A STUDENT aged 14 from Greenford High School won the Ealing regional final of Jack Petchey’s Speak Out Challenge.

It is the world’s largest youth speaking event, supported and funded by the Jack Petchey Foundation.

Nearly 700 Year 10 students in Ealing’s state secondary schools received a one-day public speaking and communications training workshop to prepare for it. 

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They came together at Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls, Acton, where Victory Kyeremeh, of Greenford High, scooped top prize of a £100 gift certificate and the chance to go through to the final at the Cambridge Theatre, Covent Garden, in July.    

Victory impressed the judges with a winning speech entitled Superheroes, about amazing everyday people.

Second place went to Hannah Zegeye, 14, of Brentside High School, and third to Africa Blagrove, 15, of Ellen Wilkinson School.

The Mayor of Ealing, Cllr Tajinder Dhami, presented the awards.