Speech Competition Gr 8 – 10

๐—ข๐˜‚๐˜๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ป๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—น ๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป

Union High School, Graaff-Reinet’s annual Junior Speech Competition was held on Monday evening, 8 May, in the Tony Burrell Union.

๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜บ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ’๐˜ด ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜ธ ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ’๐˜ด ๐˜Ž๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ 8๐˜ด, 9๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ 10๐˜ด ๐˜จ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ถ๐˜ฑ ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ต-๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ฐ๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ด๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ฃ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜Œ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฉ ๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ด.

Congratulations to all those who participated. They are: Amber Slater, Kazimla Mbalawa, Ben Lemke, Jamae-Mari Davids, Athayanda Mahlati, Bhukobenkosi Nomatye, Erin Gedult, Sinegugu Ntenteni, Cruz Pather and Someleze Ntshuca.

With speeches ranging from humorous to emotional, intellectual and serious, all who attended were captivated by the speakers and very impressed by the high quality of speeches and the obvious preparation that had gone into the evening.

๐™๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ ๐™ฌ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ก๐™™ ๐™ก๐™ž๐™ ๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฃ๐™  ๐™–๐™ก๐™ก ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ฅ๐™–๐™ง๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™˜๐™ž๐™ฅ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™จ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ซ๐™ค๐™ก๐™ซ๐™š๐™™ – it was pleasing to see so many enthusiastic learners presenting their speeches.

Congratulations to ๐—˜๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—š๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—น๐˜ (Grade 10) and ๐—•๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ธ๐—ฒ (Grade 9) who โ€“ based on their performance – were selected to represent the school at this yearโ€™s Interschoolsโ€™ speech competition later this year.

Raising Aspirations During Careers Week

As a part of vocational guidance, the Grade 12s enjoyed a dedicated ๐—–๐—”๐—ฅ๐—˜๐—˜๐—ฅ๐—ฆ ๐—ช๐—˜๐—˜๐—ž this past week, during which they were engaged with potential career paths and opportunities.

Private Institutions including Eduvos, CTU, Varsity College and Uxi Sport all gave informative talks on study options after matric.

๐˜–๐˜ฏ ๐˜ž๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ, ๐˜”๐˜ณ ๐˜Ž๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜“๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜”๐˜ณ ๐˜‘๐˜ฐ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฏ ๐˜›๐˜ข๐˜บ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ฑ๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ข ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข ๐˜ฑ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ญ๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ฌ๐˜บ ๐˜Ž๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ 12๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ง๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜”๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฃ๐˜ข ๐˜๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฎ.

The Grade 12s gathered again in the evening where local business-people spoke from the heart about life after school.

Mr Kallie Venter gifted the grade with a fascinating talk on Memory Pegs; Dawid and Karlien de Wet enlightened the group about the highs and lows of entrepreneurship; Mr Gerrar Maya gave a frank and amusing talk on becoming a chartered accountant and it was lovely to have Mr Hannes Lombard back at Union as he informed the grade about his journey into the insurance world.

Everyone enjoyed a convivial meal afterwards and worked as a team assisting Mrs Bronwen Langmead with the meal which was graciously cooked by our boarding house staff.

๐™’๐™š ๐™–๐™ง๐™š ๐™š๐™ญ๐™˜๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™š๐™™ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™จ๐™š๐™š ๐™ฌ๐™๐™š๐™ง๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ฎ๐™š๐™–๐™ง’๐™จ ๐™œ๐™ง๐™–๐™™๐™š 12๐™จ ๐™ฌ๐™ž๐™ก๐™ก ๐™œ๐™ค ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ž๐™ง ๐™˜๐™–๐™ง๐™š๐™š๐™ง ๐™˜๐™๐™ค๐™ž๐™˜๐™š๐™จ!

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