Tafuna High School is the overall winner of this year’s secondary School Speech Festival which was held today at Leone High School.
The hosts settled for second place, and Fagaitua High Sschool placed third.
About 500 students from 9 public and private high schools competed and students parents and faculty showed up to watch and cheer on the performers.
The results of the Speech Festival categories:
MONOLOGUE
1st Bernard Micah Williams of Fa’asao Marist High School
2nd Noelani Siataga of Tafuna High School
3rd Aisavali Loma Peters of Samoana High School
ORAL INTERPRETATION POETRY
1st Emla Solaita of Tafuna High School
2nd Tofiga Tufele of Fagaitua High School
3rd Gloria Matamua of Samoana High School
DUAL ACTING
1st George Tafuna and L.J. Teo of Fagaitua High School
2nd Filifiliauro Sa’au and Demelio Tua of Kanana Fou High School
3rd Charmaine Sooaemalelagi and Patopae Solaita
3rd Cecilia Sagato and Chloe Tuaua
IMPROMPTU SPEECH
1st Karlinna Sanchez of Samoana High School
2nd John Ma’a of Leone High School
3rd Kalala Jennings of Fagaitua High School
ORIGINAL SCRIPT WRITING
1st Kanana Fou High School
2nd Leone High School
3rd Fagaitua HIgh School
CHORAL RECITATION
1st Tafuna High School
2nd Leone High School
3rd Samoana High School
A member of the Speech Festival Planning Committee, Pualani Fui, says it was evident from the costumes, props and performances that the schools poured so much effort into their preparations for the festival.
She said with each passing year, the quality of performances keeps going up and the judges have a hard time selecting the winners.
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