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Smashing scores for Vocab Express competitors

Friday 7 October 2016

Tuesday 4 October rounded off the annual Vocab Express competition, a week-long championship in which students from all over the globe battle one another for the top scores in a range of languages including Arabic, Mandarin and Portuguese.

The highest scoring participant at The Grammar School at Leeds (GSAL) was Emily Ball, Lower Sixth (L6), who finished in third place worldwide with a fantastic 102,010 points. As a French A-level student, Emily competed in a variety of French units along with her previous GCSE subject, Latin, to achieve her score.

Isabella Green, L6, finished second in Latin globally and sixth overall with 91,545 points, contributing to GSAL’s success as the second highest scoring school for Latin.

The competition coincided with GSAL’s celebration of European Day of Languages, which students marked in energetic style with their own Euro 2016 football tournament, a Ritmo Latino workout session and multilingual karaoke. There were also language themed house assemblies and quizzes for different year groups throughout the day.

Visit our Facebook page for photos from the day.

By Ilana Pearce L6

Photo: (L-R) Isabella and Emily check out their positions on the Latin leader board

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