On Thursday 17th November Year 4 pupils from their feeder primary schools visited Painsley Catholic College’s Modern Foreign Languages department to participate in the 5th annual “Celebration of Languages Day.” This year the language chosen was German. The idea of the day is to give Year 4 pupils the chance to immerse themselves for a morning/afternoon in a Modern Foreign Language using fun leaning activities. Each pupil had the opportunity to learn a song about being a foreigner, which all pupils then sang together in the hall at the end of the session. Another activity was to learn to introduce themselves to a pupil from another school in German and some pupils were even brave enough to demonstrate this in the hall in front of all of the others. Finally all pupils enjoyed watching a short video based on the well-known book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” (“die Kleine Raupe Nimmersatt” in German) and they then used the new vocabulary they had learnt to play a game. The Year 4 pupils were supported in their learning by 20 Year 8 students from Painsley who were chosen by the MFL Department due to their commitment to and enthusiasm for Modern Languages, some of them being in the MFL Gifted and Talented group. All Year 4 pupils seemed to enjoy their time at Painsley and were very enthusiastic in their first attempts at learning German.
