Bower Park Academy pupil crowned Digital Final Champion at the Speak Out Challenge.
Shaye Temple was crowned Digital Final Champion after speaking out about the challenges of being mixed race and not fitting into society’s construction of either one of those races and is now in line to take the title in Jack Petchey’s “Speak Out” Challenge!
The Bower Park Academy pupil gave a prize-winning talk with a speech titled “Dual Heritage- The Best of Both worlds?”. In her speech, she said: “Telling me that I’m not too black, or not too white… well what am I then? Because sometimes it just doesn’t feel right.”
Watch Shaye’s winning speech here and please use online:
Last week students from across London and Essex came together in a Digital Final and competed to become a “Speak Out” Challenge! Digital Final Champion. Shaye Temple scooped the top prize; £100 gift certificate and the chance to go through to the Grand Final of the competition to be held in London’s West End.
After taking the title, Shaye said “Jack Petchey was a great opportunity for us all to make new friends, and to learn new communication skills.”
Runner-Up title went to Khadijah Uddin, The Frances Bardsley Academy for Girls with her speech “I don’t wear this for you” and Third Place went to Torikubu Issah, Hall Mead School with a speech entitled “Who Are You?”.
The judging panel at the event included community influencers: Curtis Tobbs: Member of the Youth Parliament for Havering, Emma Anderton: Children, Families and Youth Missioner, Diocese of Chelmsford, Uno Angelo: Member of the Youth Parliament for Havering, Ross Elliott, Owner, The Havering Daily, Emily Balham: Drama Tutor, Store Room Youth Theatre, Mandy Meadway: Young People and Parents Project Lead, Havering Mind, Jerusha Clarke: Digital Finalist 2020-21.
This year over 20,000 Year 10 students (14-15 year olds) in over 500 state schools in London and Essex will take part in Jack Petchey’s “Speak Out” Challenge!. Each one of these students receives an all-day public speaking workshop from the UK’s leading public speaking and communication’s charity, Speakers Trust. The programme is funded and supported by the Jack Petchey Foundation. A speech contest is held at the end of the one-day course and each school selects a speaker to go through to a Quarter Final.
During the training, students are given the skills and the confidence to develop and deliver a competition speech on a topic that is important to them. The aim of the training and competition is to amplify young voices.
Having won the Digital Final, Shaye Temple qualifies for the Semi Final and therefore a chance to represent Havering at the Grand Final held later in the year. At the Grand Final shecould be competing not only for the honour of becoming this year’s “Speak Out” Challenge! Champion but also for the chance to win £5,000 (a £2,000 bursary for herself and £3,000 for her school.)
Well done Shaye!
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