Languages

What a wonderful start to the term!

The Education Perfect Language Championships were off in full swing from

7-14 March.

Dunlop came away with the largest number of awards thanks to a big push by the Year 8 French HAP (High Achievers Program) class!

As a school, Blackburn High School came within the top 10 % of schools both globally and within Victoria!

Here is a complete list of awards won by our students:

Hollows	Bronze – Joshua M Credit – Koby L Credit – Jordan L-D Credit – Parsa R
Melba	Bronze – Siraj G Credit – Bridget L
Dunlop	Gold – Jane N Silver – Abir M Silver – Charlotte A Silver – Zachary S Silver – Nikki K Bronze – Jeremy B Bronze – Sebastien A Credit – Emily L Credit – Sukadara (Max) P
Freeman	Silver – Simranjit K Bronze – Hans Y Bronze – Zac R Credit – Kaustubh B Credit – Sophie T

Congratulations to all students who participated! Keep up the great work!

Hour of Coding in French!

On Friday 10 March, Blackburn High School welcomed Bertrand Thomachot from Two Moos, who undertook a French lesson with the Year 12s and Year 10s, teaching the students how to code.

The students created a bilingual French and English dictionary using the Python coding language. Students were really engaged in learning how to do something new while immersing themselves in the target language! A big thank you to Thomas and to Ms. Love/ Ms. Ivkov for suggesting the link between French and STEM!

We will be sure to have him back!

German Year 9 Plum Cake Activity

Year 9 German students combined their language skills with some hands-on baking in German class to make a type of traditional Zwetschgen Kuchen. Students were presented with a recipe for a German plum cake and the required ingredients. Each student actively contributed to the preparation and baking process. Whilst the cake was baking in the oven students had a closer look at the sentence structures involved with the method of the cake.

7HB rocking out to Alain le Lait on a Brain Break in Mme Pochinco's class

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