Chester Competitive Festival of Performing Arts

Pupils competed in the Chester Competitive Festival of Performing Arts, held at The Kings School on Saturday 23^rd March 2019.

The Chester festival is a speech and drama competition affiliated to the British and International Federation of Festivals for Music, Dance and Speech.  The pupils who entered the festival from King’s had been working hard selecting and preparing verse speaking and prose reading pieces of literature to enter in to the festival.  Not only was this fun for the children, it encouraged and introduced the children to enjoy new literature as well as teaching the children good technique and skills for public speaking.

The children’s hard work paid off with fantastic results.

The results were as follows:

 Harry Moffat (I2N) 1^st – Y2 verse speaking

Grace Sebborn (J1G) 1^st – Yr3 prose reading

Harry McKenna (J1D) 3^rd – Yr3 prose reading

India Skyrme-Walker (J1G) 1^st – prose reading WIRRAL FESTIVAL BHSA School on Saturday 16^th March

Jorja Curwen (J2P) 1^st – Yr4 prose reading

Sadhbh Young (J2T) 2^nd – Yr4 prose reading

George Moffatt (J2F) 3^rd – Yr4 prose reading

Dania Daniels-Peralta (J2T) 2^nd – Yr4 verse speaking

Hattie Bankes (J2P) 3^rd – Yr4 verse speaking

Jorja Curwen (J2P) 3^rd – Yr4 verse speaking

Cassie Knight (J3H) 2^nd – Yr2 verse speaking

Hugh Samuel (J3B) 3^rd – yr 5 prose reading

Cassie Knight (J3H) 3^rd – yr 5 prose reading

Alfred Lloyd (J4S) 1^st – Y6 prose reading

Alfred Lloyd (J4S) 3^rd – prose reading verse speaking

The pupils performed their prepared pieces in front of a large audience, with adjudication at the end of the class.  The classes were large with an average of 30 children in a class.  King’s pupils performances were all excellent; they are all a credit to both the school and themselves.