What an amazing day! The stage finals were held on Thursday and were a very successful culmination of the school’s work on persuasive text. The enthusiasm of the students for this task was fantastic.

Congratulations to all the students who participated over the past 3 weeks in speech writing, practice and competition within the classroom, grade and finally across the stages.  Public speaking is one of the most important and often dreaded forms of communication. People have many reasons for engaging in public speaking, but the necessary skills are applicable whether someone is speaking to inform, persuade or entertain. We chose to focus on persuasive speeches to complement the classroom outcomes on persuasive text.

The audiences were truly amazed and entertained by the variety of topics and quality of the speeches. It certainly had the Adjudicator, Ms Hayley Jago, making some very difficult decisions in choosing winners, runners-up and highly commended students.

The stage winners were as follows and will receive their certificates at morning assembly.

Early Stage 1:

Winner: Molly 

Runner-up: Aurelia

Highly Commended: Cole and Ben

Stage 1:

Winner: Sonni

Runner-up: Amelia

Highly Commended: Sienna 

Stage 2:

Winner: Rose

Runner-up: Max 

Highly Commended: Hugo

Stage 3:

Winner: Charlie 

Runner-up: Henry 

Highly Commended: India 

Thank you Ms Jago for your wonderful feedback and helpful tips. Thank you also to all the staff who did such a great job of encouraging and supporting their students over the past weeks in order for us to have such a successful event.

I am sure everyone has collected a few helpful tips for 2020’s competition and will put these great skills to good use in their classroom work.

Susan Russell

Teaching and Learning:

Diverse needs: Gifted and Talented