Languages Faculty News

2025 Languages & Cultures Week Education Perfect Challenge

The St Monica’s College 2025 Languages & Cultures Week Education Perfect Challenge was another exciting event which was held during Languages & Cultures Week. Over 400 students from Years 7-12 took part in this event and participating students answered 206,861 questions, scored 81,631 points and were engaged in learning for a collective total of 353 hours.

The following students are to be congratulated for their outstanding performances in this competition:

Top scorers in each language:

French

First Place: April Keovong (Year 8)

Second Place: Hannah Matthew (Year 8)

Third Place: Tran Nguyen (Year 8)

Greek

First Place: Elaina Giannis (Year 8)

Second Place: Constance Papahronis (Year 11)

Third Place: Panagiotis Vlahoulis (Year 7)

Italian

First Place: April Keovong  (Year 8)

Second Place: Joshua Madio (Year 8)

Third Place: Sreesanvi Inturi (Year 7)

Japanese

First Place: Dion Bernardo (Year 7)

Second Place: Rasik Rimal (Year 7)

Third Place: Japmeet Sidhu (Year 7)

Spanish

First Place: April Keovong (Year 8)

Second Place: Joshua Madio (Year 8)

Third Place: Danijela Zalac (Year 8)

Certificate Recipients:

Gold Certificate (More than 5000 points scored)

April Keovong (Year 8) – Highest scorer in the competition with 11,897 points

Dion Bernardo (Year 7) – Second highest scorer in the competition with 5,335 points

Rasik Rimal (Year 7) – Third highest scorer in the competition with 5,301 points

Joshua Madio (Year 8)

Silver Certificate (More than 3000 points scored)

Tran Nguyen (Year 8)

Japmeet Sidhu (Year 7)

Elaina Giannis (Year 8)

Hasti Patel (Year 8)

Bronze Certificate (More than 1500 points scored)

Hannah Matthew (Year 8)

Sreesanvi Inturi (Year 7)

Jaydon George (Year 8)

Danijela Zalac (Year 8)

Nimrat Kaur (Year 11)

Japleen Kaur (Year 8)

Biar Angok (Year 7)

Honourable Mention (More than 1000 points scored)

Anisha Venkatesh (Year 9)

Anna Tu (Year 7)

Aashi Mody (Year 7)

2025 Education Perfect Victorian Languages Championship

A Victorian Education Perfect competition was recently held, which included the participation of many of our students. St Monica’s College performed impressively in this event with the College finishing 5th out of a total of 288 participating schools. Other highlights for the College in this competition were:

Spanish: 1st out of 87 schools

Greek: 1st out of 45 schools

Japanese: 2nd out of 143 schools

Italian: 3rd out of 137 schools

French: 13th out of 171 schools

We congratulate our students for their enthusiastic participation in this event.

Mr C Zuccala

Faculty Leader of Languages