Languages Discovery Day 2023

Journey across the world

On Tuesday 6th June, our Modern Foreign Language Faculty held the sixth Languages Discovery Day, which was delivered by 67 Year 10 Young MFL Leaders who shared their cultures, languages and linguistic interests with 120 Year 5 Boys and Girls from Oak View and St Philip Howard RC Primary Schools. The Key Stage 2 pupils had the opportunity to experience twenty-three different languages from all around the world including special workshops in British Sign Language, Semaphore, Greek dancing, Yoruba, Persian and Maori and many more from all round the world, reflecting and sharing our diverse heritages at the school. The day was divided in 162 workshops with 31 different language and cultural foci. By all accounts the day was a great success. Special praise is due to the Young Leaders for their infectious enthusiasm which gave the event such a buzz and celebrated the rich cultural and linguistic diversity of our school!

One of our Young MFL Leader, Sophie G, said:

The students from other schools and the young MFL leaders here at our school all came together to appreciate and learn about other cultures and languages. I really enjoyed teaching the children and seeing them so eager to learn, and I know that the other young MFL leaders enjoyed the day as well. I loved looking around at the different activities the other groups planned, there was so much diverse culture that even I learnt new languages and traditions within a culture myself. I feel that I highly benefitted from this course, learning many new skills and working on my patience skills as well as learning how to adapt when children needed more support. I believe I have grown from this fun, exciting and challenging day and I hope to get involved in more activities like this in the future.