public speaking Archives - Cokethorpe School

Cokethorpe Triumphs at Public Speaking Competition

by tl | Mar 4, 2026 | Academic

What an extraordinary evening for Cokethorpe School at the Kitebrook Humanities Public Speaking Competition! In our very first year attending, Cokethorpe rose to the challenge, facing stiff competition from Kitebrook, St Hugh’s, The Croft and Cothill. The standard...

Debating and Public Speaking Thrive at Cokethorpe

by tl | Feb 12, 2026 | Academic

The History Department is delighted to award an Optimum Award to Alex (Lower Sixth, Queen Anne) for his outstanding speech prepared for the Historical Association Great Debate. Going well beyond the taught curriculum, Alex explored the importance of personal and...

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...