They came, they saw, they conquered: Aranmore Catholic College students blitzed their global opposition to come seventh out of more than 1,000 schools around the world in an international language competition.
Australian students spent ten days from May 20-30 competing in the world’s largest online languages competition, the Language Perfect World Championships.
Aranmore was the top school in WA for the second year running.
Students worked as a team to answer over 1.4 million questions.
They also took the global prize as Top School in the World for Maori.
The College’s French students “had certainly been our driving force under Madame Béatrice Archambaud,” said College Principal, Mr Jim Elliott.
“It has proven to be a great community effort by more than half the school population.
“I think many students have a greater appreciation of the beauty and joy of another language,” said Mr Elliott.
The school placed:
– First in WA out of 114 schools
– First globally for Maori out of 491 schools.
– First in WA for French out of 92 schools.
– Fourth in Australia out of 705 schools.
– Seventh globally out of 1,054 schools.
Approximately 220,000 students from 1000 schools in 12 countries took part in this year’s competition, making it the largest participation in the six-year history of the event.
Students answered questions online in more than ten languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Maori, Russian and Spanish.