The time has finally come to write and deliver a speech! Room 10 and 11 at Oakura School are getting ready to impress their classrooms! We have have been preparing by watching videos, and even had a guest speaker, Nigel, come and give us some advice on how to deliver a great speech.
When Nigel spoke to us he gave us lots of great tips. He said: be a part of your audience and believe in your topic. We brought back lots of information to guide us through speech making. He also talked about choosing the right topic for the right audience. The students have come up with some fun topics to entertain, to inform or to persuade us. We had to think about what our audience would enjoy and something that interests them.
We asked some of the students what they thought about speeches and whether they liked them or not. Most of the students informed us that they enjoyed the process of speech making. Some people liked them, and definately wanted to go through to the school finals. Others just enjoy getting time off homework to complete writing their speech. Some of the speech topics people have come up with are extrodanairy! Some of the topics people wanted to write about were: the top 10 ways to annoy your teacher, what it would be like to be famous and how to make a dog laugh.
Speeches are a great opportunity to become more confident in front of an audience. Everyone is putting their best effort in to write an incredible speech and deliver it with confidence. Good luck to everyone writing speeches!
By Emily and Kate.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Enormous effort, but mixed results
On the 20th of August 2013, St Joseph's Hawera came to Oakura School to compete in the 3rd round of the Taranaki interschool sport competition.
Football
"It was a good game, both teams played great!" said student coach Jason. After the whistle blew, St Joseph's scored a quick goal and went 1-0 up on Oakura. Roughly 15 minutes after that, Oakura came back to score 1 of their own to break even. Just before half time St Joseph's scored another goal to bring it to 2-1 at half time. Oakura brought on their subs and scored in the first couple of minutes. The rest of the game was very fast-paced and ended in a 4-4 draw. Gavin was awarded player of the day because he played amazing defence and did heaps of running.
Rugby
After a tough first half, Oakura came back with 4 brillant runaway trys and nice conversions. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to win the game. "I think the game went well and it was a good fare game and all the rugbt boys played very hard even though we were getting wasted the boy's pulled back in the second half to make the final 73-23 to them. A shout out to Matthew (chocalate bar) for commiting to everything," said Oscar (wiz).
Next week's games are on Wednesday the 28th of August against St Joseph's Stratford. Come out and support your children or your mates!
Football
"It was a good game, both teams played great!" said student coach Jason. After the whistle blew, St Joseph's scored a quick goal and went 1-0 up on Oakura. Roughly 15 minutes after that, Oakura came back to score 1 of their own to break even. Just before half time St Joseph's scored another goal to bring it to 2-1 at half time. Oakura brought on their subs and scored in the first couple of minutes. The rest of the game was very fast-paced and ended in a 4-4 draw. Gavin was awarded player of the day because he played amazing defence and did heaps of running.
Rugby
After a tough first half, Oakura came back with 4 brillant runaway trys and nice conversions. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to win the game. "I think the game went well and it was a good fare game and all the rugbt boys played very hard even though we were getting wasted the boy's pulled back in the second half to make the final 73-23 to them. A shout out to Matthew (chocalate bar) for commiting to everything," said Oscar (wiz).
Next week's games are on Wednesday the 28th of August against St Joseph's Stratford. Come out and support your children or your mates!
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