International Mother language Day 2026

This week, the children celebrated International Mother Language Day. International Mother Language Day aims to raise awareness of language, cultural diversity and multilingualism around the world. International Mother Language Day is really important because it helps to ensure that we don't forget about endangered languages. It is an opportunity to celebrate the diversity in languages spoken across the world and the cultural heritage of those who speak them. 
 

The children completed several activities throughout the day, as well as learning to say hello in a range of different languages and speak to their class mates about the languages they speak at home. All children were respectful of each others languages and were very resilent when trying to speak in a different language to their peers.

"I liked finding the differnt words in the wordsearch- it was lots of fun!" - AJ

" I enjoyed learning to say hello in different languages." - Kai

" I could not believe how many different languages are spoken by children in our class." - Ayra

European Day of Languages 2024

This week at Broadford, the children celebrated the 'European Day of languages'.

The European day of languages is a celebration of the amazing number and variety of languages spoken across Europe. The aim is to raise awareness of the wide variety of languages in Europe as well as teaching children that learning other peoples' languages is a way of helping us to understand each other better and overcome our cultural differences.

Throughout the day, children took part in different activities that deepened their learning of different languages and had a language for each class, where they learnt how to say 'Hello' and 'Goodbye' in their language. Children were using their reciprocity skills when learning how to say 'Hello' and 'Goodbye in different languages. They also reflected on their learning as they moved around the school at different parts of the day and were exposed to a variety of European languages. 

I speak a different language at home - Patrick

Wow, we speak so many diferent languages in this class - Natalia

I want to learn all the languages in  the world so I can understand everybody - Inaya

I know how to speak different languages - George

I can already count to 10 in French - Ronnie

Its great that some people can speak two or more languages and so many people in school speak different languages - Osman

 

European Day of Languages 2023

 

This week at Broadford, the children celebrated the 'European Day of languages'.

The European day of languages is a celebration of the amazing number and variety of languages spoken across Europe. The aim is to raise awareness of the wide variety of languages in Europe as well as teaching children that learning other peoples' languages is a way of helping us to understand each other better and overcome our cultural differences.

Throughout the day, children took part in different activities that deepened their learning of different languages and had a language for each class, where they learnt how to say 'Hello' and 'Goodbye' in their language. Children were using their reciprocity skills when learning how to say 'Hello' and 'Goodbye in different languages. They also reflected on their learning as they moved around the school at different parts of the day and were exposed to a variety of European languages. 

Kezia - 'I know how to say hello in Estonia -Tere.'

Mateo-‘I can say ‘Hello’ in 15 languages.’

Aadya -  'I love that I can choose the patterns and the shapes for my own flag.'

Irfan - 'I loved doing the register in another language.'

Sahir -'I have learnt lots of words for 'Hello' today !'

George - 'This is amazing ! Did you know I can speak 3 languages already ?'

All children had a great day, learning lots of new languages.