The event has been running for some years and last autumn we ran a similar event for French Speaking, here in the UK.
We went across on the Friday and the event started at 6pm with a briefing for our judge, Anne Richardson. The main event commenced at 7pm and 12 teenagers spoke for 5 minutes each on a topic which they were assigned by lottery. They had seen all 30 topics before, but were not assigned the topic until half an hour before the start. At the end of their talk they were each posed a question by one of the jury members. This was a new innovation which was added following its inception in the UK French speaking competition.
In general the quality was excellent, but no better than the French Speakers in the French speaking competition in the autumn. The field was divided into anglophones and non-anglophones with tougher marking for those whose family background gave them an advantage.
Following the event we all went to a new restaurant opposite the town hall for a meal with the Chantilly Rotarians.
The following day two Chantilly Rotarians, Jean-Jaques and Gerard, took us to Senlis and showed us round the medieval town. It was a great morning out, followed by a delicious savoury pancake lunch in the town.
All in all we had a great weekend and many thanks to the Chantilly Rotarians for providing such good company and attentiveness.
Clive Richardson
more French Speaking Competition held at Rosebery School
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more Steve was inducted by Andy Ballard, our President, at lunch on 19th November. He brings new and different expertise to our team and we are delighted he has joined us.
more The Junior and Intermediate classes of the 2015 schools French public speaking competitions, organised jointly with the Epsom and Ewell Town twinning Association, took place at Rosebery School on Tuesday 20th October.
more Rotary President Andy Ballard helping out with the Poppy appeal 2015
more Around 100 people celebrated the 90th anniversary of the foundation of the Epsom Rotary Club
more Held at the United Reformed Church Hall
more Epsom and Ewell Rotary Clubs have a great success with the 2015 Fun Day
more Voluntary Action Mid Surrey give Volunteers Award to Tony Axelrod and Duncan Cox
more Held in Reading and with 10 contestants. The competition was fierce and the afternoon was a fantastic performance by all contestants
more Ruthie updates the team on what has been happening in Blantyre and surroundings
more Andy presents Mike Gibbs with his trophy for winning the Bowling tournament
more Great evening hearing about the Royal Yacht Brittania
more Andy and Barb have been putting up the Banners
more Ruthie Markus returns to Africa shortly to oversea projects which are running there.
more Dave Ayres visits the Rotary Club of Bolton in Canada
more Delft Koningveld arranged for Epsom Choral Society to give a concert in their local Church. The concert was well attended and raised around 1000 Euros for the church
more Race for life on Epsom Downs. Rotary man the finish lines. 3000 people run
more Excellent Sunday afternoon at the Hog Roast with The Canopy and Everest Spice Restaurants
more A team of 5 refurbish St Ebba's Sheltered Garden
more 8 Associate Members were inducted (photo only shows 7 as Helena had to be elsewhere)
more Many Rotarians, Rotaractors and Associate Rotarians with partners invaded the Ashley Centre
more The Junior and Intermediate French Speaking Competion was held at Rosebery School last Tuesday 21st October.
more 3 representatives of Challengers come to lunch
more We had a fascinating talk from Matthew Wing
more The Epsom event of Young Musician was held at Epsom College
more Emma Oulton gains second place in the District Finals
more Click on arrows to move through pictures.................... Ruth Markus is in Malawi working for the AMECA Trust which assists Malawi with medical aid. She sends details of the devastation and its effects.
more The first round winners of the 2015 Youth Speaks Competition.
more Attached is a link to a short video of the Epsom & Ewell Borough Family fun day, Jointly organised by Ewell and Epsom Rotary Clubs and Rotaract and which is now on You Tube. The video was created by Surinder Sarohia
more Tony Axelrod receives his certificate from President Clive Smitheram
more Held at Epsom Council Chamber
more Club Heat of Young Photographer 2015
more Some of our members wearing their bandanas
more District 1140 finals of Young Chef Competition
more We start the new Rotary year with a new President Andy Ballard and Rotaract President Katie Barke