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SOUTH COAST PUBLIC SPEAKING COMPETITION
The South Coast Public Speaking Competition was held on the evening of Tuesday August 20 at Holy Spirit College, Bellambi. Our students spoke about topics from ‘Interesting People’ to ‘Making it Count’ and ‘My Legacy’. All students spoke extremely well and proudly represented our school. A big thank you to the parents who transported and supported our students on the night of the competition.
| GRADE | STUDENT |
| Year 11 | Dominic Plattner |
| Year 11 | Ethan Westlake – 2nd Place |
| Year 9 | Jacob Heys – 2nd Place |
| Year 8 | Clayton Van Leeuwen |
| Year 7 | Lauren Clancy |
| Year 7 | Emily Csellich |
| Year 7 | Lara Grimson – 2nd Place |
| Year 7 | Isabelle Plattner |
RESULTS
This term, 14 students from St Joseph’s Catholic High School prepared and presented solutions in the South Coast Tournament of Minds Competition at the University of Wollongong. Two teams competed in STEM and Arts categories.
ARTS TEAM
Lauren Clancy
Harvey Andrews
Lucas Thompson
Emma Schulz
Ruby Oliver
River Jardim
Lara Wishart
STEM TEAM
Isabelle Plattner
Cooper Reay
Kailtyn Michlmayr
Neave Keenan
Alex Bierczynski
James Windle
Harry Barnett
The Stem team presented their challenge including a wonderful machine constructed by the group which rotated to collect DNA samples from 5 endangered species. Unfortunately, they did not achieve a place in the competition results despite a strong attempt.
The Arts team, however, presented their challenge as outlined below. They performed a highly entertaining response to the challenge using the local suburb as the context for a new Wizard of Aus. A comedy element and polished quality resulted in a WIN for this team over Corpus Christi, Nowra and Smiths Hill High Schools.
Wizard of Aus Challenge
INTRODUCTION
The Wizard of Oz is a story where the characters go in search of things they desire. The Tin Man is searching for a heart, the Lion wants courage, the Scarecrow needs a brain and Dorothy wants to go home. They come across hurdles such as the Wicked Witch and need to work together as a team to get away.
CHALLENGE
You will be rewriting The Wizard of Oz as if it is set in your State, Territory or Country. You need to choose where your ‘Yellow Brick Road” will start and end and who your characters will be. What hurdles will your characters come across and how will they overcome them? Your team needs to choose an overarching concept for your presentation, for example, power, faith, resilience, perspective or growth (but not limited to these). Students will use creative backdrops showing the scene of the story include justification of the choice of concept to guide the presentation, use at least two original songs that are relevant to the story and explain each character’s chosen desire, and the challenges they had to face and overcome as well as the reasons for their inclusion.
The Win for the Arts team means they will now compete at the State TOMs Championship with a new 3 hour challenge and another Spontaneous Challenge at the University of NSW in Sydney on September 15.
We would like to thank Miss Swift, Mr Ie and Mr Lemmon for their support in the preparation of both teams this year.
