Our Year 9 language leaders took part in an exciting trip on Wednesday to teach French, Spanish and Russian to children in Year 3 at Charlton Kings Junior School, showcasing their fantastic linguistic and cultural knowledge and teaching skills!

Pupils were able to plan and lead 30-minute sessions with the pupils where they taught them about cultural aspects of each language such as Day of the Dead and the French Carnival as well as helping pupils to make their own skulls and masks. Pupils also taught pupils in the languages, delivering sessions on French food and hobbies, as well as Spanish animals and Russian greetings. Our pupils worked conscientiously to prepare for this visit, rehearsing their lessons and independently thinking about the sequence of activities as well as ensuring that they had plenty of games to keep the primary school children entertained!

It was a fantastic experience for both our students to gain confidence linguistically and in a leadership role, as well for the primary school pupils to immerse themselves into languages and raise the profile of languages in primary school.

Well done to all who took part, a great success!