From May 20 to May 30, students from Wyvern and Years 7 and 8 at Stanmore participated in a worldwide competition where they were able to deepen their knowledge of the language they are studying or to explore a new language from a variety of choices.

In the 10 days of competition 579 students answered a total 557,595 questions. An outstanding effort!!!

The following are some notable achievements from our students:

• 67th overall globally (out of 1054 schools)
• 49th overall in Australia (out of 705 schools)
• 15th overall in NSW (out of 163 schools)
• 26th overall in French (out of 833 schools)
• 29th overall in the 501-1000 students category (out of 110 schools)
• 16th for French in Australia (out of 534 schools)
• 26th in Australia for the 501-1000 students category (out of 93 schools)
• 6th for French in NSW (out of 132 schools)
• 7th in NSW for the 501-1000 students category (out of 11 schools)
• 26th overall in Latin (out of 592 schools)

Questions answered in each language: French: 345,261, Chinese: 47,724, Italian: 44,944, Japanese: 41,988, Latin: 28,193, German: 18,307, Spanish: 14,957, Indonesian: 7195, Maori: 5120, Greek: 4284, Russian: 477.

The student who achieved the highest score at Newington was Kelvin Du (7/ME) with 10,007 points. This was an outstanding effort, placing him 248th in Australia but more notably 465th in the world out of 120,000 participants. Kelvin achieved Elite status (10,000 points), and his certificate will be presented at a school assembly later in the year.

Other notable achievements:

Gold Awards (3000 points)

• Jeno Suh (7/JN)
• Adam Martin (7/JN)
• Gus Burton (7/KL)
• Liam Taylor (7/PR)
• Tobias Walsh (7/FL)
• Nicholas Lohmeyer (5/WI)
• Angus Mackie-Williams (7/PR)

Silver Awards (2000 points)

• Mitchell Long (8/MA)
• Dylan Foster (7/ME)
• Paul Stephen (7/PR)
• Will Osmand (7/ME)

Newington students also gained 31 Bronze Awards (1000 points) and 62 Credit Awards (500 points).

Congratulations to all boys on their efforts and many thanks to the Language Teachers at Wyvern and Stanmore for their support and encouragement of the students.

Mr Michael Bennett
Head of Languages