Published on: 19 July 2013



Christ Church won the National da Vinci Decathlon (Years 7 and 8 division) held at Knox Grammar School in Sydney late last term. It follows the School’s win in the Western Australian da Vinci Decathlon in May.

A team of Year 8 students won the three-day academic competition, which is run in the spirit of an Olympic decathlon. Each team combines its collective talents to work together in 10 varied disciplines.

The successful team, including Hiruna Diyasena, Edward Galluccio, Alex Lindsay, Daniel Robbins, Benjamin Seymour, Gary Song, Keaton Wright and Kohsuke Sato, placed in seven of out of the 10 disciplines including first in Science, Cartography and General Knowledge and second in English, Mathematics/Chess, Code Breaking and Creative Producers.

Assistant Director of Studies Matthew Kameron said it was an incredibly intense competition between the top three schools. “Christ Church, James Ruse Agricultural High School (NSW) and St Peter’s College (SA) fought for the top three positions in almost every category,” he said.

Mr Kameron said the organising committee praised the Christ Church team on its behavior, helpfulness and on working together as a team.

While the team will not be competing at the new international competition to be held in Italy later this year, it may represent Australia at the 2014 international decathlon in Sydney or the 2015 decathlon in Milan.