Public Speaking is a source of pride and achievement at Killarney Heights High School. Many of our students have achieved excellent results in the many competitions it which our school competes.
Competitions in which students can compete include the NSW Rostrum voice of Youth, the Sydney Morning Herald Plain English Competition, the Legacy Public Speaking Competition and the Lions Club Youth of the Year. We also have our own competition which runs through the Toastmasters Course.
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Killarney Heights High School is very lucky to have the annual opportunity to run a Junior Toastmasters course for our talented and interested public speakers.
This course runs in Term 3 each year and consists of 8 weeks of meetings which commence at 6:45 pm and finish at about 9pm in the A Block Common Room.
Any student is welcome to attend and we hope that the enduring legacy of success in public speaking, debating and Mock Trial, enjoyed by Killarney students, will continue to be enhanced by this popular and exciting course.
Toastmasters challenges our speakers by teaching them business meeting procedures and providing them with strategies that enable them to express themselves coherently and articulately in impromptu and planned speaking situations. The course culminates with a showcase meeting to which a public audience is invited. These final meetings provide a fantastically entertaining night.
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Killarney Heights High School has a strong and successful tradition of Debating. Within the school, we run lessons in debating techniques within the junior English programs and this culminates with the inter-class Rose debating competition, held for each junior Year.
We also enter the Premier’s Debating Challenge which conducts interschool competitions for Years 7-8, 9-10, 11 (The Karl Cramp Trophy) and 12 (The Hume Barbour Trophy)