Cultural exchange
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Peace through Languages
This year here at Prestwick Academy we celebrated European Day of Languages with a bang – our International Club – the Captains and Junior Ambassadors helped a lot on the day. Inspirational quotes about the importance of languages were posted every day into school’s daily bulletin and face painting was done by International Captains during…
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EDoL: Celtic connections from Oaklea Grange
Today, at Oaklea Grange, we held a school assembly all about the European Day of Languages. We learnt all about the wide variety of languages across Europe, their heritage, and compared that to the languages in our own country. We spoke about promoting the learning of another language and pupils had a go at speaking…
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European Day of Languages
During the week of European Day of Languages Manchester Hospital School got the whole school from EYFS to post-16 involved in language learning through a mixture of assemblies, encouraging pupils to complete the British Council Great Languages Challenge and teaching pupils how to count to five in a range of European and non-European languages. Each…
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Clyst Vale Euros 2024
The event echoes the structure of the Euros 2024 Championships and allowed teams across all 3 school houses and all 4 lower years (7, 8, 9 & 10 – Y11 have finished) currently in school to be involved in an inclusive, respectful football competition. This event was organised by Mr Adam Pearce, a PE teacher…
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European Elections Library stand and treasure hunt
European Parliament Junior Ambassadors were inspired to have a go at doing a treasure hunt in celebration of the European Elections. We got the Library involved by having a stand with books relating to European History and democracy highlighted with an election themed treasure hunt around the school. We printed posters from this website https://fineacts.co/get-out…
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German Exchange
37 Wellington pupils and their German partners took part in a language and cultural exchange in November and March. In late November, the UK pupils travelled to Germany to spend a week with their German friend who came to Scotland in March. The programme involved five days of workshops learning together and having fun. Participants…
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Student-led Europe Day assembly
Pupils at Manchester Hospital School’s Galaxy House Tier 4 CAMHS unit used their European Parliament Ambassador Schools Preparation for Adulthood time to collaboratively design an assembly to be delivered to mark Europe Day. The assembly shared various aspects of culture from different EU countries and was rounded off with a quiz. It was delivered virtually…
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Europe Day Celebrations
Thursday 9th May was Europe day and we ambassadors of the NHEHS EPAS club were keen to celebrate the day with a range of activities and to top the week off with a ‘wear colours of a European flag’ day. Many students showed a lot of interest in the role that Europe has had in…
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Starter activities for each subject
For Europe day, Junior Ambassadors at Lytham St Anne’s High School, designed some starter tasks to use at the start of lessons to get the lessons started and going. These slides include fun activities with many different facts based on European culture. For the different subjects, the starter task corresponded with the subject such as…
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LUX Youth Seminar in Brussels
Junior Ambassadors from Wellington School in Ayr, Scotland, have just attended the LUX Audience Award ceremony with Junior Ambassadors from all 27 EU member states.
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Euroscola event: Rights of Women
We took part in a live event discussing the rights of Women across Europe. We were able to listen and speak to a variety of MEP’s and other schools within the EU. We asked the question, ‘Why is there such a large gender pay gap and what are the EP doing to address this?’ We…
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European Biscuit Decorating
Over the course of Spring 2, one team of Junior Ambassadors planned and delivered a biscuits decorating event, demonstrating teamwork, communication and leadership. They shopped for and made their own different coloured icing, researched European flags and then offered their peers the opportunity to decorate them with different European flags.
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Languages at Work Event – GCHQ and Business Language Champions
Twelve Year 10 Linguists who are learning French and German currently competed in the GCHQ challenge at the Royal School in Bath. They had the chance to see Languages at work as well as enjoy a taster of Arabic, Korean and Mandarin.
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Trip to World Food Buffet
Oaklea Grange organised a trip to a World Food Buffet to try food of different cultures. We tried Sushi, Indian food, Tapas, Pasta, Welsh Cakes, Chinese food, Pizza. We rated our favourite foods and our favourite was Italian. We liked the way different cultures eat such little bit of lots of things, eating with chopsticks.…
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European infopoint
Junior Ambassadors from Manchester Hospital School worked collaboratively to create the infopoint as part of our Preparation for Adulthood curriculum. They decided what they wanted to have on the infopoint, where it was going to be and then worked together to create the resources.
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International Mother Language Day
We, Oaklea Grange, held a whole school assembly on International Mother Language Day. We looked at languages that we are losing and how to preserve them. We spoke about all the interesting ways in which people can communicate and why it is important to preserve tradition and try and keep these language and variations alive.…
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Infopoint
European Parliament Ambassador Schools (EPAS) club students from Notting Hill and Ealing High School had to arrange to get a noticeboard as all noticeboards were occupied in the school. They negotiated with the SLT and subject departments to get a notice board freed up. Then they set about filling with information about the EU. It…
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Cultural Fair
Excellent learning for democratic engagement! Great for students to talk to serving politicians, find out what motivates them and ask questions about the issues that matter to the students. The Ambassador Schools club set up a stall to share information of the EU and talk to students. A few members of the club were also…