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April 1, 2022/in Whole School/by Keris McCormick

Toastmasters was a six week project that helped me to improve my speaking skills. Every week, the group would write and present their speeches. If you were not partaking in this then you would be given a role. There were many roles to take if you did not want to say your speech like:

  • Timer – keep the people in time by using the traffic light system
  • Grammarian – comes up with a word for the whole session and see if people use it
  • Ah counter – counts the amount of filler words used
  • Quote master – finds a quote for people to use
  • Evaluator – go over other people’s speeches and give 2 goods and one improvements
  • Prime minister/toastmaster – leads the session for 3 weeks and introduce and finish each speech

I learnt a lot from the session. I learnt how to keep the speaker engaged by not using too many points and using the power of three. I also learnt how to manage my use of space and not move too much so that it was not so distracting. I have taken away the power of 3, only using 3 points, and using space properly. 

I think that this is a good thing for people to do in future to not only improve their speaking skills but their general oracy skills. It is a good skill to use in the future for things like interviews. Even If you believe you are already good enough there’s still room to improve as you get custom feedback from the Toastmasters leaders. It is also nice to speak to people you know so you feel safe to talk to them and you feel comfortable and safer when you speak in front of others. 

I would recommend Toastmasters to others!

Tendai M

The Toastmasters Programme was to help develop our speaking skills which it succeeded in. It was very fun and I learnt a lot. I took away how to properly develop and project my thoughts and speeches. I would recommend it to other students as it is genuinely a very fun experience, with all the different roles and activities you can do as well as improving your speaking and listening skills. Public speaking is one of the biggest fears in the world. I personally feel much more confident in my line delivery when I’m speaking to a crowd. I loved every second of it.
Jacob T

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