Dis-Moi Dix Mots Winners!
Bravo students of Glen Eira College!!
I am delighted to tell you that our students have won a most amazing award. Students in the Year 9 Immersion class, Year 7 CNED and a Year 10 student submitted a project on the '10 words of the Francophonie' and won 1st prize in the Dis-Moi Dix Mots Annual International competition organised by the French Ministry of Education in partnership with the French Ministry of Culture and Foreign Affairs.
The students worked on the ‘10 words’ in class with their teacher Loveena Narayanen. Then, they interpreted the words in their own way and brainstormed ideas on how they could represent the words using the theme ‘LA TOILE’ which means ‘the web’. One of the instructions by Loveena was for students to ‘let your imagination travel to different horizons’.
The students' creations were amazing and Camille Lancelin, our intern from Telecom Lille, helped students to create a website which hosted all the projects.
800 projects were submitted internationally and GEC came first in the category ‘Etablissements à l’Etranger’: Overseas schools! We have been invited to attend the prize giving ceremony at the prestigious Academie Francaise in Paris on the 18th May with 2 students paid for by the Acadamie. GET Tours are also sponsoring a student to attend which is great news.
Attending with Loveena and myself are:
Tiphaine Chevalier Freyeisen
Tahlia Delaney-Murnane
Leah Sandow
Students completed expressions of interest - it was a difficult decision for the panel which included Ruth Gordon our School Council President, as all applications were of a high quality.
Here is the link to the project:
https://camlancelin.wixsite.com/dismoi10motsgec
Please jump on and have a look.
We have organised a ceremony on Wednesday 24th May at 11am at the school to celebrate the achievement of all students involved in making their project “Dis-Moi Dix Mots sur la toile” No 1 in the world! Cultural Counsellor, Bertrand Pous, Embassy of France will be in attendance.
Congratulations to all students involved in the project and to Loveena and Camille - outstanding!
Year 7: Noah Bennie, Tiphaine Chevalier Freyeisen, Alexine Dubois, Estelle Laville, Baptiste Mazuel, Emily McLenaghan, Ael Menard, Constance Thevenon, Lucas Vaidie, Jarrod Wisdom
Year 9: Kahiya Ali, Mitchell Bennie, Oscar Crick, Tahlia Delaney-Murnane, Kirra Foster, Lily Gordon, Rachel Hoch, Louis Jacobe de Naurois, Morgan Jaulin, Estelle Lipovetsky, Dominique Liu-Hervo, Julian Mansfield, Isabella McFarland, James McLoughlin Parsons, Pamela Parvakis, Aurelie Personnier, Christopher Rudel, Leah Sandow, Bridie Skinner, Kei Someda, Louis Villeseche, Cooper Walters
Year 10: Alice Sabouraud
Sheereen Kindler
Principal