Bridgewater Primary School. - Languages and International Blog

Languages and International Blog

Welcome to our Languages and International Blog. At Bridgewater, we have chosen Spanish as the language we teach, as it is widely spoken. This is taught to all children in years 3 to 6 by Mrs D'Agostini. We engage the children through playing games, singing songs and stories as well as developing their grasp of grammar and the written language. Please celebrate the children’s learning with us by commenting on the blog posts below. ¡Hasta luego!

We have been accredited with the International School Award (ISA) 2022-2025 in recognition of our international focus. We were praised by the British Council for our commitment to embedding a rich and creative range of international work.

Diwali

Once again, our school has been involved in the Diwali Parade in Northampton on 15th October. Some of our Year 3 children participated in a workshop to create Diwali lanterns with artist Paul Smith from Festive Road. Their illuminated diva lamps looked beautiful in the procession and many families from Bridgewater came to watch! Children also did some Rangoli art activities, Bollywood dancing and explored the story of Rama and Sita.

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European Day of Languages

To mark European Day of Languages, we looked at some interesting facts about languages.

For example, more than half of Europe is bilingual and La Gomera has a traditional whistling language called Silbo which is still taught in schools!

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We focused on cognates which look and sound similar to English so are very helpful when learning new languages. These include Fisch (German), Calculatrice (French), szponsor (Hungarian) and fforc (Welsh). How many can you think of?

Here are some in Spanish.

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