POWER OF WORDS HONING skills at contestants was, the ESU-Churchill taking complex issues Public Speaking in their stride: Queen Competition’s Elizabeth High’s Lincoln heat in Arwen Williams won February, eventual Best Speaker, De winners A s t o n ’ s A l i c i a - N E W S L E T T E R — SPRING 2 0 1 9 Grammar battled Meredith, Best Questioner, and The Pembroke Queen Elizabeth’s Priory’s Hannah Fox, Best Chair, with an award High, De Aston, for outstanding performance to Amaya Clarke , Lincoln Minster, and competition from Lincoln Minster. first-timers The Priory Prembroke Academy, Journeying from Dartmouth House, the ESU’s Cherry Willingham. Alex Bailey led an expert judging panel, joined by Contestant Gareth Willey from De Aston Lincoln College’s Mark Locking and Lincoln captured the general feeling: “It’s an honour to University’s Deborah speak to a room Wilson-David. It was full of people and particularly enjoyable to be listened to.” witness how respectful and EVENTS attentive students were of WELCOME back to our newsletter; level of talent and passion; winners The spread of each other. a lot has happened since October’s Caistor Grammar went on to come individual awards Spring Lunch with update about how the ESU has second in the regional final by all demonstrated Many thanks to Branch Lord Hogan-Howe been promoting oracy in Lincoln- accounts, a close run evening. how high the organisers Rosemary At The IBCC shire and how we’ve been raising quality of the Burke, Caroline Childs and With the nation rocked by knife Canwick Avenue, funds to pay for it. e v e n i n g ’ s timekeeper Rachel Burch. crime tragedies over recent months, Lincoln LN4 2HQ Lincoln College warmly welcomed us we couldn’t have a more relevant 16th May 2019 to November’s Centenary Dinner speaker at our upcoming Spring 12:00-14:00 and our guest speaker broadcaster Lunch: ex- Met chief Lord £25 members/£30 non-mem LESSON TIME Michael Buerk charmed us all. Bernard Hogan-Howe has an Thank you to members, sponsors important voice in the ongoing

“IT’S harder for schools without a long history of opinions in a more formal, concise and structured and friends for supporting us and, discussion. especially, to organisers Camilla public speaking and debating initially to make manner. The leader of thewo rkshop was amiable The ESU launched its new-look web- Carlbom and Kelly Bevers whose site at www/esu.org and we dipped progress on their own,” said branch chairman and enthusiastic which really made students efforts helped us raise an impressive our toe into the world of Facebook Michael Graydon, explaining why the ESU come alive in the session. As well as this, he was £2,651. and Twitter—so do take a look while supported a one-day workshop at relatively new very well informed on the ESU procedures which With several programmes in action, we nail down details for a Summer The ESU Lincolnshire participant De Aston School, Market Rasen (see helped us prepare for our upcoming I would like to salute all the teachers evening at Doddington Hall and for Branch Annual General photo below right). competition…. My students are already asking who support our programmes and our autumn dinner with violinist Meeting 2019 hope they’re seeing benefits infuse Tamsin Little—and her violin! We’ll when the next one is!” & drinks Branch observers Caroline Childs and Rosemary through the broader school environ- be in touch shortly with more Mansions of the Burke were impressed with the results. The ESU In February’s competition in Lincoln, the De ment. We will soon complete the two details. Future sent oracy trainer Eddie Booth who looked at eti- Aston team impressed the judges and even took -term school oracy programme Dis- And, finally, please earmark Lincoln LN5 7EQ cover Your Voice in two primaries, quette, skills and uses of debating and of public home the prize for best questioner (see above). Wednesday 3 July in your diary for 3 July 2019, have started two more and we are speaking in general. He introduced students to our AGM. It will be a great 18:00-20:00 working with the ESU education opportunity to catch up and ensure All members welcome a systematic approach, based on points, evidence, team to fine-tune mentor recruit- we hear your views. expansion/explanation and linking back, eg, to ment and development and support Annual Dinner the motion (“PEEL”). Students finished up with a self-perpetuating legacy. With very best wishes from your Committee and I, with internationally a practice competition to try out new skills. Those of us fortunate enough to at- renowned violinist

De Aston’s Sarah Peacock explained “The work- tend February’s Lincoln heat of the Tasmin Little ESU-Churchill Public Speaking Sir Michael Graydon, 15 November 2019 shop was a valuable experience for our students Competition were invigorated by the as it made them think about formulating their

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LINCOLNSHIRE’S branch has long benefitted from a network that gives us widespread support and allows us to punch above our weight. Crucially, this helps us deliver important programmes that can make a big difference to children across the county whilst ensuring our members continue to be involved and generously contribute to our activities through a host of interesting events. It also allows us to stay abreast of strategic decisions within what is a far-reaching international organisation.

Over the next few issues, we will celebrate some of the senior and dynamic figures that help Happy Birthday to us! us be ever more vibrant and relevant. This time we look at two ESU Lincolnshire Vice- Presidents: Paul Pumfrey OBE and Lord Cormack. CELEBRATING the ESU’s Centenary in style things, and discuss some of the issues facing helped the Committee supercharge the 2018 society, and young people in particular, with the dinner, giving guests an enjoyable evening prevalence of “fake news” and potential whilst raising over £2,650—enough to run two isolationism of social media. Demonstrating true Paul Pumfrey OBE terms of the ESU’s new oracy programme skills as a public speaker, he was able to make Discover Your Voice in two local primary us laugh and cry and certainly left us thinking. “Having been fortunate in travelling extensively abroad over the schools. Special thanks are due to the events team at years with my wife, we saw the importance of the use and under- The branch is indebted to award-winning jour- Lincoln College, who worked incredibly hard to standing of the English language,” explained Paul Pumfrey who nalist, BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze presenter make sure everything was perfect on the night, was recruited into the ESU by staunch local ESU advocate John Michael Buerk who generously volunteered his and also to our generous sponsors Langley’s and Roberts over 30 years ago and who has been an outstanding services to speak movingly about his time as a Brewin Dolphin. supporter of the Lincolnshire branch ever since. foreign correspondent, seeing truly terrible Within the branch, Paul served as Chairman (1995-2003) and has been a Vice-President since 2005. A chartered surveyor by trade, Paul was Chair and Managing Director of Bernard Pumfrey Construction Group (1968-85), and has held notable roles in the county including supporting Lincoln Cathedral as a Lay Member of Chapter, Lay Canon and finance committee member for over two decades, chairing important NHS committees in Lincolnshire and leading such appeals as the Road Hospice. He was Chair of the Shops Company from 2003-2014. Appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Lincolnshire from 1993 and High Sheriff for 2003-’04, Paul was awarded the STRINGS ATTACHED BLUE LIGHT LUNCH Order of the British Empire for services to the community in 1996. ONE of the country’s top and best-loved Classi- SIGN up quickly for lunch at the IBCC Lincoln cal violin soloists Tasmin Little OBE announced on Thursday 16th May with guest Lord Bernard Patrick Cormack, The Lord Cormack that she would be hanging up her concert Hogan-Howe, Commissioner of the Metropolitan gown in 2020 with a plan to focus on education Police from 2011-2017. Lord Hogan-Howe will LORD Cormack is a former governor of the English-Speaking and other non-performing projects from 2020. speak about how policing has changed and his Union and for many years was in charge of a parliamentary present work with youth organisations in programme in conjunction with the ESU, which brought over a We are delighted to deprived communities. With natural synergy to group of students from Washington DC to work in the offices of announce that Tasmin, the ESU’s own remit, his experience offers Members of Parliament. assisted by her violin, insight into the relevance for educational will be guest speaker at exclusion, and the role illiteracy Lord Cormack served in the House of Commons from 1970 to the ESU Lincolnshire and oracy can play, and, more 2010, when he took his seat in the House of Lords. He moved to Annual Dinner on Fri- widely, its relevance to rising Lincoln, Lincolnshire being his home county, in 2011 and is day 15th November knife crime, violence, general Chairman of the Historic Lincoln Trust and President of Heritage 2019. We are finalising crime and terrorism. Lincolnshire. He organised Lincolnshire’s Great Exhibition in details and will be in 2015, Magna Carta year, and Battles and Dynasties in 2017, to touch later in the year. For tickets or more information, mark the 800th anniversary of the Battle of Lincoln. please contact Mrs Kelly Bevers, Please do get in touch Lord Cormack’s support for the Lincolnshire Branch has brought if you’d like to be in- ESU c/o Carlbom Shipping Ltd, a number of distinguished speakers to Lincoln and attendance at volved in sponsoring Telephone 01469 571 387 events when his many commitments allows. this event. Email [email protected] Photo—Paul Mitchell