Spinnaker Toastmasters Club, Porirua City, NZ #7868/72
Spinnaker Toastmasters Club, Porirua City, NZ #7868/72
This page has News about Spinnaker Toastmasters Club and the activities of our members.
Four Spinnaker Toastmasters braved the cold on a blustery Saturday morning to promote Toastmasters to market-goers at the Porirua Saturday morning market in Cobham Court.
Stacey and Jocelyn talk to an interested member of the public.
Also in attendance were Jocelyn Syme from Porirua Central and Tawa Toastmasters Clubs, and Mel Schmidt from Porirua Central.
The clubs offered free tea or coffee and biscuits to people, and handed out pamphlets, business cards, and The Toastmaster magazine to interested people.
Fiona peeks out from behind the Toastmasters banner.
The event was a combined 3-club membership building activity, and nabbed several potential members with invitations to come along to the next club meeting.
Spinnaker Toastmasters Club elected its new Club Executive for the 2012-13 Toastmasters year on 15 May. The incoming President is Peter Drew, VP Education is Kath Cherrie, VP Membership is Stacey Rickard and Treasurer/Secretary is Dale Hartle DTM.
The new executive takes over on 1 July, and will attend club officer training to learn the leadership and administrative skills needed to operate the club.
Spinnaker Speechcraft 2012 got off to a great start on Tuesday 24 April with 8 budding Toastmasters plunging into public speaking.
The Speechcrafters all participated in Table Topics, and listened to educationals about Table Topics and how to prepare an Icebreaker Speech.
Ably assisted by visiting Toastmasters, and Spinnaker Toastmasters, the Speechcrafters will spend the next 5 weeks practising impromptu speaking, and preparing and delivering speeches on a variety of themes, starting with an Icebreaker, introducing an aspect of themselves to the audience. We wish them all the very best of luck.
Pictured below are 7 of the Speechcrafters with Coordinator Kath Cherrie (left).
Division Governor Sarah Bate DTM, along with Area E5 Governor Mary Clarke and Area E7 Governor Carol Mitchell, visited Spinnaker Toastmasters Club on Tuesday 17 April (pictured above). It was great to have such high-powered visitors come along and present speeches and evaluations.
While there, Area E5 Governor Mary Clarke (right) presented Spinnaker President Fiona Cashmore (left) with a gift for achieving six out of seven club members attending the recent club officer training sessions.
At our meeting on 3 April, Spinnaker TV was launched - and in a first for the club two members completed their assignments at the same time, with Kath appearing 'on TV' while Fiona facilitated a discussion. The session was videotaped for analysis after the meeting. In the photo below, Fiona (left) acted as the host, and Kath (right) was the talk show guest.
Spinnaker Toastmasters Club held a Speechathon on Tuesday 20 March with 16 people attending. We had seven speeches plus table topics, on a wide variety of topics. Three Toastmasters from Waikanae came along to present a speech, and we had a journalism student from Whitireia Community Polytechnic visit us as part of a writing assignment. Also present were several potential members.
Spinnaker Toastmasters are settling in to their new venue at St Andrews Parish Centre in Steyne Avenue, Plimmerton, and unveiled their new club banner.
Pictured above at Plimmerton are: Stacey Rickard, Susan Finlay, John Butt, Shona Smith, Fiona Cashmore, Peter Drew, Kath Cherrie, Dale Hartle.
In their second meeting of the 2012 year, the club farewelled Shona Smith (pictured fourth from left) who left New Zealand for the United States at the end of March. Shona has been a stalwart of the Spinnaker club for the past few years, winning many of the club's speech contests, and representing the club at Area and Division level. The Club warmly farewells Shona and wishes her the best of luck in her new venture with her family in Nashville.
The Toastmasters New Zealand "Solid Gold"District Convention is being held from 4-6 May in Dunedin. This year it celebrates the 50 years of Toastmasters in New Zealand and will be a stunning event.
Club President Fiona Cashmore presented Dale Hartle DTM (pictured on right below) with the Spinnaker Toastmasters Club "Toastmaster of the Year Award" at the club's annual prizegiving event on Tuesday 13 December 2011.
Porirua's simple to use Sports Ground Updates website called www.updates.co.nz has won the Excellence in Information Management Award and also came 3rd in the Excellence in Innovation Award at the ALGIM 31st Annual Conference in November 2011. Website Manager and Spinnaker Toastmaster Dale Hartle says Porirua's sports teams, parents and coaches, and Council staff, are all benefiting from the new website. "The Updates website enables the public to receive up-to-date information about whether a sports ground is open or closed for training or weekend games, wherever they may be, on whatever device they choose." She says streamlining a previously time-consuming process into a quick and easy one-click update and notification system has made all the difference for our administrators and users.
Dale Hartle (pictured centre above) receiving the Innovation Award.
Dale Hartle (pictured centre above) receiving the Excellence in Information Management Award.
The speaking opportunities arising out of this award included a 15 minute presentation as a Case Study at the Conference to the judges, and a 15 minute demonstration of the new website to her business unit colleagues at the Porirua City Council.
Dale Hartle DTM, Secretary of the Spinnaker Toastmasters Club, was the Chief Judge at the Annual Parumoana Speech Contest held at Aotea College on Friday 25 November. The contests have the top speakers in Years 5-6 and Years 7-8 from local schools competing for the speech championship, which is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Plimmerton.
Back row: Austen Rangi (Papakowhai), Rebekah Lidgett (Plimmerton), Sayla Southee (Discovery), Chief Judge Dale Hartle, Sarah Jenner. Front row: Phillip Reidy, Rosie O'Hagan (St Theresa's), Emily Drake (Papakowhai), Aimee Freeman (Adventure).
In her address after the contests, Dale told the budding young public speakers that the judges had enjoyed the range of topics, the excellent structure used, and the humorous delivery. It was clear all the contestants had done a lot of research and preparation for their speeches, and this was reflected in their well thought out use of descriptive language, facts, and supporting quotations.
Dale also presented the placegetters and winners with their prizes and trophies.
At the Spinnaker Toastmasters meeting held on Tuesday 13 September, a combined live Radio and Television interview was conducted by Kath and Fiona. Kath was completing an advanced assignment conducting a live television interview, and Fiona was completing her assignment of a live radio interview. They talked about Toastmasters and the benefits of joining a club, promoting Spinnaker Toastmasters as the club of choice. The session was video-taped and audio digitally recorded for later analysis, and verbal and written evaluations were also provided. This was an unusual combination of assignments from the Public Relations Advanced Manual, and gave both speakers and the audience an opportunity to witness an example of how to conduct an interview, or be interviewed live.
Spinnaker Toastmaster Shona Smith won the Area E5 Humorous and Table Topics contests held at Mana College on Saturday 10 September 2011. Shona competed in the Division Contests held on Saturday 8 October in Petone but was unplaced. Congratulations Shona!
Division E Humorous Contest participants: Shona Smith, 6th from right.
Division E Table Topics Contest participants: Shona Smith, 5th from right.
Kath Cherrie completed an 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.