European Day of Languages 2024

This year's celebration of languages was packed with various activities.

My Class 1 pupils sang the If you're happy song in Serbian to their eTwinning friends and learned a few basic words in their languages.

My Class 4 pupils received the Talk to me stickers, used the key to find out the languages, and tried to find the countries on the map. 

They also recorded video messages for their eTwinning friends.

Divided into 6 mixed teams of 3, my Class 5 pupils took part in fun quizzes about languages. Their task was to listen to 5 different people talking and guess the languages in a game called Look who's talking!, recognise fun facts in the general knowledge quiz, or choose a category and answer some trivia questions. A few volunteers said a few sentences in Romani, Spanish, German and Japanese and the others guessed the languages. We also sang a well-known song If you're happy in English. 

They also took part in the brainstorming activity with our eTwinning friends and shared their favourite L1 words.

As usual, the activity is part of the Council of Europe's Event Calendar.

Hello!

A lot of new faces, but an old introduction song, older than they are. My new generation of Class 1 pupils also enjoys singing it.

NQL 2024

Our eTwinning National Support Organisation has just awarded 239 international projects with Quality Labels. I'm happy and proud to say that the projects I collaborated on with my pupils have received the National Quality Labels:

• We Learn Together, We Grow Together: a very beautiful and inspiring example of how students can develop their skills and expand their horizons through different topics. By collaborating on creative tasks like a virtual dinner for underprivileged children, students improved their social skills, learned important lessons about empathy, tolerance and respect, and became more aware of the importance of cultural heritage. This project enabled students to build values that will surely have a lasting impact on their personal and social lives.
• Inspiring Museums: a wonderful way for students to explore the importance of museums in different cultures. Through cooperation with students and teachers from different European countries, students improved their language, ICT and social skills, as well as other 21st century skills, through various creative activities, using different ICT tools.

Dream After-School Club

 My Class 4 and Class 6 pupils have taken part in this year's OUP Project Competition, together with more than 1,300 pupils from 34  countries. They've watched a short film first, then shared ideas about different after-school clubs they would like to go to, and finally designed their posters in Canva.

by Teja, Mila, Nađa and Anđela

by Nina, Vukan, Nina and Tatjana

by Nikola, Luka, Aljoša and Vukašin

Far Away

This is the last song my Class 4 pupils have learned and loved. It's great for introducing or revising past forms, and a perfect announcement of summer holidays:

 Suzie went on holiday,
All the way to Spain.
She didn't want to go by air,
And so she took a train.

All my friends are far away,
I'm on my own today ...

Paula went on holiday,
To Australia.
She didn't read the flight number,
And flew to India.

All my friends are far away,
I'm on my own today ...

Danny went on holiday,
By ship to Mexico.
But Ben and Billy went by bus,
Now they're gone and so ...

All my friends are far away,
I'm on my own today.
But I'm not sad, I'm having fun,
I'm reading a great book. Hooray!

All my friends are far away ...

Our Town

Although this is a lovely song, we haven't sung it enough to learn it by heart:

Our town's got a lot of great things.
It's got a playground,
With a slide and some swings.
Our town is a great place to be.
It's got a lot of shops,
For you and for me.

Our town! Come to our town.
Our town! Come on, everyone.
Our town! Come to our town.
Our town! Come and have some fun.

Our town is a great place to stay.
It's got a park,
Where we can play all day.
Our town's got a nice swimming pool.
Jump into the water,
It's nice and cool.

Our town! Come to our town...

The Explorers

We've spent the whole year looking for clues and decoding messages with our book characters, and finally solved the last puzzle which took us to the statue of friendship and the end of our adventure.

The Explorers.
Here they come.
Lucy and Ben.
Adventure and fun.

The Explorers.
Here they are.
Ben and Lucy.
Action stars.

She's good at doing puzzles,
She always finds the clues,
And reads them very carefully,
They tell her what to do.

The Explorers ...

He's good at riding horses,
And swimming in the sea.
He's an action hero,
Just like you and me.

The Explorers ...