EDL Events 20th-24th of September 2021
Poster Competition Winners
2nd year Winners
Afiq Ezani, Zach Greene, Gabriella Ciubeico, Emma Ivers Walpole, Imogen Rose Pearse, Rawa Zia, Ben Murphy, Daniel Adeoti.
3rd year Winners
Aitana Munoz, Andreea Hulujan, Andreea Cornienco, Henry Adesina, Blathnaid Phelan
Paella Cooking Contest Winners
5th year
Artis Sakne ( 1st place), Francis Moran ( 1st place) Jordan Kindada ( 1st place)
Blessing Lunga ( 2nd Place),
Emily Zhang ( 3rd place), Alina Croitoru ( 3rd place), Lovro Knezovic ( 3rd place)
Paella
Monday, 20th of Sept: El Día Mundial de la Paella. Students and teachers are encouraged to cook a recipe of their own paella and share their photos/videos. Students in 3rd year and 5th year Spanish classes were taking part in a competition for the best paella presentation, where they all had to prove their cooking skills. The winners of each class will be announced, and they will be rewarded for their effort and skills with generous prizes.
5th year LCA had a cooking class with Ms. C. Hanlon, making French toast, which in Spanish these are called Torrijas, a similar recipe traditionally prepared in Spain for Lent and Holly Week before Easter
Poster Competition
Second and Third year students are participating in a Poster competition promoting their own language or a European Language as part of EDL celebrations. The winners of our 2021 EDL Poster Competition will be announced on Friday.
Table Quiz
First year students will take part in a EDL Table Quiz and do a project on a multilingual celebrity and research what languages they speak.
During the week, all our students will take part in various language related activities such as: watching videos of young poliglots around the world, famous celebrities talking about the experience learning other languages, understanding the science behind the brain function when learning other languages .
Students who speak other languages are asked to teach their class teachers and their peer students some of the basic introduction phrases in the language they speak.
Students will take part in a survey to establish how many languages are spoken in our school up to date.
Celebrating European Day of Languages
25th September 2020
On Friday 25th September 2020, our students had an opportunity to take part in various language related activities such as watching videos of young poliglots around the world, famous celebrities talking about their experience of learning other languages and understanding the science behind how the brain functions when learning other languages.
- All students took part in a Table Quiz.
- 1st and 2nd years designed Posters and entered a Poster Competition where they had the chance to promote languages or a language of their choice.
We are very pleased to announce that the winners of our 2020 EDL Poster Competition are:
1st year:
Victoria Caracuianu ( 1st place)
Sean O’Rourke( 2nd place)
Joseph Hazel ( 3rd place)
2nd year:
Nikita Cekranova ( 1st place)
Yazmin Wynne ( 2nd place)
Niamh Cross ( 3rd place)
Congratulations to all our students !
It has been great fun celebrating the European Day of Languages in our school on Friday 25th September 2020. We were very proud to take part in promoting linguistic diversity and achieving greater intercultural understanding in the multicultural environment of our school community.
Our survey of the school population, shows that there are around 20 languages spoken in our community!
In our classrooms we are encouraging our students to participate in lifelong language learning in and out of school. As a one to one device school, we take full advantage of learning languages through the use of ICT in our classrooms. For example, students were encouraged to try to participate in a language challenge this year by going beyond their comfort zone and learning a new language using apps such as Duolingo which is available on their iPad.
