Craig Moss – Co-ordinator of Gifted & Talented 7-12

Competitions round up

Two competitions took place during Week 6: 

Rostrum Voice of Youth Competition

On Wednesday 9 March 2022, Elise Goldberg and Leah Josuah represented Emanuel School in the Rostrum Voice of Youth Competition. Here is what Elise had to say about her experience: 

Our topic for our speeches was ‘This Time it Will Be Different’. In my six-minute speech I told a humorous story about my first ever solo singing performance, which was well received by the audience. It was an amazing experience that I benefited from greatly, I had the opportunity to present my speech, listen to others and get amazing one on one feedback from experienced educators. I remember after listening to all the powerful speeches other students gave how inspired I felt. I would recommend the competition to all students next year, even if you aren’t the best public speaker, all that matters is that you give it a go. It truly is an amazing opportunity to develop your public speaking skills in a positive and encouraging environment. By Elise Goldberg

HICES Debating Competition

Congratulations to our Year 11 Team, Maayan Granot, Arielle Melamed, Jake Newfield and Daniel Solomon, who won a hard fought debate on Thursday 10 March 2022 in their Round One fixture in the Open Division against Moriah. 

The topic was “That there should be a minimum age of 21 for entering university”. Moriah was affirmative, Emanuel was negative.

Well done to Maayan Granot who was acknowledged as best speaker and Jake Newfield who was recognised as second best!