Hove Park wins first prize in national Mandarin Speaking competition
A Year 9 team from Hove Park School recently entered the annual Mandarin Speaking Competition organised by the British Council. This is a prestigious national competition, and this year over 200 students from some 70 schools competed. Illango Bogschutz, James Cox, Fintan Crean, Katie Galloway and George Stevens wrote, practiced and performed an original script in Mandarin, which was expertly filmed and edited by Dylan Barker.
The judges liked the creativity of the script, based on a news broadcast. The Hove Park School team was delighted to learn that, against intense competition, they had won first prize in their category. They will receive a £100 book voucher plus a digital workshop or tour for their Mandarin class.
Head of Languages, James Sandford said:
‘Winning this element of such a prestigious competition is a very public recognition of all the hard work that both the teachers and students put into the study of Mandarin at Hove Park School. We are very proud of all of our languages being taught this year in school and we continue to buck the national trend of disengagement in language learning. What I’d like everyone to recognise is that all these high standards have been maintained over not one, but two lockdowns! Amazing effort by everyone.’
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