{"id":8376,"date":"2025-08-22T14:17:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/?post_type=article&#038;p=8376"},"modified":"2025-08-22T14:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:17:15","slug":"public-speaking-success","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/article\/public-speaking-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Speaking Success"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Amelie L (Year 9) is to be congratulated on her winning performance in the NSW Illawarra Regional Final of the Junior Public Speaking Award run by the NSW Education Department Arts Unit.&nbsp; Amelie delivered a prepared speech on our obsession with \u2018true crime\u2019 and also won the Impromptu speech section.&nbsp; She will now proceed to the NSW State Semi Final.&nbsp; Thank you to her coach Cath Taylor who has facilitated Amelie in refining her speech to give it broader appeal and develop her \u2018call for action\u2019 which is imperative in this competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2025\/08\/Update-Pictures-500x500-16.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2025\/08\/Update-Pictures-500x500-16.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2025\/08\/Update-Pictures-500x500-16.png 500w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2025\/08\/Update-Pictures-500x500-16-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2025\/08\/Update-Pictures-500x500-16-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amelie L (Year 9) is to be congratulated on her winning performance in the NSW Illawarra Regional Final of the Junior Public Speaking Award run by the NSW Education Department Arts Unit.&nbsp; Amelie delivered a prepared speech on our obsession with \u2018true crime\u2019 and also won the Impromptu speech section.&nbsp; She will now proceed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[3],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-8376","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-good-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/8376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=8376"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=8376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}