The Education Departments of Chartwell, the Churchill War Rooms, and Blenheim Palace Announce 2012 Speaking Competition
The Education Teams of Chartwell, The Churchill War Rooms, and Blenheim Palace are currently working along with representatives from both the English Speaking Union (Oxfordshire) and the Churchill Archives to develop a new project for schools on the art of public speaking.
The speeches of Sir Winston Churchill will be used to teach groups of children how to prepare and deliver a good speech. It is also hoped that the project will increase their knowledge of Sir Winston Churchill’s work and his place in the nation’s history.
Each of the three sites are working with local schools providing visits which concentrate on the life and work of Sir Winston Churchill (WSC) and master classes in the skills required for successful public speaking. Groups from each school will then work on speeches highlighting the importance of WSC in an area of his work. The groups have been given titles and guidelines as a focus for their work. This information can be found by clicking on the links to the left of this page.
Education staff from each property will, if the schools wish them to, go into the schools to help with the preparation of the speeches, in particular concentrating on the presentation of the speech itself. The speeches will be short, between 4 and 5 minutes long.
During the spring term, the children will showcase these speeches at their schools and the Education staff from the properties will hopefully form part of the audience. It is also envisaged that, towards the end of that term, representatives from each school will be given the opportunity to showcase their work at an event at each of the properties in front of an audience of family, teachers and other interested parties. The project will ultimately culminate in a summer event, to be held at Blenheim Palace, where a school from each site will present its work to an invited audience.
Structure
Schools
Preparation
How the Churchill sites can help
Local presentation at Blenheim Palace – Tuesday 13th March
Final summer event – Monday 25th June
1 or 2 teams from each site, (Chartwell, IWM Churchill War Rooms and Blenheim) will attend the final at Blenheim Palace to deliver their speech in front of an invited audience and press. This event will be held in the Marlborough Room at Blenheim Palace.
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