Churcher’s Student Wins Bronze in UK Linguistics Olympiad

16-year-old Oliver Fogelin, a student at Churcher’s College, has been awarded Bronze in the Advanced Test at the 2021 UK Linguistics Olympiad (UKLO) which puts him in the top 15% of competitors in the country. The Linguistics Olympiad is a competition for school students to solve linguistic data problems. UKLO enters at least one team each year in the International Linguistics Olympiad.

Dr Arianne Broomfield, Head of German at Churcher’s, explains: “The UKLO is a very challenging competition, and we are proud of Oliver achieving Bronze, in fact he narrowly missed Silver by only one point. To prepare for this challenging competition Oliver worked through practice problems of varying degrees of difficulty with perseverance which led to this brilliant result – congratulations to Oliver!”