Halkirk Young Farmers Reach For The Stars

10 Nov Halkirk Young Farmers Reach For The Stars

Halkirk Young Farmers Reach for the Stars

On Saturday 7^th November the North Region held its annual Junior Speechmaking regional eliminations in Papdale Primary School, Kirkwall. Six speechmaking teams competed on the day, covering a wide range topics, who were judged by Isobel Grieve, Thelma Bruce and Keith Moar assisted by Question Masters for the day, Barbara Sinclair and Willie Kirkness.

The winning team was Halkirk Pink, Chair, Cameron Gunn, Opposer, Caitlin McGuire and Proposer Andrew Sinclair who discussed the topic ‘We should reach for the stars’ scoring 83 out of a possible 100.

Second place went to Harray Blue with 82 points, team members were, Chair, Rebecca Seator, Opposer, Dana Sutherland and Proposer, Alaina Wishart with speech titled ‘Banned from the Stands’. Alaina was also awarded the joint prize for best Proposer outwith the winning team.

In third place were the Harray Green team comprising of Lucy Reid in the Chair, Ada Tait as Opposer and Vaila McIntosh as Proposer with their speech titled ‘Home – The Smart Choice’ giving them a score of 80 points. Vaila also won the joint prize for best Proposer outwith the winning team.

Other individual prizes went to Rebecca Seator winning best Chair outwith the winning team, and joint best Opposers outwith the winning team went to Abby Miller of Halkirk B and Iona Campbell of Bower.

Other speechmaking teams taking part were Bower, Halkirk B and Halkirk C.  The Judges commented that the standard of competition was exceptionally high and that all competitors deserved to be taking part on the day. The top three speechmaking teams will go forward to the National Finals in Edinburgh on the 5^th December.

North Chair William Campbell commented “it was great to see so many juniors taking part in the speechmaking competition at such a high standard and wish the winning teams well for going on to represent the North Region at the National finals”