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Thematic Group Speaking Teams Sparkled at Speech Festival

12/11/2015

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Happy moment: Team "I'm a Hero" received their Winner's Flag from the very impressed adjudicator.
Simply proud of our boys! We repeated our sparkling results last year in the Thematic Group Speaking category at the 67th Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival as our two talented teams of boys won the First (scored 88) and Third Places (scored 85) at the Festival today (11 Dec). This category is particularly challenging to perform well as participants are expected to perform a 15-min speech and drama act with a balanced choice of text types following the theme of the coach's choice.

Team "I'm a Hero" was heavily praised in terms of their ability to manage a complex act, their strong concentration in acting, and the professional stance of particularly the extra performers at the background. Team "Emotions" was also appreciated for their bold central concept of exploring the relationship between students and teacher in the most entertaining manner.

This is our second consecutive year joining Thematic Group Speaking in the Speech Festival and for both years we received the top and third spots. We sincerely thank our drama team members in participating in all of our rehearsals amidst their very tight schedules. This is not only a game for our boys, it is also an interestingly difficult literary task for the coaches as they have to put together a sensible thematic programme for each group and train them to perform at such a high level.

Once again, I am very glad to have witnessed all these magical moments and be able to see the growth of our children in terms of language arts.

Though the Speech Festival is coming to an end, I feel that our tradition of having thematic groups in speaking is just a beginning, and we cannot ask for a better one.

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Dr H C Lee
Panel Chair

11 Comments
Claire Leung
12/12/2015 12:39:53 am

Congratulations to Ying Wa! I am so proud of you all! It is wonderful to see the boys achieve so brilliantly! Dr Lee and Mrs Ho, you both are excellent speech arts and language arts teachers! Simply bravo!! Thumbs up!

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Dr H C Lee
12/12/2015 11:19:05 am

Thank you Claire to spend time reading our news from Chicago! YWPS misses you much!

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Tom Kwok
12/13/2015 03:33:14 pm

It was the first time joining the thematic group, and the second time joining an English group for a competition.
Although I had to memorize all the lines, it was worth it as I had a fun time practicing with all the team members.
I was unfortunately sick a week before the competition, and everyone was worried. Luckily I recovered just in time.
I enjoyed the competition very much, as I had a chance to know other school team’s standard. Thank Dr. Lee and Mr. Ching for your coaching I learnt a lot.

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Dr H C Lee
12/13/2015 05:06:05 pm

Thanks Tom for taking part and performing at such an incredible level. Your professionalism set a great example to every one in the team! Proud of you!

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Johnny Chou
12/13/2015 09:43:18 pm

Well, our performance is brilliant. All the actors are emotional and we
enjoy the show very much. I have learned many special techniques from the thematic training. Although I met many difficulties during memorizing the lines, I still made it. I have a good experience to learn from others through the competition. Thanks for Dr. Lee and Mr. Ching's teaching a lot.

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Dr H C Lee
12/13/2015 11:24:46 pm

Thanks Johnny for performing so well as the teacher in this act! Your humorous body language amused us all!

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Jonathan Lam
12/14/2015 05:53:09 pm

It is great!

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Mrs Ho
12/15/2015 05:33:18 pm

We learn when we enjoy. We enjoy when we do it by heart.

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Spencer Cheung
12/19/2015 03:23:42 pm

Dear Boys of Speech Competition Team
You are definitely from good to great and ⋯ HERO
My hearty congratulations to you all and Dr Lee and Mrs Ho and last but not lest your principal Mrs Lam
Learning last forever with fun!

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Richard Woods
1/28/2016 08:01:14 am

Well done to all of you. "A student is not above his teacher, but those instructed well can become like their teacher "(Jesus' words, not mine :) ) .You all did well because you had great teachers who worked with passion. Coming first is becoming a habit!!!

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Matthew Chan
4/9/2016 05:43:03 pm

I am so honoured to take place in this wonderful thematic group competition. I'm so delighted that we got first place! It was a wonderful moment. Congratulations to the drama team students and keep it up!!!!

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