Republic Day Competitions 2025

Our Republic Day competitions are for 3rd grade and older kids only.
The younger kids participate in Republic Day Fancy dress parade on Jan 26th in the Assembly.

Backup day – 2/9 Sunday – Republic Day Competitions 10:30am-11:30am – Writing and Speech only
Writing 10:30-11:30pm in Dining room
Speech 10:30-11:30pm in M2, M3 rooms

This year the theme is centered around ‘Rising Above Fear’ and ‘Nature is my Teacher’
Please encourage your kids to participate. Do signup your kids to help the planning. 

Walk-ins are welcome!

Writing topics:
Elementary school – ‘Nature is my Teacher’
Middle school – ‘Rising Above Fear’
High school – ‘Rising Above Fear’.

Rules for writing: 

Please join 5 mins early as the instructions will be given at the beginning. 

Speech topics: 6th gr and up

‘Rising Above Fear’

Rules for Speech:  (You can do speech competition after Art/writing if participating in multiple competitions)

1. Prepare your speech so that when you present it to the audience it is 3-4 mins long. It should be a minimum of 3 mins and not more than 4.5mins.
2. You may use a note card for cues but cannot read it verbatim.
3. Points will be given for:
Length of speech – not too short or too long
Clarity of speech – not too fast, clear and audible
Organization of content (good beginning, middle, ending, not repeating)
Quality of content (relevant to topic, usage of quotes, BV learnings, humor)
Presentation of content – Effective delivery and eye contact with the participants

Check out the videos of the various competitions from previous years.