As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: “Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.”
The award-winning St. Anne Speech Team is open to all 6th, 7th and 8th grade students who want to improve their public speaking skills through participation in at least two middle school speech tournaments during December through February where they compete by delivering two speeches, three times each day. Across a number of speech categories, students gain experience organizing their thoughts and delivering speeches with energy, emotion, expression, gestures, proper pace and timing, and more. It’s a positive, team-based experience that they will take with them their whole lives. Practices start in mid-October and are held in the evening, one time per week at St. Anne school. The season commences at the end of February. Tournaments take place at Blanchet, Seattle Prep, and other high schools.
