Stephanie’s skills in English win a high distinction

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Stephanie’s skills in English win a high distinction

LITERACY SKILLS: A man lost in rugged country won a high distinction for Stephanie Fehon.

By Chris Lindsay

Stephanie Fehon, a Year 6 student at Santa Sabina College, Strathfield, has been awarded a high distinction in the Australasian Schools English Competition – the only student at her school to receive the highest mark.

The competition is designed to test a range of literacy skills.

It requires students to read both literary passages and factual texts in order to answer a variety of comprehension, language, vocabulary, punctuation and spelling questions.

This year the competition attracted more than 425,000 students from across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region.

“We were asked to read some information in point form on a US man who was lost in rugged country in Victoria and survived on rainwater, and then write an article on it,” Stephanie, aged 11, said.

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