World Language Celebration Week
Last week saw our World Language Celebrations across the school with a variety of events for students and families to take part in. Each year group in secondary had an assembly about the reasons why and how we learn languages and how they can be useful in different parts of our lives. This included one student volunteering to do a role-play in Greek during the assembly with Ms Crebbin playing the part of a café customer and Emilia being the café server. What an amazing thing to volunteer to do! Students in both primary and secondary had the opportunity to answer the register in a new language just to try it out and there were activities in some lessons in different languages too. So instead of ‘Bonjour Madame, yes miss, present sir’ we were treated to ‘Ahój, Sveiki, Jó Napot and Jambo to name but a few. On the Thursday evening Primary and Secondary families were invited to our evening event where they collected ‘passport stamps’ for the different languages they tried out. Photo 1 shows Nicola K who delivered Polish lessons with Miss Oxley who was a really supportive attendee collecting many stamps (see photo 6 too). In photo 2 Mrs Melendez-Ruiz has decorated a cookie with the Mexican flag. She also demonstrated Pinata making and ran the ‘Photo booth’(see photo 10). Photo 3 shows a cross-curricular science and language activity and thanks must go to Mrs Comins, Ms Haylett and Mr Lodge (who ran Thai lessons) for helping out. In photos 4 and 9 you can see the cookies decorated by our students to represent a language, a culture or a country. Of course Mr Lean couldn’t resist lowering the tone in the photo booth task (photo 5) with his beloved ‘Bonnet de Douche’! We still enjoyed having him visit the event though.
We wanted to emphasise not just the work that goes on here at CFS in our lessons for French and Spanish but also to celebrate the students we have been taking GCSEs in other languages (Portuguese, Greek, Mandarin…) and the diversity of languages spoken by staff and students. Language is all around us and part of almost everything we do so let’s make the most of it.
Many thanks for your support everyone,
Ms Crebbin, Head of MFL
