Breaking News - Competition Winners Announced

We are delighted to announce the winners in this year’s “Get to Know Your FLA” competition, run in conjunction with British Council Wales.

It was nice to see French, German and Spanish represented and entries from Key Stages 3 & 4 and AS/A Level students. As ever, the standard of entries was extremely high and the judges faced some difficult decisions.

The winners are:
Key Stage 3
1st prize: Amman Valley School’s Deutschklub for their all-singing PowerPoint
2nd prize: Glyn Derw High School’s year 7 for their interactive cartoon website (which you can view by clicking here)
3rd prize: Barry Comprehensive School’s year 8 French group for their PowerPoint which was packed with information.

Key Stage 4
1st prize: Bishop Vaughan Catholic Comprehensive School’s year 10, who created a pack of resources to use with key stage 3 pupils. The pack included a DVD, a PowerPoint presentation, an information poster, a wanted wall and various quizzes and activities
2nd prize: Ysgol Gyfun Dyffryn Taf’s year 10, who produced not only a DVD, but also an album of memories and information
Joint 3rd prize: St Julian’s Comprehensive, who produced a PowerPoint presentation in the form of an interactive quiz, making the judges work!
Joint 3rd prize: Amman Valley School’s year 11 pupils who produced a stunning DVD with a Mission Impossible-style investigation into their assistant

AS/A Level
1st prize: David Hendy from Crosskeys College produced a radio show and PowerPoint presentation about drugs
2nd prize: Jack Westerland from Barry Comprehensive, who sent us a PowerPoint packed with information about his assistant’s musical tastes and views and a recording of his interview
3rd prize: Hannah Crowney of Bishop Vaughan Catholic Comprehensive who sent us a transcript and recording of her interview about the environment

Prizes will be awarded in early March (date and venue to be announced). Meanwhile we would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to the winners and thanks to all who entered.