IGSA Festival of Speech
The IGSA Festival of Speech is an annual competition where girls from the IGSA schools across NSW and the ACT come together to compete and enjoy the spoken word in all its forms. It is a huge undertaking and the girls who represent the school dedicate hours in preparation time in the lead up to the Festival. This year’s team consisted of 17 girls, the maximum number of students a school can enter. The team events were Current Affairs with Georgia Tsangaris (Year 10), Emma Chang (Year 10) and Catherine Park (Year 11) and Religious and Ethical Questions with Sophia Papadakis (Year 10), Zoe Lindner (Year 10), Bianca Hardge (Year 10) and Helaina Travassaros (Year 10), who was the reserve. Sadie Juneja (Year 9), Pippa Brenner (Year 9), Astrid Hooper (Year 11) and Lucy Thomsen (Year 11) competed in the Soap Box division and delivered engaging and entertaining speeches on something that “gets their goat”. Marnie Flett (Year 8) and Susannah Sheumack (Year 11) competed in Poetry, Jessica Gallie (Year 8) and Celia Watson (Year 10) competed in Public Speaking and Sienna Kaddour and Sybilla Hooke competed in Readings.
It is a team event with every student who competes earning points for the school. This year SCEGGS came first in Religious and Ethical Questions and second in the Senior Reading section. A special congratulations to Sophia, Zoe, Bianca and Sybilla. As a team we came 2nd in the Senior Division and equal 5th overall. The whole team worked tirelessly toward this result. Special thanks also to Ms Dynielle Whitney who coached the girls in Religious and Ethical Questions and Anna Ho who prepared the Current Affairs team.
Congratulations to you all.
Elizabeth Walsh
Speech and Public Speaking
