European Day of Language

The whole school enjoyed celebrating European Day of Languages on Friday. The European Day of Languages (EDL) is celebrated across Europe on the 26th of September every year. It aims to promote the rich linguistic diversity of Europe and raise awareness of the importance of lifelong language learning for everyone. It was set up by the Council of Europe and was first celebrated in 2001. 

In mixed year groups we explored why it is important to learn a language and explored three counties, Bulgaria, Poland and Portugal. The children took part in a variety of creative activities to learn some languages and culture information. We started the day with an assembly learning about the history of European Day of Languages and ended celebrating what we had learnt. 
 

It was a wonderful opportunity for some of our EAL children to become ‘mini teachers’ and share with their peers their language and culture.