Norwalk Large Group & Individual Speech

03/31/2026

It was a joy to celebrate Rylee and Natalie at All-State!

03/17/2026

Congratulations, Natalie & Rylee! You’re going to All-State!

This is Natalie’s 3rd time qualifying for All-State and Rylee’s first!

Rylee qualified for her Expos Address about the messages behind famous paintings, titled, “Beyond the Canvas”

Natalie qualified for her Literary Program about animals and what they mean to us, titled, “Animals, Animals, Animals”

03/15/2026

03/15/2026

Norwalk returns home from a successful day at Individual State Speech at Council Bluffs: Thomas Jefferson!

The team went in two shifts- Ms. Burrow took the morning crew over, then Mr. Clay brought the afternoon crew

Students delivered strong performances all day, capping off a great year of Large Group and Individual Speech! Especially proud of our seniors and their work over the years!

A few students have a chance for All-State nominations- we await the announcements on Monday.

SPEECH BANQUET! Come celebrate the whole season, honor our seniors, hand out certificates and awards, the Sunday before All-State Speech! Sunday, March 29th in the Warrior Zone.

03/01/2026

Norwalk Individual Speech performs well at District Competition at Bondurant-Farrar!

29 students competed in 36 events, with 23 events advancing to State!

Everyone delivered wonderful performances on the day, and Ms. Burrow, Mrs. Grafft, and Mr. Clay are impressed and proud!

State Speech is in 2 weeks at Council Bluffs: Thomas Jefferson!

02/28/2026

Norwalk Individual Speech is off to District Competition at Bondurant-Farrar HS!

37 performances slated for the day! Let’s have some Norwalk Activities & Athletics

02/21/2026

Hear ye! Hear ye! The All-State Festival has commenced!

Today was a day to celebrate seven outstanding students on their All-State nominations!

Chronically Online News got huge laughs from the critic and audience

Hadestown didn’t get to perform, but were thrilled at the opening ceremonies and pictures with the All-State banner. According to Mr. Clay’s research, they are the first Musical Theater group from Norwalk to achieve an All-State nomination!

We had a great day! Thanks to the Geisler’s for getting Eli to and from Ames and Indianola. Break legs and be great in all your Jazz Band and Show Choir performances today, students!

02/20/2026

Speech Showcase! Thanks everyone for coming out and putting it on!

Thank you to our guest judges:
Mrs. McGee & Mr. Bruns from Pleasantville
Mrs. Grafft for her wonderful feedback & Ms. Burrow for filling in!

Thank you to our seniors! Thank you to those musical theater kids who worked so hard to perform just at Showcase!

Swing by sometime in the next week to look at your ballot for more feedback! Everyone has work to do still, and thankfully you've got 9 days to get that work in! For those of you who are I-'s and II+'s, what can you do in the next week to make yourself a solid I at District and make it to State? PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE! Run it at home multiple times every day! You only get so much time with us at practice, those who put the work in on their own will see it pay off!

02/19/2026

Due to impending weather, the Individual Speech Showcase is moving up to 5pm! We will begin performances right at 5pm!

No parent meeting, we’ll email details about District Competition at a later date.

02/07/2026

Final results on the day!

5 groups with straight I’s
Team Canada with an overall I
3 groups with II scores

Great work today and this season, speech students! We’re proud of you!