At Ficino School, we place a strong emphasis on the importance of clear communication. Each year students participate in a school-wide speech competion, for which they are required to prepare a recitation of the work of great writers, political figures, thinkers and philosophers. They are supported in this by their class teachers as well as Drama specialists Ms Doctor and Mr Hudson.
This year, as always, the standard was extremely high and the judges, Anita Hudson and former Deputy Principal Paula Hudson, had a tough task in selecting the winners. Well done to everyone who worked hard on their orations and congratulations to the winners.
Year 1 – The Perfect Prayer
Congratulations, all learnt by heart, upright and confident, spoke as a chorus, no-one leading and all participated.
| Position | Name | Piece |
| JUNIOR | ||
| Year 2 | ||
| 1st | Sophia Giles | Life Is, by Mother Teresa |
| 2nd | Yongqi Huang | Chandogya Upanishad |
| 3rd | Lucas Qian | Life Is, by Mother Teresa |
| Year 3 | ||
| 1st | Lexi Blair | “Hope” is the Thing with Feathers, by Emily Dickinson |
| 2nd | Julian Lory | Under the Mountain Dark and Tall, by JRR Tolkien |
| 3rd | Sid Patel-Dass | Under the Mountain Dark and Tall, by JRR Tolkien |
| Year 4 | ||
| 1st | Isabella Mee | Said a Blade of Grass, by Kahlil Gibran |
| 2nd | Skylar Zhao
Isabella Tan |
Twikham Tweer, by Jack Prelutsky
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad |
| 3rd | Marvin Campbell | The Art of Happiness, by the Dalai Lama |
| SENIOR | ||
| Year 5 | ||
| 1st | Florence Qian | From a Railway Carriage, by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 2nd | Anthony Huang | The Tummy Beast, by Roald Dahl |
| 3rd | Sona Kim | The Guest House, by Rumi |
| Year 6 | ||
| 1st | Lucas Quangzhang | Macavity the Mysterious Cat, by T S Eliot |
| 2nd | Kiaan Patel | The Dragon Awakes – Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney |
| 3rd | Saisha Ghosh | All the World’s a Stage, by William Shakespeare |
| Year 7 | ||
| 1st | Anson Roberts | Henry V – Harfleur, by Shakespeare |
| 2nd | Archie Mischefski | The Charge of the Light Brigade, by Lord Alfred Tennyson |
| 3rd | Miranda Huang | Titania – A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare |
| Year 8 | ||
| 1st | Hugo Kim | Gloucester, Richard III Act I:I, by William Shakespeare |
| 2nd | Warren Liu | I have a Dream, by Martin Luther King |
| 3rd | Karina Chen | The Source, by Rumi |
