{"id":660297,"date":"2026-05-10T14:07:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/660297\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T14:07:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:07:01","slug":"three-surrey-white-rock-students-win-medals-at-provincial-french-speaking-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/660297\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Surrey & White Rock students win medals at provincial French-speaking competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

May 8, 2026 <\/p>\n

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A trio of students showed off their skills en fran\u00e7ais this past weekend, bringing home medals from this year’s B.C. and Yukon Concours d\u2019art oratoire<\/a>, a provincial French-speaking competition.<\/p>\n

\u00c9cole Peace Arch Elementary student Nicolas Doan Tran placed third in the Francophone 6 category while \u00c9cole Earl Marriott Secondary\u2019s Wenshu Ding and \u00c9cole Kwantlen Park Secondary\u2019s Mehtab Sidhu finished second and third, respectively, in the Core French 11\/12 category.<\/p>\n

Hosted by Canadian Parents for French<\/a> (CPF), the 43rd annual competition took place May 2 at Simon Fraser University\u2019s Surrey campus and saw students from across B.C. and the Yukon participate. The Concours d\u2019art oratoire was created to encourage and support bilingualism in Canada while providing French-speaking students with an event and a community of active French language learners. The competition also aims to demonstrate the relevance of French language instruction in the real world.<\/p>\n

Surrey Schools has an extensive history of Concours winners:<\/p>\n

2025 \u2013 Concours d\u2019art oratoire (provincial): Arabella Reece Carpio, Clary Chow, Landon Chrismas, Mireia Cuenca, Hana Diaz, Shareena Kaushal, Rafa Ramadan, Emily Shi<\/a>2024 \u2013 Concours d\u2019art oratoire (national):\u00a0Dhruv Mehta<\/a>2024 \u2013 Concours d\u2019art oratoire (provincial):\u00a0Mireia Cuenca, Aashita Goyal, Dhruv Mehta, Jathu Nanthakumar, Chaarvi Sivansankar<\/a>2023 \u2013 Concours d\u2019art oratoire (national):\u00a0Dhruv Mehta<\/a>2023 \u2013 Concours d\u2019art oratoire (provincial):\u00a0Mireia Cuenca and Dhruv Mehta<\/a>2021 \u2013 Concours Virtuel (national):\u00a0Mireia Cuenca and Simone Sinai<\/a>2020 \u2013 Concours Virtuel (national): Luka Roberts<\/a>2019 \u2013 Concours d\u2019art oratoire (provincial): Kaitlyn Lu and Ben Tyler<\/a>2018 \u2013 Concours d\u2019art oratoire (provincial): Olivia Podhajska, Paige Metcalf, Ben Tyler and Coralie Tcheune<\/a>2017 \u2013 Concours d\u2019art oratoire (national):\u00a0Coralie Tcheune<\/a>2015 \u2013 Concours d\u2019art oratoire (provincial): Julia Albert and Kyle Boutilier<\/a>2014 \u2013 Concours d\u2019art oratoire (provincial): Julia Albert, Haley Biggin, Jazlyn Melnychuk, Shailee Shah and Coralie Tcheune<\/a><\/p>\n

Prizes for this year’s provincial competition range from $50 to $300, based on grade level and placement in the top three of categories.<\/p>\n

To learn more about the CPF and the Concours d\u2019art oratoire, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 8, 2026 A trio of students showed off their skills en fran\u00e7ais this past weekend, bringing home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-660297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}