Spinnaker Toastmasters Club
Spinnaker Toastmasters Club
This page has News about Spinnaker Toastmasters Club and its activities.
Six Speechcrafters have begun their six week Introduction to Public Speaking course and are off to a great start. They are learning how to deliver a 2 minute impromptu speech, and being evaluated on their performance. Experienced Toastmasters deliver educationals on various aspects of public speaking, including how to organise a speech, and how to evaluate another speaker. The Speechcrafters each have to deliver five short speeches during the course on a variety of themes, from introducing themselves in an Icebreaker, to using Vocal Variety and Visual Aids.
The photo below shows Club President and Speechcraft Coordinator Kath Cherrie explaining how to organise a speech, taking ideas from the audience about how a speech should be structured.
The Speechcraft Course is a Toastmasters Week activity, and the participants graduate after Easter.
Spinnaker Toastmaster Edward Griffiths received his Advanced Communicator-Bronze Award at the club meeting on Tuesday 9 March 2010.
Edward has completed the Competent Communicator Award, and to receive the Bronze Award, has completed a further ten speeches from the Advanced Manuals.
Club President Kath Cherrie presented Edward with his award at the club meeting on Tuesday 9 March 2010 (photo below).
Congratulations Edward!
Spinnaker Toastmasters Club held its annual prizegiving at the final meeting of the year on Tuesday 8 December 2009.
Table Topics consisted of a Secret Santa format, where speakers had to choose a mystery gift and then talk about it. Following this, there were two formal speeches by Susan on the Ideal Xmas Gift, and Dale on Climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Prizegiving was attended by recent past members David and Velma Knight, who came specially from the Kapiti Coast for the evening, to present their inaugural trophy, the Knight Award for Motivation.
The following photos show the recipients of the major awards.
Evaluation Trophy: Velma Knight
Humorous Trophy: Shona Smith
Table Topics Trophy: Velma Knight
International Speech Trophy: Dale Hartle
Most Improved Speaker Award: Hilda Broadhurst
Knight Award for Motivation: Fiona Cashmore
Toastmaster of the Year: Shona Smith
George Nicholson Trophy: Raychel Comerford (absent)
Congratulations to all the recipients.
Three Spinnaker Toastmasters judged the Parumoana Schools Speech Contest on Friday 20 November 2009 held at Aotea College.
The contestants were in two groups from years 5-6 and years 7-8. They spoke about a wide range of topics, from smoking, to smacking, tennis and chocolate. Several speeches were about animal rights, cruelty and abuse.
Chief Judge Dale Hartle DTM acknowledged all the participants for the huge amount of work they had put into their speeches, saying they were well structured, with strong openings and some had very humorous endings.
The photo above shows the winners with Rotary President, Rotary member and organiser David Knight, and the judges Dale Hartle (left), Velma Knight (centre) and Susan Finlay (right).
Shivash Mishra of Adventure School was the winner of the Parumoana Speech Competition year 7-8 division. This is a competition open to the schools of northern Porirua. His speech titled "My Culture" was a wonderful insight into his, Hindi, culture. It was also a sobering reflection on how we can put less than flattering labels on people who are different from us. He ended his speech with a request that: "We treat others how we ourselves would want to be treated". Shivash delivered the speech with poise and plenty of humour. He thoroughly deserved his win.
Shivash was assisted in his success by the training given to the year seven and eight students at Adventure school. Two Toastmasters from Spinnaker club, Peter Drew and Pauline Burgwin, undertook four training sessions with students on preparing and presenting a speech. These sessions covered writing a structured speech; using your voice; using your body; and using visual aids in a speech. Spinnaker will be running a similar course for adults beginning in February next year.
The students all enjoyed the practical nature of the training where Peter or Pauline presented information about an aspect of prepared speaking and then the students had a practical exercise to demonstrate the training. The sessions lead into the school speech competition of which Shivash was the winner; Kimberley Jong was 2nd with a passionate speech about human cruelty to animals which was supported by hard hitting visual aids; and Sam Lyth 3rd with a touchingly humorous speech about his guinea pig.
When David and Velma Knight announced they were selling their Plimmerton home and moving up to the Kapiti Coast, the members of Spinnaker Toastmasters Club knew the writing was on the wall.
On Tuesday 13 October 2009, Spinnaker farewelled David and Velma and wished them well in their new club at Coastmasters.
During the evening, guest speakers Tony Cross and Wendy Betteridge, and club member Dale Hartle DTM, acknowledged the contributions made by David and Velma during their time at Spinnaker. Chairman Graeme Blick outlined their substantial list of achievements in Toastmasters, and club President, Kath Cherrie presented the couple with a special rose plant for their new garden.
Above: David and Velma Knight receive their gift from Spinnaker President, Kath Cherrie.
David and Velma have also agreed that the club may present an annual trophy in their name.
Other guests at the farewell evening included members of the Kapi-Mana@Tawa Toastmasters club, and the Area E5 Governor Pauline Carr.
Spinnaker Speechcrafters, from left: Hilda Broadhurst, Tuong Nguyen, Airin Alamsjah, Richard Bostock (at back), Raychel Comerford, and Dale Hartle DTM, Spinnaker President and Course Coordinator
Five Speechcrafters graduated from Spinnaker Toastmasters Club's Autumn Speechcraft Course on Tuesday 9 June 2009. The course members had each presented up to 6 speeches during the course, participated in table topics, and learnt how to evaluate other speakers. They had listened to educational presentations by Spinnaker Toastmasters on how to introduce a speaker, evaluate another speaker, speak in table topics, and how to prepare their speeches within the allotted time.
Dale says that the Speechcraft participants were a very talented and dedicated group, who gave many interesting speeches about their lives, families, work and travels. All the Speechcrafters had improved their speaking ability during the course, and went from feeling terribly nervous and shaking with fear at the beginning, to being able to deliver a 5 minute speech calmly and comfortably by the end of the course.
On graduation, the Speechcrafters were presented with their new member pack which consists of the Toastmaster Competent Communicator and Competent Leader Manuals, and their Speechcraft participation certificate.
Kath Cherrie completed her first Advanced Manual assignment at Spinnaker Toastmasters by demonstrating how to make and serve "Nana's Pastry" - all in the seven minutes allotted to the speech.
Kath showed us how to prepare the ingredients, roll out the pastry, and prepare it for the oven. At the end, Kath surprised us by uncovering a plate of ready to eat pastry bites she had prepared in advance, and invited us to enjoy them for supper!
Everyone loved them, and we took home Kath's recipe to try it out for ourselves.
Here's Kath demonstrating how to make the pastry.
And here is the recipe for you to enjoy:
Ingredients: 1 cup flour, 250 grams butter, 1 teaspoon vinegar, quarter teaspoon salt, milk to mix
Method: Put flower and salt into a bowl or food processor, cut butter into this. Add vinegar and enough milk to bind together. Roll out 3 times and fold into 3 in each direction in between rolling. Bake in hot oven.