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In the twenty years that the Speaking Awards and in the thirteen years that the Writing Awards are held, there were a lot of students that competed in this contest. We can tell you over and over again about the fun and experience of these two contests, but we think it is better to let you read about the fun and the experience your predecessors had.
2008
Akhila Jambagi, runner-up in the Public Speaking Awards 2008 wrote about her experiences. Read her report.
Akhila also travelled to London to take part in the international ESU speaking competition. Read about her trip.
Another participant from the same school as Akhila, Matthijs Maas, also put pen to paper to write about the awards. Read his report.
Young Writers Award winner of 2008, Kristel Schoonderwoerd travelled to Shropshire last summer for a week long writing course at the Arvon Foundation. Read her report.
2007
As audience prize for the Public Speaking Awards 2007, Heidi Aho won a trip to Cambridge. Read her report.
Heidi also made it to the final of the English Speaking Union's International Public Speaking Competition in London. Read about this special experience.
Part of 2007 Young Writers Award winner Maggy van Eijk's prize was to attend a writing course at one of the Arvon centres
in the UK. This summer she went to Scotland for a 5-day writing
adventure. Read her report.
Arne Muis, runner up in the 2007 Young Writers Awards tells us about the exciting experience attending an evening with the poet Catherine Smith in the Arvon centre where he attended a writing course. Read about his encounter.
At
the launch of the BBC Awards in Belgium on 5 October 2007 Keye
Tersmette told the audience (teachers of English from a large
number of schools) about his motivation for participating in the
Awards and his experiences. Keye was one of the finalists in the
Public Speaking Awards 2007 in the Netherlands. Read
his speech.
2006
Casper van Gemert (S.G. Weredi, Valkenswaard) was winner of the Young Writers Awards 2006. Part of his prize was a writing course at one of the Arvon centres. Read about his experience here.
Kimberly
Camu won the audience prize at the 2006 Awards final. Her prize
was a trip to Cambridge, kindly provided by sponsor Buro Britain. Read her report.
Kimberly also wrote about her trip to London, where as winner in
the Netherlands, she competed in the international final. Read
.
Young
Writers Award 2006 runner-up Martin van Brakel (S.G. De Passie,
Utrecht) was quick to use his prize and attended a fiction writing
course at the Arvon centre The Hurst in Shropshire. Read
about his experiences here.
