The Languages Poetry Finals Evening was held on Thursday 18 June in a number of venues throughout the school. It gave boys the opportunity to showcase their talent by reciting poetry in Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Modern Greek and Spanish. The students who achieved first place in each category were presented with an iTunes gift card on the evening. Special mention should be given to Jack Alscher (9/FL) who placed first in both French and Latin, an amazing achievement.

The calibre of this year’s finalists was extraordinary and I would like to thank the Language Staff and parents for their support in this competition.

The aim of learning a poem provides boys with a challenge, an extension task that takes them often into unfamiliar territory, but at the same time provides students with a real sense of achievement.

The winners of the 2015 Languages Poetry Competition are:

• Year 7 Chinese – Arky Wild (7/FL)
• Year 7 French – Zach Leung (7/KL)
• Year 7 Latin – Alex McEvoy (7/FL)
• Year 8 Chinese – Ethan Whitty-Pike (8/LE)
• Year 8 French – Harry Rowland (8/FL)
• Year 8 Latin – Jonathan Lee (8/FL)
• Year 9 Chinese – Thomas Papasavvas (9/FL)
• Year 9 French – Jack Alscher (9/FL)
• Year 9 Latin – Jack Alscher (9/FL)
• Year 10 French – Lucas Greenslade (10/MO)
• Year 10 Japanese – Brian Wu (9/KL)
• Year 10 Latin – Richard Zhang (10/LE)
• Year 11 French – Fletcher Howell (11/JN)
• Year 11 Italian – Alex Bruce (11/MA)
• Year 11 Japanese – Jordan Clementson (11/LE)
• Year 11 Latin – Marco Stocca (11/LE)
• Year 11 Modern Greek – William Papapetros (11/ME)
• Year 11 Spanish – Kurt Bush (11/ME)

Mr Michael Bennett
Head of Languages