St Anne's Primary School

We celebrated The European Day of Languages by having a Modern Languages Week in St. Anne's Primary, Erskine.

The Primary 7 children worked with the infants teaching them French games they created. The Primary 6's provides a "taste of Europe" for Primary 2. The children had great fun participating!

Bannockburn High School

Bannockburn High School celebrated the European Day of Languages with a lunchtime café. Pupils and staff could drop in to our café and sample foods from Spain, France and Germany. We had prompt cards to encourage all customers to communicate and order in the target language.

We also had typical café music playing in the background and decided to dress for the occasion although somewhat stereotypically!

It was fun and enjoyed by many. We would definitely hold a similar event again in the future.

St Mungo's High School

Throughout the week, St Mungo’s in Falkirk celebrated EDL by having Form classes compete to create their own country, language, flag and also create the main rules which govern their form class country. This was displayed on posters and the winning class won a Pizza lunch.

Within the Modern Languages department, there were classes in Portuguese, German, Urdu and Italian. There was also carousel workshops organised for S1 which included Chinese calligraphy, crepe making, the construction of Eiffel Towers using marshmallows and spaghetti and we also managed to squeeze in some Bollywood Dancing.

A fantastic, action packed week enjoyed by all!

St Margaret's Primary School

St Margaret’s Primary School in Polmont celebrated the European Day of Languages by having food tastings for every class in school, using funds kindly donated by our Parent-Teacher Association.

The P7 children held a Language Learning Event where parents came in and tried out games and activities which we use for learning French and Spanish.  Parents and children also tasted French and Spanish food.

In the afternoon we held a whole school assembly where every class either sang a song in French or Spanish or demonstrated a game or activity which could be used in class.

Kelso High School

At Kelso High School we celebrated the European Day of Languages on 22nd September this year. Posters were all around the school and stickers were shared out across different subject faculties. Staff were very willing to greet their classes in a foreign language of their choice as well as take the register and say goodbye to them.

In modern languages classes we encouraged pupils who have knowledge of any other languages to teach their peers - and their teacher -  some of this language. We are also doing Facts about France quiz and a General Knowledge awareness about languages quiz. The prizes of stickers, and wrist bands were in great demand!

Bonne journée; schönen Tag!

One month to go!

One month to go until the European Day of Languages 2015 and our EDL packs are in high demand!

We can't wait to see how schools use these fab resources to celebrate. Send us a short blurb with some colourful pictures and we will feature you in this blog!