It gives me great pleasure to finally announce results of the ImmerseME Games which our students studying a language in stages 5-6 have achieved. Students have competed for the second year in the games, which is, an international language learning competition which saw nearly 20,500 students from 202 schools compete across 9 languages. Schools competing included those from Australia, New Zealand, UK and US to name a few. Students were tasked with activities used in authentic situations such as ordering in a restaurant, to introducing themselves, to having debates and forming arguments. Students used speaking or writing skills in the target language only (No English).
As it was the second year, in which we were competing I had high expectations, due to our amazing achievements last year of placing 2nd in the world among other accomplishments. We had a bigger team and had very enthusiastic students in the year 9 classes. Despite having camps, excursions and assessments which occurred at the same time our students did an amazing job working together to support the team and achieve the results which we did. Throughout the course of the week students also decided to explore other languages and hence further their cultural and linguistic exposure. This led to additional impressive results in these languages as well. At the end of the week, we achieved the following results as a school team;
· 2nd overall in the global rankings
· 1st in school category #2
· 1st in Italian
· 1st in Japanese
· 1st in Greek
Special thank you to Sabrina Hoang who has been leading the way with the Japanese students, emailing students, encouraging students and competing herself for the first time.
I am so proud to be able to share this mind-blowing achievement by our students, and, for students learning a Language as an elective here at the College.
Below are the notable rankings of the students with a ranking in their target language, a top 20 in another language, a top 20 for Australian students, and top 100 overall ranking:
YEAR 9
Ante Broz |
22nd Italian, 13th Greek |
Luke Coldicott |
25th Japanese |
Liam Duffy |
27th Japanese |
Jett Guyatt |
12th Japanese |
Kevin Anand |
88th overall, 9th Japanese |
Nathaniel Cant |
9th overall, 3rd Italian, 3rd Greek, 4th in Australia |
Brodie Dempsey |
22nd overall, 8th Italian, 6th Greek, 9th in Australia |
Flynn Jorda |
17th overall, 6th in Italian, 6th in Australia |
Sebastian Hunt |
25th overall, 10th Italian, 11th in Australia |
YEAR 10
Ryan Crellin |
42nd Japanese |
Dayne Visser |
18th Japanese |
Romao Rositano |
32nd Italian |
Riley Bahlmann |
25th Italian |
Logan Pelle |
21st Italian |
Connor Smith |
22nd Japanese |
Ben Raymond |
54th overall, |
Eoin Farrell |
44th overall, 6th Japanese |
Logan Wilson |
5th overall, 2nd Japanese, equal 1st Italian, 1st Greek, 1st in Australia |
Lachlan Turner |
7th overall, equal 1st Italian, 9th Indonesian, 5th Greek, 2nd in Australia |
YEAR 11
Sebastian Bianca |
33rd Italian |
Luke Norton |
45th Italian |
Hayden Walsh |
19th Japanese |
Harrison Bullock |
20th Italian |
Shay Tahana |
24th Italian |
Joshua Ongley |
72nd overall, 19th Italian |
Conor Mills |
81st overall, 17th Italian |
Cameron Gomesz |
18th overall, 3rd Japanese, 7th in Australia |
Declan Hamilton-Lewis |
15th overall, 5th Italian, 5th in Australia |
Ryan Snookes |
19th overall, 19th Spanish, 7th Italian, 8th in Australia |
Jarryd Torrevillas |
8th overall, 1st Japanese, 4th Chinese, 3rd in Australia |
Patrick Hunt |
28th overall, 11th Italian, 12th in Australia |
Marley Satchell |
30th overall, 13th Italian, 14th in Australia |
Luke Micallef |
31st overall, 12th Italian, 15th in Australia |
Evan Halliburton |
29th overall, 5th Japanese, 20th Chinese, 13th in Australia |
Awards and prizes will be presented to these students to celebrate their achievements on the global stage early next term.
Mrs Simone Baluch – Languages Coordinator