The recently founded debating society is another merit of the school, recently winning the national 'Debating Matters' competition at the Royal Society of Medicine, having never previously entered. Nearly 200 schools entered and the Hutton team won all 8 of their debates. The 2015 Hutton debating team won the Lancashire regional heat, which sent them through to the North West & North Wales regional final, which they went on to win. Hutton eventually lost out in the group stages of the national finals in June 2015. However, a year later, the 2016 cohort reached the final of the national finals, finishing runners up. It was the first time Hutton had reached the national finals in consecutive years.