The da Vinci Decathlon is an academic competition held every year at Knox Grammar School for the students lucky enough to be selected to compete. In the theme of a decathlon, it has ten events that da Vinci was famous for. This year’s Decathlon was centred around ‘the Unexpected’. So on the 24th of May, two teams of eight, one from Year 5 and one from Year 6 set off for Knox. With a 7.00am departure and not arriving back until 4.30pm in the afternoon, it was a long and tiring day. We had been training for months and were extremely excited and happy to be going to Knox for this great day.  We were very proud to be going to represent the school. The bus ride took about an hour, after arriving we had a team photo, gave out our badges and had a pep talk before heading into Knox’s amazing Great Hall. In Year 5 and Year 6, there were over 1,500 kids in this amazing hall. In the first session we did Science, English, Creative Producers and Ideation. In the second session we did Maths, Cartography, Engineering and Art and Poetry, before finally doing General Knowledge and Code Breaking in the final session.

During recess and lunch we saw lots of friends we had at other schools also there for the decathlon. Their were also fun activities such as pop quizzes and activities such as decorating the tablecloth throughout the day. These made the day very enjoyable and exciting. But we were all excited and looking forward to the biggest event of the day, the awards ceremony. and we were very happy and proud to get 3rd in Mathematics for the Year 6 team. and a 3rd in Cartography and 2nd in English for the Year 5 team. We were also happy to learn that Lindfield also had some fantastic results. So we headed back to Wyvern at the end of the day tired, happy and and proud.  We really enjoyed the mateship of the day and the opportunity for such growth in academics.

Results
Year 5 – 3^rd Cartography, 2^nd English
Year 6 – 3^rd Mathematics

William Verden, Andrew Vasilaras and Andrew Wayling, da Vinci Decathlon Captains