Thursday, October 10, 2019

St Joseph's RC School

To mark European Day of Languages at St Joseph's RC School, we gave it an 'International' approach to include everyone in our multicultural school community.

We had a survey carried out to find out how many languages are spoken by our pupils and their families. We did this the week before European Day of Languages and we found out there are 46 languages spoken in our school community! We are going to use this information to make up a display in the shape of a tree and the leaves will be filled with the word 'Hello' in all those languages. We can't wait to see it finished.


On the Thursday 26th, pupils and staff wore a sticky label on saying 'I can speak...' and had to write the language/s they could speak. Then they could have fun by learning how to greet someone else in their language, or find out if there was anyone else around the school or playground who spoke the same language. It was great fun and there were lots of conversations going on among pupils and staff about languages.

Also, we had some parents coming into their children's classes to share in a bit about their language and or culture with the class.

It was a great experience for everyone and we had very positive feedback from everybody.

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