Waitākere College

We've had our best year EVER the International Education Perfect Languages Competition

Students participated in 15 languages and achieved AMAZING RESULTS both within New Zealand and internationally.

Our School competed against  2,825 schools and showed that Waitakere College has got what it takes!

Here are our results:

16th overall in NZ! (745 schools participating)

8th in NZ for our size of school

80th GLOBALLY - Can you believe it? We cracked the top 100!!!

1st Overall for Samoan

10th for French in NZ

2nd for Indonesian in NZ

4th for Arabic in NZ

3rd for Greek in NZ

3rd for Malay in NZ

7th for Chinese in NZ

12th for Italian in NZ

8th for Latin in NZ

Students answered 289,145 questions and spent 443 hours competing for us.

Our top awards:

The Elite Award and an amazing 44th in the world is Lohaina Tiapapa Soo

3 Emerald Awards go to Ameera Okso, Christina Visesio and Esha Ram

2 Gold Awards go to Elizabeth Siaki and Cheera Tan

3 Silver awards go to: Kevin Lim, Kashvi Kumar and Yaslyn Ngau

10 Bronze Awards go to: Thomas Morton, Saed Ahmed, Aditi Kumar, Adria Gawn, Kaylee Taylor, Maziah Nottingham, Jessica Kirby, Kalita Tautaiolevao.

34 students achieved credit awards.

Certificates and prizes will be presented to students next week.

We are SO SO proud of our student's achievements and we're looking forward to another extraordinary year in Languages!

Merci,

Dawn Jarbeau
HOD Languages