Bridmore Public Speaking Competition

On Monday we held the finals of both the Junior and Senior Bridmore Public Speaking Competition, one of the highlights of the Sandroyd calendar.  It represents the culmination of much hard work; selecting topics, researching, drafting and re-working speeches, practising, further editing and then taking part in class heats to select the finalists.

Every child in the Prep School takes part, writing a speech to either inform (Years 3-6) or persuade (Years 7 and 8). This is a wonderful opportunity for the children, to challenge themselves and to hone their writing, oratory and performance skills to engage their audiences.

The quality of the speeches and the poise of the contestants, from the youngest to the oldest, was superb. The Juniors regaled us with details of favourite hobbies, famous and lesser-known, explorers and topics as diverse as the life of a military child and space.

The breadth of the topics chosen by the Seniors was incredibly ambitious, and topical, and ranged from the hazards of opioid painkillers and the over-crowding in prisons to the ecological benefits of forest fires, and the side effects of a vegan diet.

All contestants spoke with confidence and clarity and our guest judge for the Senior final, Mr James Watson, Headmaster of Milton Abbey School, was extremely impressed by the calibre of the Sandroyd pupils.

As ever, it was very difficult to select the winners as there was so little to choose between them.

Overall winners of the Junior Competition:

Y3 & 4 winner - Isla.

Runner Up - Wilf H.

Y5 & 6 winner - Bella C.

Runner Up - Margot G.

The overall winner of the Senior Competition was Tilly H.

Runner Up - Anto.

Highly Commended prizes to Jimena and James H.

Congratulations to all our pupils, finalists, and of course the winners, for a superb competition that was both informative and highly entertaining.

Junior Finals

Senior Finals