{"id":25824,"date":"2026-06-18T10:10:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/?post_type=article&#038;p=25824"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:10:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:10:50","slug":"public-speaking-27","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/article\/public-speaking-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Pippa Brenner (Year 12) and Siena Walsh (Year 8) who both came in first at the Rostrum Voice of Youth State Finals on Saturday.\u00a0 Around 900 students entered the competition and they are through to the National Final where the four top students from each Division represent their State.\u00a0 They have both dedicated numerous hours of research, writing and rehearsing speeches, as well as practicing impromptu speaking and it is a huge achievement to make it this far.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The National finals will be held on Saturday, July 25 at the Independent Theatre in North Sydney.\u00a0 I will publish more details closer to the date.\u00a0 Anyone is welcome to attend to support the girls.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25825\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/06\/Siena-and-Pippa-Stae-Final-Rostrum-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/06\/Siena-and-Pippa-Stae-Final-Rostrum-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/06\/Siena-and-Pippa-Stae-Final-Rostrum-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/06\/Siena-and-Pippa-Stae-Final-Rostrum-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/06\/Siena-and-Pippa-Stae-Final-Rostrum-113x150.jpeg 113w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/06\/Siena-and-Pippa-Stae-Final-Rostrum.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Elizabeth Walsh<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Speech and Public Speaking Co-ordinator<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Pippa Brenner (Year 12) and Siena Walsh (Year 8) who both came in first at the Rostrum Voice of Youth State Finals on Saturday.\u00a0 Around 900 students entered the competition and they are through to the National Final where the four top students from each Division represent their State.\u00a0 They have both dedicated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":25737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-25824","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/25824","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=25824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=25824"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=25824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}