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Our pupils have done amazingly well in putting their language skills to the test in the prestigious UK Linguistics Olympiad. Pupils from across our Senior School and Sixth Form achieved an amazing 16 Bronze awards, 3 Silver awards, and 4 Gold awards across the Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced levels.
This was our sixth year as a school of entering the prestigious competition which is set by academics at University College London and is a challenging test of how language works (as opposed to how individual languages work).
At the beginning of February, 99 pupils from Year 7 to Sixth Form sat the two-and-a-half hour examination, Years 7-9 at Foundation level entry, Years 10 and 11 at Intermediate, and Years 12 and 13 at Advanced level.
Questions set included deciphering Buhid script (descended from Southern Indian scripts which spread east via the Indonesian islands of Sumatra, Java and Bali), translating sentences from Maltese, and interpreting whistle-sound-sentences used by the Mazateco people of Oaxaca, Mexico!
Our pupils did extremely well with our Gold award winners Maia, Darshan, Niranjan and Tom being placed in the top 5% in the country.
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