Haileybury and Model United Nations (MUN)
Model United Nations (MUN) is popular extra-curricular activity students in the senior school. Throughout the year, groups of students are chosen to form delegations which meet two times per week outside of school hours to practice writing and debating resolutions. These students then travel to several MUN conferences in the UK and mainland Europe to debate their resolutions.
Haileybury host their own Model United Nations conference every year (HMUN) for nearly 700 pupils making it largest MUN conference in the UK, the conference is typically held the weekend before the Easter Holiday with the committee rooms located in some of the iconic buildings on the Haileybury campus and the General Assembly taking place in the Sports Hall.
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