New Zealand Association of Languages Teachers Excellence awards

The Languages department has been celebrating student success in the NCEA examinations from last year. Each year the New Zealand Association of Languages Teachers awards excellence certificates to students who have achieved 14 excellence credits including 3 credits from external assessments. Congratulations to the following students:

• Emily McGifford NCEA Level 1 French
• Sarah Powley NCEA Level 1 French
• Taira Kawaguchi NCEA Level 1 Japanese
• Mae Orczy NCEA Level 1 Japanese
• Sahara Sagisaka NCEA Level 1 Japanese
• Teruko Tamura NCEA Level 1 Japanese
• Shelly Ueno NCEA Level 1 Japanese
• Maddison Teape NCEA Level 2 Japanese
• Moana Watanabe NCEA Level 2 Japanese
• Renee Gilfedder NCEA Level 3 Japanese
• Jude Van Houtte NCEA Level 3 Japanese

Education Perfect Languages Championships 2020

The World championship competition took place this term while we were in lockdown and many of our languages’ students took part in this annual language learning competition and between them, they answered a total of 190 567 questions.

Out of 2115 schools worldwide we came 119th.

We were 7th In New Zealand in our school size category.

Congratulations to all students who took part. Here is a list of the award winners:

• Vashti Fuentes 13,822 Elite
• Rinka Yokoyama 12,575 Elite
• Demmy Kouwenberg 10,101 Elite
• Phoebe Zhang 5,107 Emerald
• Sunny Radzyner 5,055 Emerald
• Cyryll Kabigting 4,577 Gold
• Jenny Kim 2,133 Silver
• Nicole Kim 2,012 Silver
• Charlotte Hammond 1,809 Bronze
• Elsie Scott-Cain 1,135 Bronze
• Holly Lennon 1,123 Bronze
• Amelia Pelham 1,019 Bronze
• Tia Lawson 1,006 Bronze
• Laura Powley 1,003 Bronze
• Tasneem Muslim 676 Credit
• Ava Croton 583 Credit
• Sophie McTurk 531 Credit
• Fiona Ariyarudeekul 500 Credit