Year 10 Drop Down Day
The day started off with all Year 10 English classes in their designated classroom with their teacher and a workshop leader from the Jack Petchey Foundation.
We listened to an introduction about Jack Petchey and learnt ground rules about respect. We discussed our speech ideas and learnt about the common structure of a speech and tips, for example the usefulness of anecdotes to catch the attention of the audience.
Despite the focus being on public speaking, we came to appreciate the importance of non-verbal aspects of public speaking, such as maintaining eye contact, hesitating and pausing and even hand gestures in getting our points across.
In small groups we practised making speeches about the most random topics, stressing to us that the day was more about speech structure and performance rather than content. We all enjoyed this freedom and opportunity to be creative.
Whilst some of our more confident public speakers enjoyed being put forward into the next round of the Jack Petchey award, we all benefited from the opportunity to build confidence but also practise our public speaking skills in preparation
for our GCSE English language speech.
Olivia P, 10POR & Zoja B 10FSO
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