European Day of Languages at St Andrew's

We, at St. Andrew’s celebrated the European Day of Languages on Wednesday, 28^th September.


All classes were involved in this event from writing the date in a language other than Spanish, being greeted in a different language to a cross-curricular lesson that was related to Europe. One of the lessons was a game, based on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire". It reinforced some important facts related to Europe.
Every S1 pupil had a homework task to write a story about the linguabat. Those less able to write at length drew a bat poster and add words and some sentences in a variety of languages.
Staff throughout the school participated in their own departments in a variety of ways and in several languages.


The main event was a huge buffet, made by the Higher Spanish class, containing foods from lots of European countries. A big display that included posters, flags, pictures, regalia etc and some S5/6 pupils dressed in national costume (or at least parts of some outfits) and they all looked great!


We played music from selected countries and some pupils sang along.
A quiz PowerPoint that one of the pupils had made up was displayed on the TV screens while staff and pupils tasted some of the food on offer in the crush hall.


We had a really good time.

ST MARGARET ACADEMY

We have had a great week this week. Each day we have celebrated a different European language.

We started each day by the prayer which was said in the language covered that day. (French, Spanish, Italian, German and Dutch).

Everyday, pupils have been doing various activities such as watching a French movie (les Choristes), going for a Tapas Trip, discussing an Italian breakfast, learning new facts about Germany and learning fun facts about Holland.

Moreover, pupils had the choice in the canteen with some dishes from the country where the language is spoken.

French dishes:

Vichyssoise (leek and potato soup)

Poulet Grand-mère Casserole (chicken and mushroom casserole)

Spanish dishes:
Ternera con tomate (beef and tomato soup)

Tarta de Manzana (apple tart on puff pastry coated in apricot jam)

Italian dishes

Minestrone soup (Tomato and pasta soup)

Mince Beef Lasagne

German dishes
Sauerbraton (brown marinated Beef)

Kasekuchen (Cheese cake)

It has been a huge success- and we as a department have been dressing up everyday wearing clothes typical of their country.

Hope that other schools across the country have had as much fun as us.




 

Mairi Godley

Modern Languages Teacher

TARBERT ACADEMY

On Monday, 26^th September P3/4 pupils in Tarbert Academy turned teacher for the day and offered their parents, grannies, grandads aunties, uncles and friends FREE language lessons in French, German or Spanish. 

The pupils worked very hard for two weeks prior to the event learning the core language,  practising their accents, creating resources such as playing cards and even made worksheets that they used to check the learning had happened.  They wrote lesson plans and made their own stickers with which to reward their pupils when they did a good job. 

The session started with an action song which the whole class taught to all “pupils” and then moved on to individual lessons.  “Classes” were between 1 – 4 pupils. 

“Pupils” were invited to stay for lunch and enjoyed Soupe à l’oignon, Paella and Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte.  P7/6 helped with the ambience in the dining centre with beautifully designed and executed menus adorning the tables.


Liz Scott
Class Teacher P3/P4