Burwood Rotary Club Speech Craft Night

On 3 December Veronica Kwong and Daniel Holland of Year 8 represented Fort Street High School at the Burwood Rotary Club Speech Craft Night. The evening featured 21 speakers from a wide variety of public and private schools. Daniel says “it was a pretty good learning experience and it was a good chance to interact with people from other schools and get some constructive feedback about public speaking.” He further thought “it was an interesting exercise to just write the speech to the given prompt and criteria.  But then it was also good to have creativity. To be allowed to write what you want and it was not a hard-set list of criteria. So you could bend the prompt to however you wanted to give your speech.”

Both students presented beautifully written and wonderfully creative speeches. Veronica’s speech was thought provoking and the judges said that she had a good command of the audience, excellent voice projection and a ‘dead pan sense of humour’. Daniel was mentioned as one of the most engaging speakers of the night and complimented on his charisma in captivating the audience with his speech. Both students were supported by their wonderful family members well into the late evening. We thank both students and their families (young siblings included) for giving up their time and showcasing the talents of our school so well.

Jenny Xu
Year 8 Advisor