Rostrum Quarter Finals

On Tuesday evening Joel M (6JG) represented St Monica's at the district quarter-finals for Rostrum public speaking. The event was held in the library of Neville Bonner Primary School and Joel was competing against speakers from Belconnen and Gungahlin schools. 

As is always the case at these events, the standard of presentation was very high with speakers choosing from a range of topics. Joel spoke about 'Being Organised' and he held the audience's attention for 3 minutes with a mixture of humour, animated expression and family anecdotes. He was very funny and very entertaining. 

At the end of 7 different speeches, the adjudicators selected a wonderful speaker from Ngunnawal Primary School to continue onto the semi-finals. Joel was awarded a participation certificate and received positive feedback from the Rostrum representatives. He certainly did St Monica's proud.

Joel's family were in the audience and his Dad reckons there has been a big improvement in Joel's personal organisation since he started working on his speech. Good choice of topic Joel...... with an unexpected side effect.