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 Gonçalves Keller (East Providence, Department Chairperson), Michaela McCaughey (Pawtucket) and Elisabete Teixeira (Warren).

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.”

Student winners from our area were:

Daniella Olivares (eighth grade, Seekonk) won a Gold Medal. Daniella also won First Place in the state of Rhode Island in her testing category (Level 1-Bilingual.)

The National Spanish Exam award winners are:

Spanish Exam Gold Medal
Daniella Olivares, grade 8 (Seekonk, MA)

Spanish Exam Silver Medals

Gabriella Moreira, grade 8 (Rehoboth, MA)

Spanish Exam Bronze Medals

CyAnne Mitchell, grade 11 (East Providence)
Olivia Murray, grade 8 (East Providence)
Maria Scavassin, grade 11 (East 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)

Perissa Sousa, grade 9 (East Providence)
Kailey Williams, grade 10 (East Providence)

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 from our area are:

French Exam Bronze Medals

Zheyu (Ruby) Jin, grade 12 (East Providence)

The National Portuguese exam results included four honorable mentions on the national level for Bay View students. from our area they are:

Amanda Bettencourt, grade 10 (East Providence)
Clara Cruz, grade 9 (East Providence)