ITALIAN
Italian this year has been jam packed! Apart from our usual annual activities of excursions, craft making, taste testing and “Mastercuoco”- “Masterchef” cooking lessons, there has been a focus on Languages Week and Language Perfect. From 15 - 25 May 2017 Language Perfect (which is a sub strand of Education Perfect) held its World Championships whereby language students from around the world competed in an online competition. This was the first year Emmanuel Catholic College entered with the Year 8, 9, and 10 Italian students as the participants. They worked extremely hard and the results were accordingly astounding.
BENISSIMO The World Wide Championship competition yielded impressive results for our Emmanuel students:
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TOP 5 ACHIEVING STUDENTS NAME Dion Mazzone Luca Monastra Caitlin Silas Amy Barr Alex Papalia
YEAR
8 10 9 8 9
COLLEGE OVERALL RESULTS PLACE CATEGORY 1st
In WA of the schools that entered under 50 students for the subject language of Italian
3rd
In WA of the schools that had entered under 50 students (out of 130 schools) all languages
9th
In Australia in the same category (out of 132 schools)
ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED FOR THE WEEK
• Pasta/risotto hunt • Form quizzes • Bocce on the Green A selection of Aboriginal instruments in the
• Library for students to play
There was even a note board set up in Student Services in which students were invited to stick words/messages in different languages to promote the diversity of languages.
LANGUAGES WEEK The Modern Languages Teachers’ Association of WA introduced an initiative this year whereby a number of competitions were held and offered to Language students around Western Australia during Languages Week.
Overall worldwide for the same category (under 50 students)
One of the competitions was titled “Languages in Our Landscapes.” It involved students taking photographs 77th Overall in WA out of 140 schools in our environment and show how these related to their lives, surroundings and backgrounds. Stuart 655th Overall globally out of 1293 schools Clifton-James from Year 10 is to be congratulated for Congratulations to all students who took part and we his efforts. look forward to continuing these great results. 27th
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LANGUAGES WEEK AIMS TO: Raise awareness and value the language diversity in WA society Celebrate languages education in our
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Spread information throughout the wider community about the cognitive, social, health and economic benefits of language learning and being multilingual
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2017 YEARBOOK
One last mention; I’m excited to announce that next year will see for the first time at the College, Italian being offered at ATAR level. Forza Italiano! Mrs Marianna Fisher Italian Teacher
