Speeches.

This term Room 14 has been writing persuasive speeches! We had to write a persuasive speech trying to convince the Audience and the judges about your topic. My topic was "Why we should have a positive attitude." I chose this topic because I think students like us are not having a positive attitude! If we have a bad attitude at primary how would we act in the future?

We all had great speech topics and ideas. We spent nearly a whole block in the morning getting our speeches done. I've got to be honest. I was waiting to do speeches ever since last year! 

When I have finished writing my speech, proof reading it and making sure it makes sense, and then putting it on cue cards, it was finally time to practise and trying to memorising it before I present it in front of the class. When I presented my speech I felt really, really, really, nervous. I was quite happy of the fact that I was the last one to present that day. While we present our teacher will be judging us of how we present our speech, written it, practised and memorised it and she will be checking if we have done our success criteria. We even had a time limit of our speech. My time was 3.54, which was a bit to long. But I was happy it did not go over 4 minutes. 

 When everyone has presented their speech it is time to vote for our Class Finals. The people who gets into the Finals will have to present their speech again. We had to write 3 names on 1 piece of paper. We had to keep our votes anonymous, which mean we do not write our name or tell them who I am.  At the end of the day our teacher has counted all our votes she was ready to tell us. The class finals are: Ivorn, Faiupu, Luciano, Emalata (Me), Hermione and Dinah. I was kind of surprised because I made it to the class finals last year, and now this year. 

When I got home I practised, and cut my speech down so my time would be good! I was even more nervous this time because I'm in the class finals. 

The day came when I had to present my speech. I think I was really good because my time was 3.08! I was super happy. It's not too long and it's not too short. Just right! But I still kept doing my happy feet. (That was because I was super super shakey) 

After 1 day the teacher had a class meeting without the speech finalist. She said it was too hard for her to choose so the class chose with her. I was wanting to find out badly who was going but then we found at the end of the day. The speech finalist were:

Ivorn

Fai'upu

Hermione

Luciano

Congratulations!

These people went to the hall in Friday the 28th to present their speech. They were also competing with other classes. The judges were Mrs. Noakes, and Mrs. Shuster. It was a bit sad because I wasn't there to hear their wonderful speeches! But I heard that in 3rd place was: Faiupu, and Ma'asoama from Room 15,

In 2nd place was Hermione! Finally, in first place was   ..................

Ivorn! 

Congratulations Ivorn! Ivorns speech was " Why we should be ourselves"! I was happy though because I have heard Ivorns speech and I want to congrats her again.