Last 21 February 2015, the Education High School students took part in the annual Speech Cup organized by the University of the Philippines Speech Communication Association (UP SPECA) at the GT-Toyota Asian Center Auditorium.
The Speech Cup is a speech competition where High Schools around the country compete in both oral interpretation and speech choir competition. It aims to foster youth involvement in performance art and rhetoric; to provide a venue for self-expression and social responsiveness and to propel the Filipinization of speech communication. The theme of the 2015 Speech Cup is"Catharsis: Art, Healing, and Responding to Climate Change," where art is used to create a positive social impact and to instill responsibility, to the people, to act on the welfare of our planet threatened by climate change.
25 EHS Students, composing of 4th Year High School students and a Grade 9 student, competed for the Speech Choir Competition. They performed “Sumpa ng Kawayan” by Joi Barrios, which is the required competition piece, and “Baha, Bahala, Bathala”, which is the chosen piece of the school, written by the group’s mentor Mr. Arnold Felipe.
Prior to the competition, they underwent weeks of rigorous training under Mr. Arnold Felipe. Laryna Mallari, a Grade 8 student who was the school’s representative for the Oral Interpretation, was also coached and trained by Mr. Arnold Felipe. EHS didn’t end up with a podium finish but the learning experience brought by the competition is valuable to the participants.
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