THIRTEEN students from Queen Elizabeth’s School in Crediton took part in a language speaking competition recently.

The students ranged from Year 7 up to Year 13, some reading poetry and some performing their own compositions in French and Spanish in front of a large audience of other students and a panel of expert judges.

On the judging panel were Cllr Frank Letch, Mayor of Crediton and Peter Brewer both of whom are brilliant linguists.

The standard was very high and there were notable performances from Edward Kasprzak and Joseph McCloughlin with their joint talk on sandwiches, and from Cameron Fahy for his tale of an imaginary family.

Mr Letch chose Thomas Gregory as the winner in Spanish and Mr Brewer chose Maya Vaughn and Polly Jackson for their French-spoken tale of daily life in Crediton.

Mr Letch has even invited the girls to record their sketch for the Town Council’s “YouTube” channel.

Mr Addy, organiser and Head of Modern Foreign Languages at QE, was really pleased with the professionalism of all contestants who really rose to the challenge - well done to all!