Po Leung Kuk Camões Tan Siu Lin Primary School

Junior English Choral Speaking Team

By 5A Artie Lam Tak Tsun

Our school’s Junior English Choral Speaking Team won the Champion in the

Speech Festival. It’s all because the effort paid by the Team and four teachers,

Ms. Carrie Leung, Ms. Adelaide Hon, Ms. Doris Chan and Ms. Shermie Wu and an

outside coach, Ms. Emma for the three months’ training.

Why did they hire an external instructor?

Ms. Emma is an expert on drama. Our teachers have first met her in a

storytelling workshop in March last year. They thought Ms. Emma could be helpful

for the Poem Team.

Unforgettable moments

The most unforgettable moment of the team was when the judge was announcing

the winners of the competition. The Team didn’t expect that they could win the

Champion so they were very nervous and disappointed when the judge announced the

First and Second Runner-up. When the judge announced the school name ‘Po Leung

Kuk….’. The Team shouted and screamed. Of course, they were overjoyed and felt

proud of it when they got the Champion!

Po Leung Kuk Camões Tan Siu Lin Primary School

Junior English Choral Speaking Team

By 5A Anson Tam Yat Fung

The Junior English Choral Speaking Team participated in the speech festival and

won the champion. They tried their best to practise before the competition. The

teachers in charge of the team are Ms. Carrie Leung, Ms. Adelaide Hon, Ms. Doris

Chan and Ms. Shermie Wu. Everybody paid much effort in this competition.

Why did the school invite an external coach?

Our school also hired Miss. Emma for teaching the students to read poems. The

school invited Ms. Emma to help because the teachers would like to get some new

ideas and insight from her. At the very beginning, our teachers worked closely with

Miss Emma to see how they could present the poem and train the team members.

Everything went smoothly as they contributed in different ways to the success of the

team.

How did the teachers and the team feel before and after they got the champion?

As the team members are very young, they sometimes could not cooperate well.

They were too active and playful. They could not always concentrate. The teachers

needed to remind the members to concentrate and be attentive. The teachers thought

that the members deserved the champion because they had tried their very best in the

competition. It was a great performance. The members felt very happy when they

got the champion. They all want to participate in the competition next year. After all,

they enjoyed the well-earned fruitful result.