Newington has been placed first in the state in the NSW State Championships in September. Students from across the Wyvern and Stanmore campuses completed  a staggering 955, 514 vocabulary translations  in order to take first place, a huge achievement.

However, this result has not come out of thin air. Newington College was placed third in the Championships last year, and in May of this year was ranked in the top 20 schools worldwide in the Language Perfect World Championships.

The NSW State Championships were decided after schools went up against other schools to see who can answer the most questions over a week-long period in a number of languages. Students were able to revise and improve their skills in the language/s they are studying or try their hand at a new language. Overall there were 329 participating schools vying for the title with Newington prevailing.

Individual language results are as follows:

• Arabic – 2nd
• Chinese – 2nd
• French – 1st
• German – 6th
• Greek – 1st
• Indonesian – 4th
• Italian – 4th
• Japanese – 5th
• Latin – 1st
• Maori – 1st
• Russian – 6th
• Spanish – 4th

Special mention to the students who achieved Gold Awards:

Year 10

• Aiden Chan (10/PR)
• Benjamin Tran (10/KL)
• Patrick Kirton (10/FL)
• Stephen Chan (10/JN)
• Fletcher Howell (10/JN)
• David Murray (10/PR)
• William Tao (10/KE)

Year 9

• Justyn Ly (9/LE)
• Jasper Yeghiaian-Alvandi (9/PR)
• Brendon Zhang (9/PR)

Year 7

• Harry Rowland (7/FL)
• James Triantafilis (7/MA)
• William Hobbins (7/MA)

Congratulations to all students from both campuses!

Mr Michael Bennett
Head of Languages