public speaking Archives - Cokethorpe School

Look Who’s Talking Their Way to Public Speaking Final

by tl | Mar 4, 2025 | Academic, Wider Community

Cokethorpe Prep School was thrilled to host the final of the Corinthian Partnership ‘Look Who’s Talking’ Competition. Pupils from Year 1 to Year 6 wowed the audience with two-minute talks on topics ranging from rugby to polar bears, Harry Potter to a...

Powerful Performance at Public Speaking

by tl | Mar 22, 2024 | Academic

The Cokethorpe Public Speaking Team put in a performance to be proud of at the English Speaking Union’s regional final. The team, comprising Evie (Fourth Form, Swift), Eylül (Third Form, Swift), and Sofia (Third Form, Feilden), competed against six highly...

Second Form Present Independent Research

by tl | Jun 22, 2023 | Academic

Congratulations to our Second Form pupils who confidently presented their Independent Research Projects to their teachers and peers. They have been working on these for the past year and, back in September, each pupil came up with a topic of interest and posed a...

Model Students Show United Front

by lmw | Jan 6, 2023 | Academic, Wider Community

This year, the Sixth Form revived the Cokethorpe Model United Nations Team, which had been in abeyance since before the pandemic. Students, Joe (Upper Sixth, Queen Anne), Rachael (Lower Sixth, Feilden), Iman (Upper Sixth, Queen Anne), Charlotte (Lower Sixth,...

Talking Themselves into the Second Round

by tl | Dec 6, 2022 | Academic

On Monday 5th December the Cokethorpe Public Speaking AOB entered two Teams into the first round of the ESU Public Speaking competition. Emily (Fifth Form, Gascoigne) began proceedings for Team A with a speech exploring a feminist take on the title “We Lack...