Year 8 Public Speaking Competition
On Wednesday 19th June, 13 plucky Year 8 students pitted their wits against each other in the Year 8 Public Speaking Competition organised by the English Department. Each student was tasked with the opportunity to display their verbal dexterity on a topic of their choice.
In front of their peers, parents and three judges, the students spoke eloquently, informatively and confidently about a broad range of topics ranging from the entirely fictional existence of dinosaur worms, the art of procrastination and the perils of VAR.
It was an excellent display of what Churchill Academy students can achieve and a thoroughly enjoyable event.
Well done to all the students who took part and congratulations to the winners:
Overall winner: Eleanor Worley - read the winning speech here
Climate Change Is Great!
By Eleanor Worley
Year 8 Public Speaking Competition 19/06/2024
Hello! My name is Eleanor and I have written a speech
about why climate change is great. Isn’t it? We all love
warm weather, right? As shown by 26% of people in the
UK going to Spain every year especially in the winter
when it is an average of 9 degrees warmer in Spain than
here when it rains even in June. Global Warming is
making the planet warmer and by the year 2100 the
temperature is estimated to have risen by 5 degrees
Celsius. This could improve our economy because people
in unbearably hot countries can travel to the UK for a
more comfortable summer in the not too hot Sun. But
what does this mean for other countries.
In the coldest parts of the Earth, such as Antarctica,
there are large ice burgs which are the home to seals,
walruses, polar bears and penguins which are the 12 th
most loved animal and chocolate snack in the world, but
the year 2100 half of the worlds ice burgs will have
melted along with the loved animals that will then be
extinct. But that’s not the only problem because the
melted ice will have nowhere to go and flood the Earth
where Belgium, 30% of Germany and halve of the
Netherlands will disappear by 2100.
The year 2100 may be 76 years away and won’t apply to
most people in this room but it will apply to your
grandchildren and even your current children, for
example, I would be 89 and positively thriving, unless I
lived in Belgium that is.
So, what is causing climate change to happen? We are!
Humans – the most populous mammal on the planet-
only recently, November 2022, the 8 billionth baby was
born in a world where we pollute the planet with fast
cars and planes allowing us to travel to Spain- pumping
large amounts of Co2 into the atmosphere. Although, for
some of us these aren’t simple choices about luxuries
whether that is to heat your home or drive to work.
However, all the burning fossil fuels you would think that
nobody cared for the loved animals.
So, let me conclude, climate change and preventing
global warming is a huge challenge of balancing,
competing needs and priorities. I think most of us would
welcome a bit more sunshine in the UK but what I’ve
learnt is that climate change isn’t just about it getting
warmer, it’s about terrible extremes of weather that are
so damaging to so many different communities. So
maybe climate change isn’t so great, and I should
probably change the title of my speech.
Thank you for listening.