Highlights From European Day of Languages 2021
Now the dust has settled on this year’s festivities, we thought it would be a fabulous time to bring you a selection of highlights from how our schools celebrated European Day of Languages. This year, our theme revolved around Walk With Amal and her journey from Syria to Manchester. We have really loved seeing all that our network members have come up with, so here is a collection of the top highlights from the past couple of weeks.
Year 5 celebrated #europeandayoflanguages by learning to sing a sea shanty in French! A big thank you to @network_primary for a great song and to Fran @MedleyMusic1 for her musical expertise! pic.twitter.com/kbaYK2OSj4
— Our Lady's School (@ourladys_cps) September 27, 2021
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Every year, we include a song with our European Day of Languages resource pack; this year, our very own Joanne Eccleshare wrote a Sea Shanty (which was available in both French and Spanish). Here is one of our favourite performances from Our Lady’s RC Primary School, a French network member. We love how they brought the celebrations outside of the classroom here to make a real event of it!
Year 1 had a great #EuropeanDayofLanguages day. We learned words for colours in Spanish with Irene and we enjoyed food from all over Europe including Swedish brownies! #cbvalues #friendship pic.twitter.com/PaScQmCcvo
— Canon Burrows CE Primary School (@canon_burrows) September 24, 2021
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Our Associate Teacher (and native Spanish speaker) Irene had a fabulous time at network member Canon Burrows CE Primary School – we love the expansion of the celebrations into the canteen as well. Those Swedish brownies look delicious!
Year 5 spent time designing a footprint to welcome Amal in different languages. @walkwithamal #actsofwelcome for #LittleAmal. #EuropeanDayofLanguages #teamstphilips @StPhilipCEAP @network_primary pic.twitter.com/J7ayuKUUEk
— St Philips Year 5 - Miss Thwaites (@StPhilipsY5C) September 27, 2021
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Lovely work from Year 5 at St Philips CE Primary School. Our focus on Walk With Amal this year has been a real success, and shows us how primary languages teaching is not limited to the languages themselves! It is also about culture and a shared sense of humanity, which Little Amal embodies perfectly. Her journey from Syria to Manchester to represent that of the many refugees who have taken the same route serves as an inspiration and a reminder of why we teach languages, and it is really touching to see this make an impact in schools.
This week KS2 celebrated the European Day of Languages 2021 in their Spanish lessons… what fantastic work ⭐️🌍#EDL2021 #primarylanguagesnetwork #ringway @network_primary pic.twitter.com/7yrtO5xvaY
— Ringway Primary (@PrimaryRingway) September 30, 2021
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Students from network member Ringway Primary loved using the European Day of Languages resources from our VLE. Focusing on greetings is a great way to celebrate this event, particularly as it falls so early on in the school year. Great to see some more work from our Walk With Amal resources as well with the suitcase task.
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