Celebrated on 26 September every year, the European Day of Languages (EDL) is designed to promote the importance of language learning and protecting the linguistic heritage.
Here’s how schools have been celebrating in their classrooms:
To celebrate European Day of Languages today, Year 7 ran a pop-up photo booth where anyone could pop by and take part in the photo booth! ✨🗺️#europeandayoflanguages #suttonhighschool #sutton #year7 pic.twitter.com/J2vkyNMC6T
— Sutton High School GDST (@SuttonHighGirls) September 26, 2023
Bravo ! To our Language Ambassadors who ran a quiz for our cluster primaries to celebrate European Day of languages 👏👏👏🇪🇺@GHSfalkirk pic.twitter.com/ZGNZHeUGBu
— Modern Languages (@GHS_ModLangs) September 26, 2023
As part of European Day of Languages we celebrated the culture of students in the classroom by asking them to write the date on the board in their native language. It created lots of curiosity of dates from previous classes as well as conversation about different cultures! pic.twitter.com/NNbHcHkQ2a
— Mrs Coupland (@MrsCoupsMFL) September 26, 2023
🌎 It’s European Day of Languages today! Miss Leese is leading our assembly. Did you know, the first European Day of Languages was held in 2001? We are thinking about why it is important for us to learn languages. Diversity is one of our curriculum drivers. 🌎 @AletheiaAT pic.twitter.com/2puNJyGhqI
— Halling Primary School (@HallingSch) September 26, 2023
Years 5 & 6 enjoying our European Day of Languages photo booth as part of our celebrations today! 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇪🇸 🇮🇹#EuropeanDayofLanguages #prepschool #pickyourpath pic.twitter.com/ip9NLE8iEY
— Thorngrove School (@ThorngrovePrep) September 26, 2023
🇫🇷 Our European Day of Languages is in full swing… 🇫🇷 #astleyisace #welovefrench #enrich #opportunities #aps #communication #acefocusday 💫🙌🤩🇫🇷
— Astley Primary School (@Astley_Primary) September 26, 2023
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Our fabulous MFL department will be announcing the winners of the Languages in our School poster competition and we had nearly 30 fantastic entries into the European Day of Languages Bake Off, plus we've got some special activities lined up in EuroClub! pic.twitter.com/4tll2rkXbb
— Archbishop Temple Church of England High School (@ArchbishopTemp) September 26, 2023
We are marking European Day of Languages here in the Junior School @stgeorgesedin by wearing colours of the flags we identify with or cultural dress. We are having lots of fun learning about different countries and languages. #AVoiceforAmbition #Edlangs pic.twitter.com/qSKnjwpKSA
— St George's JS (@stgejs) September 26, 2023
Pre-prep are enjoying the European Day of Languages👍
— The Shrubbery School Pre-Prep (@Shrubb_Nursery) September 26, 2023
Germany 🥨🥨🥨🥨 pic.twitter.com/cDq6JScOUm
4C has enjoyed learning Greek numbers and greetings this morning as part of the European Day of Languages. #AshdeneMFL #EuropeanDayofLanguages pic.twitter.com/Xzb624vJXx
— Ashdene Primary School (@AshdenePrimary) September 26, 2023
Practicing counting to 10 in Greek for European Day of Languages! #EDoL #greek pic.twitter.com/qROLJu6eS9
— Ashdene Primary School (@AshdenePrimary) September 26, 2023
Wonderful to see @ReptonSchool pupils leading a series of language sessions as part of @StWystans European Day of languages. A fantastic variety from Japanese, Spanish & Romanian to Czech & Italian. The pupils designed & led their sessions superbly. A very special day indeed! pic.twitter.com/LSmTyBJsJi
— Repton School Life (@ReptonLife) September 26, 2023
Our European Day of Languages bake off entries are amazing! Well done to everyone who took part, Miss Tessier and Mrs Cullen had a very hard job choosing a winner 🏆 #EuropeanDayofLanguages pic.twitter.com/jhsvN32PDa
— Sexey's School (@SexeysSchool) September 26, 2023
To celebrate European Day of Languages, the pupils in Reception have been learning a French nursery rhyme. pic.twitter.com/I8clMcHy9r
— St. Patrick's Catholic School (@StPatsLM) September 26, 2023
For European Day of Languages, pupils College-wide have celebrated languages and explored how useful it can be to speak more than one. As part of the celebrations, Prep School pupils were visited by Senior School Modern Foreign Languages teachers who led an assembly, and Seni ... pic.twitter.com/ZmbTF5CEQf
— Ashville College (@AshvilleCollege) September 26, 2023
We are celebrating European Day of Languages. 🐝
— Fettes Prep School (@FettesPrep) September 26, 2023
M Form were having lots of fun in their French lesson today! 🇫🇷👏🌟👏 pic.twitter.com/v5Irto5yWd
🌍What a fantastic day KS2 classes had celebrating European Day of Languages. We thought about the different skills language learning provides us with and we had the opportunity to learn some French 🇫🇷 and Spanish 🇪🇸 through questions, songs, quizzes and crafts. 🌍 pic.twitter.com/jPoyUzKUsp
— Dunclug Primary School (@DunclugPS) September 26, 2023
European Day of Languages 🏴🇮🇹🇬🇷🇫🇷
— St Michael's Prep (@StMichaels_Prep) September 26, 2023
We’ve had a brilliant day celebrating languages in the Prep school. Beginning with an interactive assembly led by 6P, the children spent the day dressed in accessories and enjoying a delicious lunch featuring cuisines from a range of cultures. pic.twitter.com/9klNLqKkro
Its European Day Of Languages today and what better day could there be for Princethorpe’s Year 10 Language Leaders and their teachers to visit Foundation Prep School, Crackley Hall School, to deliver interactive language sessions to Junior 3 pupils. pic.twitter.com/ajfRJlY3dD
— Princethorpe College (@PrincethorpeCol) September 26, 2023
Happy European Day of Languages!
— The Abbey School (@theabbeyschool) September 26, 2023
Here at The Abbey, we love celebrating the different languages spoken in our school. How many languages can you speak?#AbbeyCelebration #EuropeanDayOfLangauges pic.twitter.com/npv1JUDmI2
