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Falcon Weekly News Week 4 First Term 2006
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| Interhouse Public Speaking Competition Jonathan Samukange to represent Falcon at the
Lions Club Inter-Schools Public Speaking Competition
Form 4 Students go into "Life Skills"
Camp at Shalom in Matobo
Cross Country Results
Etiquette Society Tour of Worringham Wineries
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Interhouse
Public Speaking Competition The Best Speaker was Jonathan Samukange, (left) of Chubb who also won last year. Jonathan will represent the College in the Lions Club Inter-Schools Public Speaking Competition to be held on 6 March this year. Stringent rules applied: Junior speakers were expected to speak
for 3 minutes 30 seconds and anyone exceeding this time limit by more
than 30 seconds was penalized. Senior speakers were expected to
speak for 4 minutes 30 seconds and a penalty was applied for anyone
exceeding the time limit by more than 30 seconds. In the impromptu
speech a time limit of 1 minute was allowed with only 10 seconds
preparation time. Any speaker exceeding the time limit by 15 seconds was
penalized. On the right young Matthew Ward of Oates waits nervously to deliver his speech.
Michael Nyathi of George Grey delivers his speech to an attentive audience. He was chosen the best Junior speaker. The speakers acquitted themselves well despite the stringent rules and the adjudicators Mrs. Jacqui Stewart and Mrs. Patricia Ndlovu admitted that they had a difficult time deciding the winners. The best thanker this year was Adam Walters.
The overall winning House was Chubb, while the rest of the houses were ranked as follows Second - George Grey & Hervey Form 4 Life Skills Course at Matobo Hills Boys had a full daily programme of activities, starting at 0600 am right up to 1000 pm The boys appear to have generally enjoyed the various physical activities, particularly as there was lots of water around, in contrast to last November. A variety of lectures were also presented by the Family Impact team of organizers. A couple of the titles of these will give an idea of the emphasis of the camp. ‘Self Image: How do we judge others and ourselves’ ‘The keys to effective communication’ ‘ What’s in a family? : The importance of families, teenager/parent relationships’‘Understanding AIDS’ Our thanks to F.O.B. Danny Tanser for organizing the camp. Cross Country - The showers did nothing to dampen the spirit of the boys The intermittent showers did nothing to dampen the spirit of the runners during the Interhouse Cross Country race held on Wednesday 1st February. While the recorders and staff spectators scurried for cover in the Old Bushtick verandah, the runners splashed their way through the course. Hervey were the overall winners and the other houses were placed as
follows: The fastest junior was Kudakwashe Chiwanza of Tredgold who finished in a time of 19 min 26 sec while the fastest Senior was Keith Wale of Oates who finished in 19 min 2 sec
Etiquette Society - Wine makers of the future? As a follow-up to the talk given by Gordon Macdonald on 27 January, members of the Etiquette Society visited Worringham Wineries situated between Esigodini and Bulawayo on 30 January.
Mr. Colin de Villiers, who runs the winery and has done so for the last 20 years, showed us through the factory taking us through the various stages of wine-making; from the picking of the grapes, the detaching, the making of the grape juice, the fermentation and finally the storage. The wine is then moved by bulk tankers to Afdis Distillers in Harare where it is classified and bottled.
Mr. de Villiers explains the fermentation process to the attentive members of the Society.
After the talk Mr. de Villiers took the members to the company's wine-testing bar where two bottles of white wine and one bottle of red wine were started. A very pleasant and informative visit was had by all. The Etiquette Society is grateful to Mr. de Villiers for organizing the event and finding time to talk to us.
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Hall on Thursday 2nd February. Each boy had to show his linguistic and
presentational skills
on a topic of his own choices and on an impromptu speech.. The boys were judged on the
strength of their preparation (use of notes, content, organization); representation (eye contact, gestures, appearance,
voice and
body language); audience response and their handling of the impromptu
speech. 
