{"id":25563,"date":"2026-05-21T11:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/?post_type=article&#038;p=25563"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:53:16","slug":"the-junior-secondary-public-speaking-competition-for-years-7-9","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/article\/the-junior-secondary-public-speaking-competition-for-years-7-9\/","title":{"rendered":"The Junior Secondary Public Speaking Competition for Years 7 &#8211; 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Junior Secondary Public Speaking Competition is a competition run by the Department of Education for students in Years 7, 8 and 9.\u00a0 SCEGGS can enter two students in the competition and trials will be held in week 8.\u00a0 Students present a five minute prepared talk on a topic of their choice and an impromptu speech of two minutes with five minutes preparation time.\u00a0 Both speeches will be trialled.\u00a0 For students who would like to trial there will be a sign-up sheet at the Speech room, OG12, by the end of week 6 and a trial time will be assigned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More information can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/artsunit.nsw.edu.au\/program\/junior-secondary-speaking-award\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If students have any questions please come and see me in the Speech Room or <a href=\"mailto:elizabethwalsh@sceggs.nsw.edu.au\">email me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elizabeth Walsh<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Speech and Public Speaking Co-ordinator<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Junior Secondary Public Speaking Competition is a competition run by the Department of Education for students in Years 7, 8 and 9.\u00a0 SCEGGS can enter two students in the competition and trials will be held in week 8.\u00a0 Students present a five minute prepared talk on a topic of their choice and an impromptu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[],"article_tag":[55],"class_list":["post-25563","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_tag-public-speaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/25563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=25563"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=25563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}