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EVERY year the Year 6s are involved in a leadership program. This is where the Year 6s pick a leadership team to go in. There is Social Justice and Fairness awareness. We wanted to find out what they did in Social Justice so we asked a member of the group. “We visit the elderly and we raise funds for poverty some of them are the milking goats project and breast cancer,” Harrison Keeling said. “Do you enjoy going to Golden Wattle?” we asked Ella Davidson and Zac. They said: “We loved going to Golden Wattle it’s a great experience to interact with elderly people”. Golden Wattle is where the Social Justice committee go and see the elderly they talk and play games with them and have lots of the fun. Social Justice is fund-raising for the breast cancer foundation by letting us where pink and bringing a gold coin donation on Friday 15 November. Another one of their projects is saving the gorillas; they collected phones for their Colton to give to the zoo to stop forests getting cut down, where the gorillas are living. In fairness awareness we are making a newspaper, we went down the street to ask for sponsors for our newspaper. We are also making the school more comfortable to study in for ex-
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Brigid’s, both Bonnie and Augustus had written and performed good speeches - this is what they were about. Augustus said: “The point I was trying to get across is that we cannot keep on building out but need to build up. I thought this was a good topic to do alongside ‘If I could change the world’ I’m passionate about this topic because eventually we will run out of space on ground, so we will need to build up.” “His speech was innovative and created a good sense of establishment.” said Sam, one of the supporters at the competition. Bonnie said: “The subject of my
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LOCAL primary schools in Healesville participated in the Rotary Speech Competition on 28 August. The competition was held at Healesville High School. On the night, the competitors were judged by eye contact, humour, clear voices, subject of text, and timing. Once two minutes had passed, the timekeeper would turn on a yellow light, and if speakers hadn’t finished by three minutes the timekeeper would turn on a red light, which would mean that they had thirty seconds to finish otherwise loose points.
After each contestant had finished their speech, there would be a minute’s silence so that the judges could total the scores. After all of the contestants had spoken the judges would deliberate and add up scores in a separate room. Each of the competitors had a choice of subject and some of them were: ‘If I could change the world’, ‘Someone I admire’, ‘Why we should all watch the Simpsons’ and a few more. On the night everyone performed and wrote a good speech, but at the end of the competition it was the judges you had to appeal to. The representatives from St
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