PUBLIC SPEAKING AND DEBATING
Kew High School
Model United Nations Debating
Our Model United Nations Team of Lukas Matovinovic and Skye Laing made it through to the Evatt Model United Nations Debating Semi-Final as delegates for the United Kingdom, held at the historic Queens College.
This is an amazingly high standard contest especially since Global Politics and Australian Politics are not part of our VCE offerings at Kew High School; students from independent schools who enter this contest are almost always students of these subjects. Our students are knowledgeable global citizens and as delegates for their countries earned their place in the semi-final of this prestigious event.
Great communications skills and passion can take you far, our students gallantly and professionally debated, persuasively spoke, used diplomacy, negotiation skills with an in-depth understanding of current world affairs. Skye and Lukas made it through to the semi-final, the only regular entry Government School to compete on this day.
Regional Rounds
Three teams competed in the 2017 Evatt Model United Nations Contest Regional Rounds. Our teams were the honourable delegates for:
England - Year 10 Aaron Korczowski and Simon Vuong
Uruguay - Year 12 Skye Laing and Lukas Matovinovic
Kazakhstan - Year 12 Finn Byrne and Ferris Hansen
Elaine Doyle
Public Speaking Coordinator
Legacy Junior Public Speaking competition
I took part in the Legacy Junior Public Speaking competition. It was a competition held for junior students. Five were chosen to perform in the next round. It was held throughout a whole school day and many students from different schools from our region gave speeches. It was very interesting listening to the other speeches and other points of views as well as interacting with other students I didn’t know.
There were two parts to the competition: one was where I had to give a speech that I had written prior to the competition, and the second part was when I had a certain amount of time where I had to write a speech then present it, on a given prompt. It was great fun listening to other speeches and the feedback of the judges and getting to know students from other schools.
I thank the teachers a lot for helping and supporting me throughout the process.
Ananya Goswami
Year 8