Callington were the senior winners of the competition from Kelly College, who came third in their section. The Year 9 Tavistock College team of George Coiley, Josh Evans and David Corralles last week competed in the senior section against sixth formers ? and were congratulated on the intellectual content of their speech. The public speaking competition Youth Speaks is run by Rotary International every year and regularly attracts hundreds of school students from throughout the country. l the Tavistock and Kelly college teams who took part in the competition are pictured.