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BPW UK - Public Speaking Competition 2009-10 

 

 

Eight teams of students from schools across Colchester, took part in the first round of the Business and Professional Women UK's annual public speaking competition for young people at the Colchester Royal Grammar School on Thursday 19th November 2009.

 

 

The winning team from the Colchester County High School for Girls whose talk entitled, 'Too Late to Say Sorry: Should we Apologise for the Past?' was extremely thought provoking and impressively delivered by Sruthi Mahadevan.

 

 

 

Catherine Padbury, obviously a committed vegetarian and a lover of animals, from the Stanway School who were runners up in the competition, gave a comprehensive and amusing speech with a somewhat provocative title: 'Is Meat Murder?'

 

 

 

The trophy for the best young team was awarded to the Gilberd School whose speaker Stephen Perrin by the end of a lively speech entitled 'State Spending is Out of Control' had set out his arguements for living within our means very clearly and had convinced us that there should be no such phrase as 'can't cut'.

 

 

 

Awards for the best expresser of thanks went to Luke Urwin from the Gilberd School and for the best chairman in the competition to Charlotte Richards from the Colchester County High School for Girls.  Victoria Polley from St Helena School, whose topic 'Facebook' gave us an enlightening and at times worrying insight into this and other social networking sites, won the best speaker award.

 

 

 

 

     

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