European Languages Week

This year’s European Week of Languages sought to celebrate and promote a quite simple notion: that the study and enjoyment of other languages and cultures enriches our daily lives and provides unique perspectives and opportunities. This year’s week of events and competitions at St Paul’s was an uplifting and joyous celebration of language-learning and European culture, both modern and ancient. Our pupils threw themselves into the exciting range of activities on offer with great enthusiasm and curiosity. Well done to all of the winners and thank you to all of the pupils and staff for organising and running such a varied, informative and (above all) fun week of activities.

Félicitations, Gut gemacht, Congratulazioni, Felicidades and thank you to all who took part!

Report written by Mr Tofts (Head of Faculty: Languages and Classics)

Here is a taster of the week:

House Pétanque

Winners: Anthony Hillman and Freddie Snowball (Gill House)

Fifth Form Languages Escape Room

Winners: Leo Ridge, Sebastian Holden, Theodore Emmerson Miller, Shyamak Sawant, Aadhil Ramanathan, Maximillian Rainer

Fourth Form House Languages Passports Competition

Winners: Yad Rahman, Daniel Khosrowpanah Falcone, Rafael Modiano, Lucien Wong, Rafi Malhotra Vihaan Sinha, Leo Pissioti Capriello, Olle Van Angeren, Gabriel Palazzo, Yunho Nam

Pupils vs Languages Teachers University Challenge

Winners: Aidan Meadows, John Moretti, Alexis Brian, and Luke Magalhaes (U8)

Fourth Form German Escape Room

Winners: Olle van Angeren; Alexander Nikolov

Other events and competitions throughout the week were:

Latin Wordle

Introduction to Ukrainian Lesson with Ms Gaidamaschuk

Introduction to Modern Greek Lesson with Ms Gaidamaschuk

Introduction to Portuguese Lesson with Miss Lapaire-Adumekwe

Introduction to Canadian French with Mr Tofts

Introduction to Mandarin with Jane Zheng (Head of Chinese SPGS)

Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Lesson with Mr Taylor

Introduction to World Heritage Sites of Spain with Mr Davies

Classical Athletics Workshop

Fourth Form Italian Gelato Workshop

Fourth Form Spanish Escape Room

Fourth Form Spanish Quiz

Fourth Form Spanish Churros Breakfast

Fifth Form Italian Sicilian Cannoli Workshop

Sixth Form Italian Tiramisù Workshop

Sixth Form German Poetry Workshop

Talk on Spanish Horror Films with Mrs Lapaire-Adumekwe

Italian Slapzi tournament

Eighth Form German Breakfast

Classical Bake Off

Iberian Gastronomic Experience