St John’s School held the finals of their Public Speaking competition at the school last Wednesday. Pictured above are Year 2’s finalists Sophia Le Lievre, Michael Rogers and Xavier Foster, whose topic was ‘Country life is better than city life’. Students in other classes were tasked with discussing the benefits/disadvantages of three day weekends, the pros and cons of shorter school days, gave their views on nets in the oceans and Kinders were required to recite a nursery rhyme. The competition’s judges were impressed with the students’ highly developed speaking skills.
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