School Speech Competition

Every student in Room 13 wrote and presented a persuasive speech on a topic of their choice. We had so many different topics in our class that ranged from convincing people that chewing gum should be banned, to encouraging us to save the endangered white tigers, to New Zealander's should be given a 3 day weekend, not 2 days (many of us agreed with that one!).

Some topics even made us think about our own learning, like Wei Kun's speech about should writing books be replaced with chromebooks?

We then voted for our favourite speech contestant. Our finalists then represented our class at the school speech competition. 

Our finalists were:

• Abdullah whose topic was on racism,
• Seo Ram who convinced many of us that chewing gum should not be banned
• and Jessica, who posed the question should students stay home if they are sick?

Here's a quick recount written about the beginning of the finals by Noah and Antonio:

On Friday the twenty second of August 2014 it was the school speech finals and the contest was inside the hall. People were cheering for the kids for the contest and then... the contest started. The lovely Mrs Stuart and Ms Noakes were the lovely judges. All the kids were super pumped. The first kid that went up was David and his speech was about racism. The judges were looking for the people with fluency and eye contact. 

Speech Finalist

Today was the day where the speech finalists gather together. Thinking, writing, practicing, presenting. These were the topics that were presented, bullying, stay home when your sick, be happy, bubble gum should not be banned, racism, black, white and asian. These were the people that presented: David, Seoram, Abdullah, Maasoama, Faiupu, Jessica, Andre, Atita, Redha. It was all in the hall, no one was scared, stand up straight and teachers saying great. Good that the teachers weren't so late. Time to present, right now, right here, present with no fear.

By Abdullah, Pesa & Amusia