{"id":45835,"date":"2026-06-05T12:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T02:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/?post_type=article&#038;p=45835"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T02:31:12","slug":"senior-public-speakers-excel-at-competitions-2","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/article\/senior-public-speakers-excel-at-competitions-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Public Speakers Excel at Competitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Regional Inner West Final: Plain English Public Speaking Competition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday, two of our Senior Public Speaking students took part in the Regional Inner West Final of the Plain English Public Speaking competition. Among a field of twelve talented speakers, each student was required to deliver an eight-minute prepared speech to a panel comprising three judges. Following this, they faced the challenge of an impromptu section, where they had just three minutes to prepare a speech in response to the prompt, <em>&#8216;a huge gamble&#8217;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Harriet Hahn<\/strong> (Year 12) represented MLC School for the final time and delivered a polished and impressive performance in both the prepared and impromptu sections. Her efforts were rewarded as she secured a place in the State Semi Final, which will be held on <strong>Thursday 18 June.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meena Kanthathas<\/strong> (Year 11) participated in this competition for the first time and presented a strong performance. During the competition, she was thrilled to discover that she had advanced to the Grand Final of the Dame Enid Lyons Oratory competition. This Grand Final is scheduled for next <strong>Wednesday 10 June 2026,<\/strong> at the NSW Parliament House.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:arowe@mlcsyd.nsw.edu.au\"><em><strong>\u2013 Dr Andrea Rowe<\/strong><\/em><\/a><br \/>\nOratory Coordinator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regional Inner West Final: Plain English Public Speaking Competition Last Thursday, two of our Senior Public Speaking students took part in the Regional Inner West Final of the Plain English Public Speaking competition. Among a field of twelve talented speakers, each student was required to deliver an eight-minute prepared speech to a panel comprising three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":45692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[15],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-45835","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-co-curricular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/45835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=45835"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=45835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}