What an eventful and productive Term 1 we have had in the Languages Department with our students. It has been wonderful having the boys back for a full term of face-to-face learning. This year we welcome Sensei Ryx Wang and Sensei Christopher Lee teaching Japanese and we thank Professoressa Viviana Stangherlin for replacing Professoressa Diana Dodig who was on leave and returns to the team at the beginning of Term 2 teaching Italian.

It gives me great pleasure to share the successful results of our school competing in the Education Perfect World Languages Championship 2022 competition last month. From March 8 – 15 our boys were challenged to answer as many questions correctly using the EP platform in Italian and Japanese, to enhance their knowledge and understanding of the language they are learning. Participants earned a point for every question answered correctly. The results are outstanding and for the first time in our five-year history of the competition, we have our first student to achieve the highest award category Elite. Congratulations to Ethan Gissara (Year 8 Italian) in Professoressa Rabusin’s class for achieving a massive 10,408 points. Ethan spent approximately 30 hours completing questions and modules across that week and this demonstrates phenomenal discipline, commitment, hard work and dedication.

Alongside Ethan as our top scorer, there are 30 other boys who also worked extremely hard to achieve their respective awards. Please see the list of names below of all the boys who excelled in this competition.

The Languages Team look forward to recognising the achievements of all the boys when we return in Term 2 at our upcoming High Achievers Assembly, where the boys will each receive their Award and a prize.

I wish all in our community una Buona Pasqua (a Happy Easter) with your families during the term break and look forward to working with your son in Term 2.

Saluti / Arigatou,