Welcome to 2020 Gunnedah Speech & Drama Eisteddfod

Speech & Drama Syllabus is attached along with all set pieces.

Hopefully we will have another successful year with

lots of entries and school support.

Two workshops have been organised for Speech & Drama this year with a very talented Speech & Drama

Teacher and Adjudicator, Robyn Christmas. These workshops will be concentrating on:

Mime

Story Telling Improvisation

Venues and times are yet to be confirmed, however workshops will be:

Friday 20 March 2020 Friday 3 April 2020

Speech, Drama and Public Speaking Eisteddfod

Monday 1st to Thursday 4th June 2020

Convenor Jenny Darley

Mail: 146 Merrigle Lane Boggabri 2382 jendarley27@gmail.com

0417265765 or

Gunnedah Fashion Fabrics, 177 Conadilly Street, Gunnedah, or

Second Edition Bookshop, 276 Conadilly Street, Gunnedah

Entries Close: On line: 12th April Postal: 9th April

Entry Fees: Individual Entries $ 5

Poems for Two $ 10 Groups (Choral Speech & Plays) $ 20

Venues: Town Hall Gunnedah

Civic Theatre Gunnedah

RULES AND GENERAL CONDITIONS OF ENTRY - SPEECH & DRAMA (Please read carefully to avoid misunderstandings)

1. Entries must be on the official Speech and Drama entry form and must be lodged by the specified closing date, 9/4/20

2. Entries must be in a sealed envelope clearly marked SPEECH AND DRAMA and must include the appropriate entry fee. Entries may be posted to:-

Mrs Jenny Darley, 146 Merrigle Lane, Boggabri 2382 Gunnedah Fashion Fabrics, 177 Conadilly Street, Gunnedah, or Second Edition Bookshop, 276 Conadilly Street, Gunnedah

3. Please make all postal notes payable at Gunnedah and draw all cheques payable to Gunnedah Eisteddfod Society (Inc).

4. Late entries will not be accepted. No extension of time will be granted. No phone or faxed entries will be accepted.

5. Copies of own choice pieces (including plays) must be received with entries or by the commencement of the session in

which they are to be performed.

6. All entrants perform entirely at their own risk.

7. The entrant's age is recognized as their age on the first day of May each year. Entrants in sections limited to age must be prepared to submit Proof of Age if required to do so.

8. Open sections in Speech and Drama are open to entrants 16 years of age and over.

9. The committee reserves the right to cancel any sections in which it is considered insufficient entries have been received. Entrants will receive notice of cancellation.

10. In all sections where fewer than three (3) entries are received the award of first or any prize will be left to the discretion of

the adjudicator.

11. Unless otherwise stated, only one item may be performed in each section by an entrant.

12. An entrant must not repeat any item with which he or she has won first place in any previous Gunnedah Eisteddfod unless it is a "Set Piece".

13. No contestant may say a poem as "Own Choice" if it is a "Set Piece" in the current Eisteddfod.

14. No entrant will be allowed to perform the same item in more than one section.

15. No deferment of adjudication to a later session will be permitted. Deferment within a session will be at the discretion of the

adjudicator.

16. The committee reserves the right to amend the program at any time by varying the order of entrants and/or sections at any sessions.

17. The committee reserves the right to appoint a substitute adjudicator.

18. An adjudicator's decision is final.

19. Any protest or objection arising shall be lodged with the relevant convener in writing within thirty minutes of the cause of

complaint and must be accompanied by a deposit of $10. If the request is upheld the deposit will be refunded.

20. Award sheets will be available fifteen (15) minutes after the conclusion of the adjudication and are the responsibility of the entrant.

21. Conveners reserve the right to ban video cameras as this is a breach of copyright laws

22. All general enquiries should be addressed to:

The Secretary,

Gunnedah Eisteddfod Society (Inc), PO Box 372,

Gunnedah NSW 2380 0428 434 140

Preschool and Infants Section

INDIVIDUAL SECTIONS ENTRY FEE: $5.00 Note: All sections are ‘Own Choice’ unless otherwise indicated PF 1 Nursery Rhyme (Preschool in Costume) Time limit: 2 minutes PF 2 Nursery Rhyme (Kindergarten in Costume) Time limit: 2 minutes PF 3 Humorous Poem (Kindergarten) Time limit: 2 minutes PF 4 Humorous Poem (Yr 1 & Yr 2) Time limit: 2 minutes PF 5 Australian Poem (Infants) Time limit: 2 minutes PF 6 Poems for Two (Infants) - Costume optional Time limit: 2 minutes Entry Fee: $10.00 PF 7 Prepared Reading (Years 1 & 2) ‘The Twits’ By Roald Dahl PF 8 Describe a picture Time Limit 1 minute Some helpful hints for children competing in this section: Children choose their own picture, Children display picture, it may be from a book, a photo or from a magazine etc Children talk about this picture not just telling people what is in the picture but: Why they chose this picture? What does this picture mean to them? How does the picture make them feel?

YEARS 3 and 4 Section INDIVIDUAL SECTIONS: ENTRY FEE: $5.00 for single entries $10 Poems for Two Note: All sections are ‘Own Choice’ unless otherwise indicated All poems have a time limit of 2 minutes and poems for two and duologues 3 minutes JP 1 Australian Poem (Yrs 3/4) JP 2 Humorous Poem (Yr 3) JP 3 Humorous Poem (Yr 4) JP 4 Poem for Two (Yrs 3/4) - in costume JP 15 Duologues (Yrs 3/4) – optional costume JP 5 Mime (Years3/4) JP6 Monologue (Years 3/4) JP 7 Bible Reading (Years 3/4) Psalm 23 JP 8 Prose Reading (Year 3/4) Individual & no costume required JP 9 Impromptu Reading (Yr 3) JP 10 Impromptu Reading (Yr 4) JP 11 Restricted Recitation (Yr 3) For children who have never won 1st Place. ‘Missing’ by Anne Scott JP12 Restricted Recitation (Yr 4) For children who have never won 1st Place. ‘Freddie by Phil Bolsta JP13 Indigenous Story telling (Year 3 & 4) JP 14 Championship Poem (Yrs 3/4) To qualify for the championship poem, competitors need to have competed in 2 other individual sections of this Eisteddfod. ‘The Poet by Annette Kosseris Time Limits: Prepared Speech 2 minutes, Impromptu Speech 1 minute PS 1 Prepared Speech (Year 3) PS 2 Impromptu Speech (Year 3) PS 3 Prepared Speech (Year 4) PS 4 Impromptu Speech (Year 4)

YEARS 5 and 6

INDIVIDUAL SECTIONS: ENTRY FEE: $5.00 for single entries $10 Poems for Two Note: All sections are ‘Own Choice’ unless otherwise indicated All poems have a time limit of 3 minutes and poems for two and Duologues 4 minutes SP 1 Australian Poem (Yr 5/6) SP 2 Humorous Poem (Yr 5) SP 3 Humorous Poem (Yr 6) SP 4 Mime (Years5/6) SP 5 Monologue (Years 5/6) SP 6 Prose Reading Year 5 & 6 SP 7 Bible Reading (Yrs5/6) 1 Timothy 4:11-16 New International; Version (NIV) SP 8 Impromptu Reading (Yr 5) SP 9 Impromptu Reading (Yr 6) SP 10 Restricted Recitation (Yr 5) For children who have never won 1st Place ‘Look Out’ by Max Fatchen SP 11 Restricted Recitation (Yr 6) For children who have never won 1st Place ‘Day Dreams’ by Katherine Blowen SP 12 Indigenous Story Telling Years 5 & 6 SP13 Championship Poem (Yrs 5/6) To qualify for the championship poem, competitors need to have competed in 2 other individual sections of this Eisteddfod. ‘Contrast’ by Joyce Trickett SP 14 Poem for Two (Yrs 5/6) - in costume SP 16 Duologues (Yrs 5/6) – optional costume SP 15 Improvised Drama (Yrs 5/6) - Groups of 3 to 5 Based on a visual or word picture given by the adjudicator. Time Limits: Prepared Speech 3 minutes, Impromptu Speech 1 minute PS 5 Prepared Speech (Year 5) (Time Limits: Prepared Speech 3 minutes, Impromptu Speech 1 minute) PS 6 Impromptu Speech (Year 5) PS 7 Prepared Speech (Year 6) PS 8 Impromptu Speech (Year 6)

High School Section: INDIVIDUAL SECTIONS - YEARS 7,8 and 9 ENTRY FEE: $5.00 for Single Entries Only Note: All sections are ‘Own Choice’ unless otherwise indicated

JH 1 Monologue (Yrs 7/8/9)

JH 2 Group Improvised Drama (Yrs 7/8/9) ENTRY FEE: $10.00 Time limit: 2 minutes Groups of 3 to 5 Based on a visual or word picture given by the adjudicator JH 3 Duologues (Yrs 7/8/9) – optional costume

SH 2 Group Improvised Drama (Yrs 10/11/12) ENTRY FEE $10.00 Time limit: 3 minutes Groups of 3 to 5 Based on a visual or word picture given by the adjudicator.

Year 12 Drama Performances (no prizes)

PUBLIC SPEAKING – HIGH SCHOOL

Speak – Off Competition between High Schools ENTRY FEE: $50.00 Years 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12 Two representatives in each Year level Individuals receive marks but are compiled together. The school with the highest overall mark is the ‘SPEAK OFF’ Champion School.

SCHOOL SECTIONS

DRAMA ENTRY FEE: $20.00

Care should be taken with the quality of choice. The conveners reserve the right to reject choice of play if it is considered unsuitable.

When submitting drama entries teachers must supply the following information: a) Performance time (time limits must be strictly observed). b) Copy of the script with a cast list and name of actor playing each part, attached.

If insufficient entries are received in any one section the conveners reserve the right to combine the section with another or abandon the section. Notification will be given to any entrants affected.

Note: Drama sections will not be split when programmed. Time limits include setting and striking the stage.

DR 1 ONE ACT PLAY - School Years 5 and 6 Time limit: 30 minutes DR 2 Group Mime - School Years 5 and 6 DR 3 ONE ACT PLAY - School Years 3 and 4 Time limit: 30 minutes DR 4 Group Mime - School Years 3 and 4 DR 5 ONE ACT PLAY - Schools with less than 65 pupils Time limit: 30 minutes DR 6 Group Mime - Schools with less than 65 pupils

CHORAL SPEECH ENTRY FEE: $20.00 Choirs are to present two pieces: - a) Set Piece, b) Own Choice (contrasting piece) Teachers must not sing, speak or play with the choirs or groups they are conducting. Failure to observe this rule could result in disqualification. No teacher, except in the capacity of conductor, will be allowed on the stage at any time his or her pupils are performing. CS I CHORAL SPEECH - School Years 5 and 6 (a) ‘Cats by the Fire’ by Joyce Trickett (b) Contrasting Own Choice Poem Time limit: 2 minutes CS 2 CHORAL SPEECH - School Years 3 and 4 (a) ‘Fish n’ Chips’ by David Campbell (b) Contrasting Own Choice Poem Time limit: 2 minutes CS 3 CHORAL SPEECH – School Years 1 and 2 (a) ‘Spring’ by Frank Cardiff (b) Contrasting Own Choice Poem Time limit: 2 minutes CS 4 CHORAL SPEECH- Kindergarten

(a) ‘The Park’ by Annette Kosseris Time Limit 1 Minute (b) Contrasting Own Choice Poem

CS 5 CHORAL SPEECH – School with less than 65 pupils (a) ‘Cities’ by Anonymous (b) Contrasting Own Choice Poem Time limit: 2 minutes

OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM - SPEECH AND DRAMA 2019 GUNNEDAH EISTEDDFOD

Monday 1st June – Thursday 4th June 2020 Late or phone entries will NOT be accepted

Name: (person submitting entries) ………………….…………………….……… Address: ……………………………………………………………………………. ……………………..…………………………………………………………………… Telephone: ……………....……......…… (BH).……….……….………..…… (AH) Email:………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Entries for Speech & Drama this year can also be submitted online darleyfamily@bigpond.com Payment can also be Direct debited to the Eisteddfod Organisation. NAB BSB: 082 628 Account No: 921018416 Please place SD and Surname on the reference when making a payment so we can identify who has paid and what section the payment belongs to. The Gunnedah Eisteddfod Society will not be responsible for the photography of any school student who is performing in the Gunnedah Eisteddfod. This issue should be between the school and their chosen photographer. Any individual performer with photography issues should inform the convenors at the session in which they are performing. I have read and agree to abide by the rules and regulations governing competition in the 2016 Gunnedah Eisteddfod Y/N. Signed (by person submitting entries):__________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT NOTES

1. Entries should be in a sealed envelope marked SPEECH AND DRAMA and must include the FULL ENTRY FEES.

2. For the purpose of ‘age’ sections, the entrant's age is recognized as their age on the first day of May 2018

3. Set Bible Readings are to be read from the Good News Bible only. Copies of the readings are available from Gunnedah Fashion Fabrics or online

4. Copies of Own Choice selections can be provided with your entry, handed in to Second Edition Bookshop or handed in at the Back Table a half an hour before the commencement of each session.

Section

Competitor

Entry Fee

Total

Speech, Drama and Public Speaking Eisteddfod

Monday 1st to Thursday 4th June 2020

Selection of Pieces

PF 7 Prepared Reading (Years 1 & 2) ‘The Twits’ By Roald Dahl The Twits Roald Dahl A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. 'You're plotting something,' Mrs Twit said, keeping her back turned so he wouldn't see that she had taken out her glass eye. 'Whenever you go all quiet like that I know very well you're plotting something.' Mrs Twit was right. Mr Twit was plotting away like mad. He was trying to think up a really nasty trick he could play on his wife that day. 'You'd better be careful,' Mrs Twit said, 'because when I see you starting to plot, I watch you like a wombat.'

YEARS 3 and 4 Section

JP 7 Bible Reading (Years 3/4) Psalm 23

Psalm 23

New International Version (NIV)

Psalm 23

A psalm of David. 1 The LORD is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

2 He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters,

3 he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths

for his name’s sake. 4 Even though I walk

through the darkest valley,[a] I will fear no evil,

for you are with me; your rod and your staff,

they comfort me. 5 You prepare a table before me

in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil;

my cup overflows. 6 Surely your goodness and love will follow me

all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD

forever.

JP 11 Restricted Recitation (Yr 3) ‘Missing’ by Anne Scott

Missing

By Anne Scott

I've hunted near, I've hunted far

I even looked inside my car.

I've lost my glasses, I'm in need,

To have them now so I can read.

I loudly swear and I curse

Did I leave them in my purse?

Are they behind the sofa, under the bed?

Oh there they are - on my head!

JP12 Restricted Recitation (Yr 4)

‘Freddie’ By Phil Bolsta

Freddie

BY PHIL BOLSTA

I don’t like doing homework, I know that it will bore me. But now I am much happier

’Cause Freddie does it for me!

He greets me at the door each day When I come home from school.

He just can’t wait to read my books— I think that’s pretty cool!

I give him all my homework,

Like history and math. And when he’s done I give him

A nice warm bubble bath!

My grades are so much better now, Which makes my parents glad.

Freddie is the smartest dog That I have ever had!

JP 14 Championship Poem (Yrs 3/4)

To qualify for the championship poem, competitors need to have competed in 2 other individual sections of this Eisteddfod.

‘The Poet’ by Annette Kosseris

YEARS 5 and 6 SP 7 Bible Reading (Yrs5/6) 1 Timothy 4:11-16 New International Version (NIV) 1 Timothy 4:11-16 New International Version (NIV) 11 Command and teach these things. 12 Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. 13 Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching. 14 Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through prophecy when the body of elders laid their hands on you. 15 Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress. 16 Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.

SP 10 Restricted Recitation (Yr 5) ‘Look Out’ Max Fatchen

SP 11 Restricted Recitation (Yr 6) ‘Day Dreams’ Katherine Blowen

SP13 Championship Poem (Yrs 5/6) To qualify for the championship poem, competitors need to have competed in 2 other individual sections of this Eisteddfod. ‘Contrast’ by Joyce Trickett

CHORAL SPEECH CS I CHORAL SPEECH - School Years 5 and 6 (a) ‘Cat by the Fire’ Joyce Trickett (b) Contrasting Own Choice Poem Time limit: 2 minutes

CS 2 CHORAL SPEECH - School Years 3 and 4 (a) ‘Fish n’ Chips’ by David Campbell (b) Contrasting Own Choice Poem Time limit: 2 minutes

CS 3 CHORAL SPEECH – School Years 1 and 2 (a) ‘Spring’ by Frank Cardiff (b) Contrasting Own Choice Poem Time limit: 2 minutes

CS 4 CHORAL SPEECH- Kindergarten

(a) ‘The Park’ By Annette Kosseris Time Limit 1 Minute (b) Contrasting Own Choice Poem

CS 5 CHORAL SPEECH – School with less than 65 pupils (a) CITIES by Anonymous (b) Contrasting Own Choice Poem Time limit: 2 minutes