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Sunday 13 September 2015

Speech Writing

Every year we have senior students represent YMS against other schools at local speech competitions.  This year we decided to have speech writing as a whole school writing focus and have a whole school speech competition at the end.

Over the last few weeks, students in Matai have been learning about how to structure a speech by starting with an introduction, highlighting three arguments on their topic and then concluding their speech.  We call this the hamburger speech model.


Our speech topic was "Schools should not give Homework".  All students in Matai had to present their completed speech to the rest of the class.  Three students from the class were then chosen to represent Matai at the whole school speech competition.

The school speech competition was held on Friday 11th September.  Tayla, Tilly and Xavier represented Matai.

Val Carter (Chairperson of Fendalton Waimairi Community Board - Christchurch City Council) kindly came to school to be our guest judge.



You can see Tayla, Tilly and Xavier's speeches below:








Well done to Xavier who took out 1st place, followed by Tayla in 2nd place and Tilly in 3rd place.  You guys were all amazing!




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