ALL Essex & East Anglia - Have Your Say competition.
We're back!
The Have Your Say competition (HYS) is relaunching for 2025. Schools in Essex & Suffolk who have previously participated in this event (prior to 2020) should have received an entry form from our HYS Co-ordinator. If you have not received any information and wish to take part please contact [email protected] You can also check the ALL Essex & East Anglian Facebook page for further information.
Schools are invited to enter pupils for this year's exciting competition for young linguists, now in its thirty-third year. There will be four sections for each language and pupils will work in pairs and may enter for one section in one language only (maximum 2 pairs per section per school). Entries can only be for the correct age group, i.e. Year 7, 8, 9 or 10. Please note that pupils will be disqualified if inappropriately entered and native speakers are not permitted to enter the competition in the language which they speak at home or in which their parents are native speakers.
THE COMPETITION – Pupils in all sections will compete in pairs and will perform, without notes, one dialogue chosen from those supplied to the teacher in advance. The top four pairs in each section will go through to the regional final. The dialogues provided for Years 7-9 will be open-ended, i.e. pupils will be expected to provide their own conclusion of 4 lines. Year 10 pupils will be expected to write a dialogue (maximum 14 lines, i.e. 7 lines each) based on one of two outlines provided, using at least 8 phrases from those given. We appreciate that teachers will wish to offer some help to their pupils in the preparation of the dialogues, but it is anticipated that most of the work will be done by the pupils themselves. Judges will be allowed to disqualify or mark down those pupils using language considered too difficult for their age/level. In the final, all competitors will perform their original dialogue and an additional language task suitable for their age group.
ENTRY FEE – £2 per pair where the teacher or school are members of the ALL. Please provide membership number on the entry form. £4 per pair where teachers are non-members.
THE PRELIMINARY ROUND will start promptly at 4.30pm and finish at 6.30pm approx. at two locations. Refreshments will be available from 4pm. You are asked to choose the most convenient venue for your pupils. Should any venue become too full, we may have to ask the last entries to select another venue.
Woodbridge School, Woodbridge, IP12 4JH
Tuesday 25th February 2025
Westcliff High School for Girls, Westcliff-oon-Sea, SS0 0BS Tuesday 4 March 2025
The Stanway School, Colchester, CO3 0QA
Tuesday 25 March 2025
THE REGIONAL FINAL will be held on 14 May 2025 at Thomas Lord Audley School, Colchester, CO2 8NJ. At the final there will be refreshments from 4pm. We aim to start promptly at 4.30pm and finish by 7.30pm approx.
Participating schools are reminded that no one may photograph any pupils in the Have Your Say competition, other than their own pupils. There will be an ALL banner which teachers may use as a background if they wish to photograph their own pupils. Please be advised that no recordings are allowed during the competition.
The enclosed entry form should be returned by Friday 10 January 2025 together with proof of payment of the appropriate fee. Payment is possible only by BACS to Association for Language Learning - Account No 10925675 Sort Code 20-22-67. Please return form and copy of BACS payment authorisation to Mrs Lucia Verona via email: [email protected]
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