BAY VIEW ACADEMY STUDENTS EARN ACCOLADES ON WORLD LANGUAGE EXAMS
East Providence, RI ???????Bay View Academy World Language students recently received local and national recognition for their success in exams and competitions in Spanish, Portuguese and French. Bay View???s World Languages department includes seven teachers: Rachel Barrer (East Providence), Kathleen DePasquale (Greenville), Graziella Giampaoli (Providence), Sister Sheila Harrington (East Providence),Vera Gon??alves Keller (East Providence, Department Chairperson), Michaela McCaughey (Pawtucket) and Elisabete Teixeira (Warren).
Gold, Silver and Bronze Award Winners
Back Row Left to Right:Maria Scavassin (East Providence) Sokhna-Binta Gueye (North Providence) Olivia Murray (East Providence) Emilie Lum (Cranston) Rebekah Pendrak (North Providence) Amelia Larson (Cumberland)
Middle Row Left to Right: Elizabeth Morris (Bristol)????Nicole Baalbaki (Pawtucket) Barbaglia (Bristol) Jessica McDonald (Tiverton)????Cassandra Gendron (Cranston)
Front Row Left to Right: Daniella Olivares (Seekonk, MA) Gabriella Moreira (Rehoboth, MA) Marisa Lee (Providence) Olesya Tamburro (Cumberland) Isabella Lanna (East Greenwich) Giovanna Sgalia (Hopedale, MA)
Bay View students in Middle and Upper School earned two gold, nine silver, seven bronze and 34 honorable mentions in the National Spanish Examinations.??The?? National Spanish Examinations are administered each year in grades 6 through 12, and are sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.
???Attaining a medal or honorable mention for any student on the National Spanish Examinations is very prestigious,??? said Kevin Cessna-Buscemi, National Director of the Exams, ???because the exams are the largest of their kind in the United States with over 160,000 students participating in 2016.???
Daniella Olivares
Both Daniella Olivares (eighth grade, Seekonk) and Isabella Lanna (tenth grade, East Greenwich) won Gold Medals. Daniella also won First Place in the state of Rhode Island in her testing category (Level 1-Bilingual.)
Isabella Lanna
The National Spanish Exam award winners are:
Spanish
Exam Gold Medal
Daniella Olivares, grade 8 (Seekonk, MA)
Isabella Lanna, grade 10 (East Greenwich)
Spanish
Exam Silver Medals
Gabriella Moreira, grade 8 (Rehoboth, MA)
Silvia Barbaglia, grade 11 (Bristol)
Elizabeth Morris, grade 8 (Bristol)
Amelia Larson, grade 11 (Cumberland)
Emilie Lum, grade 8 (Cranston)
Sokhna Binta-Gueye, grade 8 (North Providence)
Rebekah Pendrak, grade 10 (North Providence)
Nicole Baalbaki, grade 8 (Pawtucket)
Sara Akhtar, grade 8 (Providence)
Spanish
Exam Bronze Medals
Giovanna Sgalia, grade 9 ??(Hopedale, MA)
Olesya Tamburro, grade 9 (Cumberland)
CyAnne Mitchell, grade 11 (East Providence)
Olivia Murray, grade ??8 (East Providence)
Maria Scavassin, grade 11 (East Providence)
Sophia Brooks-Randall, grade 11 (Providence)
Marisa Lee, grade ??8 (Providence)
Spanish
Exam Honorable Mention
Courtney Anderson, grade 9 (Rehoboth, MA)
Lily Gucfa, grade 9 (Rehoboth, MA) ??????????????
Hannah Nadeau, grade 9 (Rehoboth, MA)
Melina Cabral, grade 8 (Seekonk, MA)
Abigail Swift, grade 8 (Westport, MA)
Caitlin Cummings, grade 8 (Barrington)
Zoey Andrade, grade 8 (Bristol)
Madelynne Dunlop, grade 9 (Bristol)
Derby Mack, grade 11 (Bristol)
Alana McGuiness, grade 10 (Bristol)
Isabella DiSalvo, grade 8 (Chepatchet)
Isabelle Stevens, grade 10 (Coventry)
Erin Dillon, grade 10 (Cranston)
Abigail Kuzman, grade 9 (Cranston)
Shailia Pe??a, grade 9 (Cranston)
Shaylene Pe??a, grade 10 (Cranston)
Sydney Ellis, grade 10 (East Greenwich)
Olivia Granatiero, grade 9 (East Greenwich)
Natalie Noland, grade 10 (East Greenwich)
Perissa Sousa, grade 9 (East Providence)
Kailey Williams, grade 10 (East Providence)
Mait?? Cez??rio, grade 11 (Pawtucket)
Neomy Delacruz, grade 10 (Providence)
Noelya Delacruz, grade 10 (Providence)
Grace Farrow, grade 9 (Providence)
Madelyn Perez, grade 9 (Providence)
Anna Bianchi, grade 10 (North Kingstown)
Blaine Lynch-Gadaleta, grade 10 (North Providence)
Elizabeth Lynch-Gadaleta, grade 10 (North Providence)
Elizabeth Ng, grade 8 (North Scituate)
Mackenzie Grenier, grade 11 (Warwick)
Dana Hackett, grade 12 (Warwick)
Lynandrea Mej??a, grade 12 (Warwick)
Jamie Tebeau, grade 12 (West Warwick)
Bay View Academy students who study French also earned national recognition for their results on the 2016 Le Grand Concours, the National French Contest of the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF). These students earned one silver, two bronze and three honorable mention. The award winners are:
French
Exam Silver Medal
Jessica McDonald, grade 11 (Tiverton)
French Exam Bronze Medals
Zheyu (Ruby) Jin, grade 12 (East Providence)
Cassandra Gendron, ??grade 11 (Cranston)
French
Exam Honorable Mention
Elena Botsford, grade 10 (East Greenwich)
Palmer Berry, grade 10 (Warwick)
Sophia Javid, grade 9 (Coventry)
The National Portuguese exam results included four honorable mentions on the national level for Bay View
students. They are:
Amanda Bettencourt, grade 10 (East Providence)
Clara Cruz, grade 9 (East Providence)
Olivia Abreu, grade 11 (Bristol)
Gabriella DeFaria, grade 10 (Pawtucket)
St. Mary Academy-Bay View is an independent Catholic School for girls open to all faiths, Pre-kindergarten through Grade 12, located in East Providence, Rhode Island. In existence since 1874, Bay View endeavors to provide a quality education preparing girls and young women for the challenges of the global community. St. Mary Academy???Bay
View is a college preparatory school accredited by the New England Association
of Schools and Colleges.
Photo Credit: Lori DesVergnes
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