NCCA students recognized for speech meet

newcovenantHARDIN – New Covenant Christian Academy students who recently placed first, second or third in their respective grades’ speech meets were awarded medals and the top finishers are invited to a regional meet.

The winners, in order, were Crider Cunningham, Evie Schroeder and Jaye Williams in first grade; Jacey Crowell, Addie Miller and Kadie Stephenson in second grade; Kilee Bidwell, Cate Taylor and Jonathan Siress in third grade; Samantha Molle, Carter Koenig and Ethne Taylor in fourth grade; and Morgan Scarborough, Reba Alexander and Sarah Grace Smith in middle school. These winners received medals on Monday, Nov. 9 during school.

The first-place winners in each grade have an invitation to advance to the Centurion Recitation Invitational on Jan. 15 held at the Creation Museum in northern Kentucky.

“One of our goals at New Covenant is for the students to be confident public speakers and to practice skills needed to be a winsome leader,” NCCA Head of School Tara Siress said. “The inaugural speech meet helped the students in those areas.”

For the school’s speech meet, all students chose poetry, Bible passages, folklore/fables, or historic/literary selections to recite for their classes and outside judges. The judges were Dr. Tim Worley, Luna Greer, Ricky Cunningham, Vickie Son and Terri Lampkins. They scored the students’ presentations on volume, flow of language, expression, enunciation and punctuation, eye contact, and poise and posture.

NCCA opened for the 2010-11 school year and has expanded each year to offer preschool through seventh-grade. Students are exposed to a God-centered biblically-based education as the foundation of all truth and knowledge. New Covenant is located at 218 College St. in Hardin. More information about the school is available online at www.nccaky.org.