LANGUAGES

French Exchange

This is the fourth biennial exchange with Lycée Darchicourt, and during formal speeches, the Proviseur (Principal), Mr Hersoy, indicated that he regarded our partnership as a valuable and vital part of his school’s educational program.  He hoped that we would be able to continue the program and return to the north of France again in 2018.

One of the Darchicourt students, Gabrielle, will be attending Lilydale High School in Semester 1, 2017, and Mr Hersoy has invited one of our students to attend Darchicourt in return.  If you are interested in this opportunity, please see Mrs Stoyanoff.

Gabrielle will be looking for a family or two who are willing to host her for a term or the semester. Please see Mrs Stoyanoff if you are interested.

Host Families

The Languages Department are still urgently seeking host families to accommodate students from Indonesia for two weeks, from Sunday July 17 to Saturday July 30.

Students from all levels are invited to apply to be host families and as the Indonesian students have a very good level of English, it is not limited to those who have been in the Indonesian classes at LHS.

The Indonesian students are very keen to experience Australian life with LHS families.

Please contact Mrs Stoyanoff on 97355644.

Language Perfect World Championship Results

Students of French and Indonesian competed for the 7th time in the Language Perfect World Championships. 

Thirty-eight students earned awards for accumulating more than 500 points during the 10 days of the Championship. Derek Villaceran (Year 8) achieved an Elite Award with 10,018 points.

The following three students will be awarded Gold Award having scored more than 3,000 points:

• Jessica Clark
• Georgia Laven
• Emma Smith

Five students earned Silver Awards and eight students will receive Bronze Awards.

Year Level Award winners are:

Year 9                                    Jessica Clark

Year 8 French                     Derek Villaceran

Year 7 French                     Emma Smith

Year 8 Indonesian            Georgia Laven

Year 7 Indonesian            Jake Daffy

The Indonesian students performed extremely well in the International Competition as they were 16th overall, out of 702 schools learning Indonesian vocabulary during the competition.  

The French students were 188th out of 966 schools attempting the French vocabulary lists.

Sharon Stoyanoff

Head of Languages