UK Linguistics Olympiad Club compete in highest level challenge and achieve 3 Bronze Awards

Y12 students have worked hard to create a UK Linguistics Olympiad Club in which students from all years come together, discuss the beautiful variation of languages and work through some linguistic challenges - putting themselves in the place of those early explorers who discovered unknown texts, like Egyptian hieroglyphs, and worked out new meanings from context and a process of elimination.

This is what the United Kingdom Linguistics Olympiad exists to do: build intercultural understanding, allow for varied cultural exchange and challenge linguistic minds all across the UK in a competition to stretch logic, language-puzzles and pattern-recognition skills.

TGS is delighted to announce that 10 of our students entered the highest level challenge, which was externally set, marked and moderated, and three of those students got a Bronze award - recognising their efforts and successes in translating challenges from a number of lesser-known languages, ranging from Adinkra (Ghana) to Guna (Panama and Colombia) via Georgian, Kannada and Zou.

Please join us in congratulating Alice, Akshara, Antoinina, Cindy, Elena, Gracie, Harriet, Kiska, Safia and Tanuri on their efforts and excellent achievements.