From Wednesday 23rd October to Friday 25th of October Burnside ran its annual Junior Speech Competition. All of Year 9 and Year 10 were engaged, persuaded and entertained by fantastic speakers from each form class. The topics covered things like; the black death, skinny jeans, individuality, why it’s good to shower, artificial intelligence, perfectionism, failure, social media influences, happiness and a wide variety of other topics.

Year 10 students also gained Mitchel Cup points for their efforts. Well done to all our skilled public speakers.

The overall winners for Year 10 were:

Overall 1st - Madeline Head 10WWIC

Overall 2nd - Lily Burt 10WWIC

Overall 3rd = Angel Molines 10SYMS

Overall 3rd = Sandith Welengoda - Hewage 10SMYS

The divisional winners for Year 9 were:

Year 9 West

1st Elle Ilkiw 9WSME

2nd Tayla Johnson, 9WWTA

3rd Molly Brown, 9WRIC

Year 9 South

1st Ameya Raut

2nd Jess French

3rd Sophie Sugrue

Year 9 North

1st Dilkee Nanayakkara

2nd Kobe Clark

3rd Max Wallace