Once again our students have been very active in the international language competition, earning certificates and awards across a variety of languages, especially Japanese, French, Samoan and Te Reo. 

By the end of the week’s competition, our students had answered 962,020 questions, ranking Riccarton High School 30th internationally out of 1,111 schools around the world, and first in French, second in Samoan and first in Japanese in New Zealand for a school of our size.

The following students were particularly successful:

Medal winner:

Lillian Renwick was third in the world for Greek

Elite:

Josh Devereux, Andrew Fordyce, Amelia Graham, Brylea Hollingshead, Panmai Kernkhunthot, Jamin Kim, Annabelle Lam, Inise Manu, Boniface Mao, Bonnie Maxwell, Aidan Morris, Simon Ovalle Pasten, Lily Renwick, Aislinn Rogers, Erika Shimazaki, Emily Ting, Nicholas Ting, Sarah Wallace, Vanessa Ye

Gold:

Melanie Aitken, Cassidy Alexander, Kate Belcher, Luke Brennan, Marcus Brorens, Michelle Churcher, Ben Dierckx, Ashleigh Hansen, Sasha koimyama-O’Keefe, Ruby Laugesen, Elizabeth Li, Raymond Lu, Hannah MacClure, Campbell Madsen, Becky Marshall, Sarah Marshall, Emily McAuley=Scott, Matthew Mullin, Joshua O’Halloran, Joshua Paul, Aimee Prentice, Anusha Raazesh, Breanna Rayner, Tamara Reeves, Olivia Singleton, Max Walton, Alice Wareing, Courtney Watson, Francesca Zhang

Silver:

Leah Albrow, Gutu Arona, Matthew Bruerton, Alex COrboy, Andrew Liu, Catylin Roberts, Jeremy Tuiletufuga

Bronze:

Jason Alexander, Joshua Daglish, Sarah Eade, Georgina Fee, Gabrielle Gibb-Faumuina, Nailah Hasi, Shonny Jones, Jess Leary, Tim Meynell, Tash Ryan, Simona Sava, William Semple, Monnie Smith, William Wallace

Credit:

Daniel Bruerton, Melanie Bryant, Gabrielle Chai, Cameron Connor, Samuel Gamble, Samara Hall, Matthew Ladbrook, Kathryn Lee, Erick Malaquias Da Silva, Apoorva Patelkhana, Emma Patmore, Brin Williams, Callista Wong, Hedy Wong, Laura Wu