ACSI’s Ontario Public Speaking Festival

Thursday, March 1, 2018

Dear Member Schools,

The Public Speaking Festival will take place Thursday, March 1, 2018 at Mississauga Christian School, 2720 Gananoque Drive in Mississauga from 9:45 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. We hope your school can participate.

In order to participate each school must be pre-registered with the ACSI office no later than February 22 and send two adults as judgessuch as supply teachers and retired teachers if possible. Prior to the event your school will receive confirmation of registration and the staff members will be informed as to what job they have been assigned to.

All evaluation forms and criteria are on our website at to students tab, tudent activities and then Public Speaking Festival.

CATEGORIES

Grades 1 – 4 students have a choice of memorizing a poem of their choice or a portion of scripture. These two categories will be judged separately using the attached criteria. A student is allowed to recite a poem he/she has written. However, the judges will only consider how they deliver their recital of the poem - not the relative merits of the poem itself. Each school is allowed to send two students in each grade from 1-4.

Grade 5 – Students will do an Original Speech only as it is their first year to do speeches.Two students may participate from each school.

Grade6 – students may choose between doing an Original Speech or Bible Story. These two categories will be judged separately using the attached criteria. Please note that schools can send a total of threeGr. 6 studentsbut at least one must do the Bible Story category. This is intended to get more participants in the Bible Story category.

Grades 7- 8 students may do an Original Speech or a Visual Aid Speech. These two categories will be judged separately using the criteria enclosed. Schools may send three students from each gradebut at least one from each grade must do the Visual Aid category. Please note: Grade 7 and 8 Visual Aid Speech participants will compete with each other.

Suggestion: It would be a great help if schools sent the list of their students in an excel filerather than filling in the printed version of the registration form. It would limit spellingerrors and be an administrative time saver. Send the excel file to: this format:

Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4

SCHOOL / NAME / GRADE / CATEGORY
Brampton Christian School / Magdalene Jim-Akaya / 1 / Poetry

Please remember to include the names of adults coming to help in your email.

Payment must be mailed in advance or brought to the event. Thank you.

In His Service,

Virginia