Languages Week

Last week was BGS Languages Week, where we celebrated not only the BGS Languages, Chinese, French, Latin and Japanese, but all of the languages that our community speak

Students participated in a photo booth activity where languages students and teachers had fun dressing up in different culture dress and learning about other cultures. Students also had the opportunity to experience Japanese kendo with Mr Nagayama.

Throughout the week language students participated in cooking classes in the BHIVE, building knowledge and a love for the culture of the language they are studying.

Then in pastoral time, students participated in a Language Week Quiz. Students had to listen to a number of teachers saying the phrase ‘studying languages expands my horizon’ in a language other than English and then correctly guess the teacher speaking and the language they were speaking in.

It was fun to listen to a range of different languages like Albanian, Swedish, Spanish and Welsh from a range of staff including staff who have grown up speaking this language and staff who have studied this language.  

We want to celebrate languages and that all language learning to any competency is valuable because all language contributes to our identity, our understanding of culture and our communicative abilities.

Thanks to everyone who participated in BGS Languages Week.

Melissa Faulkner
Head of Languages Faculty