Anglo-French Society competitions
For the first time in recent years, Solihull School entered a team in two age groups of both the Madame Best and A H Mills competitions run by the Anglo-French Society, hosted by Birmingham University. The competitors prepare and learn a poem or paired reading and then perform in heats of up to 10 competitors from schools in the Birmingham and Solihull area. They are judged on their pronunciation, delivery and expression by a panel of native French speakers from the Modern Languages Department at the university. If they get through the heats they are invited to perform in the Finals in front of all the assembled schools and judges.
Although the tension really mounts in the Finals I am delighted to report that Alex Weaver IVB was highly commended and Chris Williamson IVB won first place in the under 14 poetry competition. Ed Houghton UVI came second in the sixth form competition. In the reading competition, Chris Kirby (IVC) and Will Barber (IVC) came second and Chris Williamson and Alex Weaver won first prize. In the sixth form competition, Ed Shelley (LVI IIS) was highly commended, Nick Lunn (LVI IJ) came third and Lucinda Griffiths (LVI IS) and Julia Shelley (LVI IIS) were awarded joint second place. Julia Shelley also came second in the Héretier essay writing competition. We hope to enter teams in all three competitions in 2006/7 following this year’s success.
Mrs C E Checketts