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Speaking competitions

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Speaking competitions

Art Bites

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MyPL:
Virtual Excursion:

Art Bites invite students to join a choir rehearsal, dance ensemble, music practice, art club or a debating team meeting.

These short video lessons in a range of areas offer students a chance to engage in co-curricular activities.

This series can be accessed via the Arts Unit Learning Hub. (remember to allow flash on your web browser for this series).
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Coaching primary debating

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MyPL:
Virtual Excursion:

This website is a resource for teachers who are coaching or facilitating debating in a NSW primary school setting.

This resource is divided into three sections:

  • Learn about debating
  • Coordinating debating in your school
  • Coaching primary debating
This series can be accessed via the Arts Unit Learning Hub. (remember to allow flash on your web browser for this series).
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Creative Classes

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MyPL:
Virtual Excursion:

Creative Classes uses our extensive collection of inspiring, and unique video assets that have been adapted into mini websites for teachers to share with their students.

Each website offers high quality stimulus content and provides engaging, independent activities that have been linked to syllabus outcomes in creative arts subjects.

This series can be accessed via the Arts Unit Learning Hub. (remember to allow flash on your web browser for this series).
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Developing confident speakers​

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MyPL:
Virtual Excursion:

In this eModule, you will learn strategies to develop your students' voice, body language and persuasive verbal techniques so they may become more confident members of your debating team.​

This series can be accessed via the Arts Unit Learning Hub. (remember to allow flash on your web browser for this series).
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Entering a speaking competition​

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MyPL:
Virtual Excursion:

This eModule will teach you how a speaking competition is run and how you may seek your Principal's approval to enter your team into a speaking competition.​

This series can be accessed via the Arts Unit Learning Hub. (remember to allow flash on your web browser for this series).
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Examining prepared and impromptu speeches

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MyPL:
Virtual Excursion:

These eClips show four of the finalists in the Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking competition delivering both a prepared speech on a set topic chosen from a list that must have multicultural content and an impromptu speech on a topic chosen by the adjudicator on the day.​

This series can be accessed via the Arts Unit Learning Hub. (remember to allow flash on your web browser for this series).
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Hints and guidelines for public speaking competitions

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MyPL:
Virtual Excursion:

Public speaking tips presented in a straightforward animation.

This series can be accessed via the Arts Unit Learning Hub. (remember to allow flash on your web browser for this series).
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How to set up a spelling bee

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Andrew Lasaitis
MyPL:
Virtual Excursion:

Speaking competitions officer from The Arts Unit, Andrew Lasaitis demonstrates best practice for school based teachers when setting up a spelling bee. This information is crucial to ensure that events run smoothly for the NSW Premier's Spelling Bee. It is also transferable to class based spelling bees and whole school based spelling bees.

This series can be accessed via the Arts Unit Learning Hub. (remember to allow flash on your web browser for this series).
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NSW Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking Competition

Years 3 and 4 state final

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MyPL:
Virtual Excursion:

The Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking Competition has been encouraging primary school students to explore ideas of multiculturalism in Australia, as well as giving them a place to practice their public speaking skills and improve their confidence.

This series can be accessed via the Arts Unit Learning Hub. (remember to allow flash on your web browser for this series).
View eResource

NSW Premier's Debating Challenge

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MyPL:
Virtual Excursion:

The Premier’s Debating Challenge is open to government schools throughout NSW, with age divisions for teams from Year 5 all the way up to Year 12. Teams entering the challenge compete in a round-robin series of debates against nearby schools, with the winners going on to compete at regional and state level to determine the eventual state champion.

This series can be accessed via the Arts Unit Learning Hub. (remember to allow flash on your web browser for this series).
View eResource

NSW Premier's Spelling Bee

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MyPL:
Virtual Excursion:

The Premier’s Spelling Bee was introduced in 2004 as a fun and educational way for NSW Public School Primary students to engage in spelling. The program includes activities to encourage all students to improve their vocabulary and spelling and to promote literacy skills in combination with the English K-6 Syllabus.

This series can be accessed via the Arts Unit Learning Hub. (remember to allow flash on your web browser for this series).
View eResource

Speaker roles in the debating team​

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MyPL:
Virtual Excursion:

This eModule will show you how to identify and explain the different speaker roles of the affirmative and negative teams.​

This series can be accessed via the Arts Unit Learning Hub. (remember to allow flash on your web browser for this series).
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The 2020 State Final of the Virtual Plain English Speaking Award

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MyPL:
Virtual Excursion:

The Plain English Speaking Award has been providing a platform for senior students to speak up about the issues important to them since 1978. Speakers deliver a prepared speech of 8 minutes as well as a 3 minute impromptu. In 2020 the competition went virtual with speakers delivering their ideas over zoom from all over the state.

This series can be accessed via the Arts Unit Learning Hub. (remember to allow flash on your web browser for this series).
View the competition

Virtual excursions

COVID-19 announcement

Various activities for The Arts Unit programs have been temporarily suspended for the foreseeable future to support efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19 and maintain the safety and wellbeing of students and staff.

Visit the COVID-19 and public schools in NSW web page for more information.

Speaking competitions

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