Exmoor Rotary: Youth Speaks
This competition is based on a public meeting. It offers young people:
- experience in speaking on a public platform
- incentive to formulate ideas on specific subjects
- discipline in dealing with a topic in a limited time
- opportunity to learn from others high standards of expression, presentation, and appearance
- experience in accepting impartial assessment and constructive criticism.
The local competition takes place in January) each year, the Area competition in February, and the District one in March. CLICK HERE FOR INTERMEDIATE LEVEL RESULTS.
YOUTH SPEAKS 2012 was held on Wednesday 25th January at Bampton School.
The John Owen Trophy (pictured on the right) is awarded annually to the school which wins the Junior Youth Speaks competition in our local area. It was given in memory of a previous headteacher of Dulverton Middle and Community School. See below for full list of winners. |
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The pictures below are from the 2011 event hosted at DULVERTON MIDDLE & COMMUNITY SCHOOL
Winners of the Junior competition (age 10-11) |
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Runners-up of the Junior competition |
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James, Marty & Sarah |
Katie, Cerys, and Jaden |
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Molly, Jessica, and Hannah |
Matthew, Bertie, and Tavey |
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Maisie, Abbie, and Megan |
Rhiannan, Hollie, and Alex |
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All the Winners 2012 |
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Junior final for Devon at St Lukes School & College in Exeter (March 5th 2011):
Our team from Bolham was there early with a pack of parents to support them plus their headmistress Laura Austen and their teacher/trainer Mr Perry. First on was Exeter Junior School who won the event with a talk about "A Young Person's perspective on censorship". Then we listened to Kentisbeare C of E school talking about "Getting to and from School". Our team from Bolham had drawn third place and Alexandra Mobbs talked about her passion for running with the title "Running as a Sport". Finally there was an hilarious talk from the Grove School at Totnes about "The Magic Bean" (chocolate). Our Bolham team had been practising their performance since they won our local competition at Dulverton and gave a much improved presentation, so much so that Aimee Langdon carried off the Best Chairperson title for the Juniors.
The judges said how impressed they were with the high standard of speaking and wished that some of the university graduates that they encountered could witness the standard.
In 2005, one Youth Speaks team made it to be interviewed on ITV