Students from St Swithun’s school took part in the Education Perfect Languages Championships 2021. Following a week of intense competition, St Swithun’s was awarded first place for UK schools and ranked an impressive 58th worldwide. Individually, 12-year-old student Cheryl Chu and Erin Thorne-Henderson, 15, both placed in the top 100 in the world, finishing 63rd and 65th respectively. The Education Perfect Languages Championship is a language learning competition where participants are awarded a point for every correct answer. The questions are from a large bank of vocabulary lists and from reading, writing, speaking or reading tasks. Head of German at St Swithun’s, Anne Steer, said: “I am so proud of our girls. We have surpassed our award count from the last championship. I commend the girls for their amazing team effort and am delighted to see their continued passion for learning languages, especially at the end of a very hard term.”
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Indian students from Dubai top global Arabic contest
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The students responded to 466,767 questions and secured 189,522 points.
A Dubai-based Indian school came second globally out of the 837 schools that participated in Education Perfect Languages Championship 2021.
Thirty-seven students of JSS Private School all non-Arabs secured high ranks in four different skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. The school also topped the 22 schools that attended the event from the UAE.
Dr Marwa Ali Maher Mahiaa, head of the department for Arabic at the school, said: “It was amazing to see non-Arab students excelling in the UAE language and beating native speakers in the competition. The online competition held between March 16 and 23, saw around 900 students from Grade3 to Grade 8 of JSS Private school spend around eight hours a day in the competition that had no syllabus but simply aimed at the Arabic proficiency levels of the students based on