Speech+Competitions

Well done to our speech finalists - Lexi, Matthew and Xanthe. You did a great job in representing our class.

Why smoking should be BANNED By Lexi What’s the matter with smoking cigarettes? In the magazines you see all of these sporty attractive people with cigarettes. So smoking must be good for you. We even have cigarette lighters in are cars. So what is bad about smoking? I’ll tell you what’s bad about smoking! Firstly smoking KILLS! Every year hundreds of thousands of people die from diseases caused by smoking cigarettes! According to wikianswers.com about 4,500 people die each year in NZ who smoke! According to the website [|www.quit-smoking-stop.com], if two hundred people smoked one hundred would die from their habit. Half of these deaths will occur in middle age. Not only does smoking kill a smoker but can also kill someone who is around a smoker. Secondly smoking costs a lot of money. On average one pack of cigarettes costs about $12.00. Some smokers smoke half a pack of cigarettes a day. That’s right a DAY, so they would be paying around $40.00 a week. One kid could go to four movies with $40.00! But if you quit smoking or you never smoked in the first place there would be a big difference if you stood beside someone who smokes. If you don’t smoke your breath smells a lot nicer. Plus your teeth would be a lot cleaner. If you smoke call the quit line now. I believe we should ban smoking .Then everyone would have a healthier lifestyle, and people wouldn’t mind standing next to someone who smoked because their breath wouldn’t stink! BAN THE CIGARETTES!! Pollution

Hello I’m Matthew and today I am going to talk to you about pollution. My view is that everyone should start using public transport or man power because of these reasons and I’m going to give you a solution.

First point Firstly pollution can kill you!!! Every 6 billion people on earth nearly 4 tons yes 4 tons of carbon dioxide is spewed into the air annually. Particles in vehicle emissions cause heart and lung problems can lead to early death. According to envirowarrior.com there are about 500 million cars on earth and that is expected to double to 1 billion. A growing problem. Vehicle exhaust contributes roughly 60% of carbon emissions nationwide and up to 95% in cities according to dosomething.org

Second point Secondly traffic jams. They might make you angry and annoyed or you could lose you job but did you know they cost the British industry 20 billion pounds every single year. Did you know the worlds longest traffic jam was 176 kilometer’s long. That’s about Christchurch to Timaru.

Solution Thirdly my solution is that the council should put in more bus lanes, more bus routes and more bus stops. Also more biking and walking lanes. You can make a difference by riding your bike, your scooter or just walking to school. You could take the bus or even car pool with some friends to make travelling around a lot easier.

Conclusion

If we all did this there would be a lot less pollution, cars on the road and this would make travelling more fun and you would get to school and work quicker if we did all this. Stop polluting the air!!!

Why Homework Should Be Banned From School   By Xanthe // I’m too tired, its too hard // are some of the many responses of children who don’t want to do their homework. They have the right to be moaning. Here are the facts about what homework does to us.

Firstly, our brains need rest to develop and they are not developing if they are up doing homework all night. According to www.braindevelopmentblog .com sleep time is important for brain development as the brain organises all materials, otherwise leads to confusion and loss of what is learnt.

We are getting sick of it. We start homework all ready and as it goes on we start to slack off, causing us to do sloppy work and sloppy work affects our grades. In the 2004 February Teaching Magazine, it said,”Be sure you never use homework to complete work you couldn’t finish during class.” It is when teachers do this that we have a large amount of homework.

Secondly, we are at school 6 hours a day. Do we really have to do it at home as well?! Whenwe grow up we have to work around 8 to 10 hours a day so I believe we should be able to have some fun after school while it lasts.

Last reason, family time is important. As our parents have to pay rising bills they have to work for longer hours so we don’t spend much time with them. Every second is valuable time being wasted on homework.

A good thing about homework is when you do homework you give Mum & Dad a chance to see what you are doing at school.

So that’s what homework is doing to us. If you want tired, dumb, very sad child keep homework but if you don’t ban homework now!!!!!!!!