Oak Hill Academy eighth graders recently took the Grand Concours, the French National Contest. The competition was fierce since over 100,000 students entered the contest on the national level including 19, 000 from our local region. Harry Jain (Red Bank) and Luke DeCresce (Holmdel) earned 1st place in NJ and 4th place Nationally. Andy Thermos (Farmingdale) recorded a 4th place NJ and 7th place National while Matthew Jaworski (Middletown) was 9th in NJ and 12th place Nationally. Finally, Seth Britton (Lincroft) pulled in NJ’s 10th place finish and 13th place in the Nation. The National Contest consists of an auditory part, a grammar section, a written comprehension section (dialogs & text) as well as some culture. The contest is a sixty minute national test that is designed, written, financed and disseminated by the members of the American Association of Teachers of French. Its purpose is to help stimulate further interest in the teaching and learning of French and to help identify and reward achievement on the part of both students and teachers.
Félicitations to Madame Simon, Oak Hill Academy’s 8th Grade French Teacher, and her incredible students!
