International Languages @Joeys

Official account of St. Joseph's International Languages Department, Bolton. (French, Spanish, EAL & Home Languages).

[International Languages @Joeys @Joeys_Languages]

#Eidmubarak.

[HalilMrT - Official @HalilMrT4Real]

Eid mubarak to all who are celebrating! ❤️🤲

Eid al-Adha is one of the most important festivals in Islam. It is a celebration of devotion to faith and is a time of prayer, charity, reflection and community.

[Maya Angelou @DrMayaAngelou]

Today is the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia 💛

Dr. Maya Angelou: “We are more alike than we are unalike.”

#EqualityForAll

[International Languages @Joeys @Joeys_Languages]

@sagradafamilia

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

If you pitched this as a screenplay every studio would reject it for being too on-the-nose.

A 73-year-old architect walks to confession in 1926 and gets hit by a tram on the Gran Via in Barcelona. He's mistaken for a vagrant because of his worn clothes and left at a pauper's hospital. He dies three days later. His name is Antoni Gaudí. The cathedral he leaves behind is less than a quarter complete. The plans to finish it sit in his workshop as plaster models and detailed drawings.

Ten years after his death, in July 1936, FAI anarchists break into that workshop. They smash the plaster models. They burn the archive of drawings and calculations. They pry open Gaudí's tomb. For the next 50 years, architects piece together a destroyed playbook from photographs and broken plaster fragments.

The geometry was the real problem. Gaudí designed the church using upside-down hanging-chain models because the math for hyperboloid intersections did not yet exist on paper. He had solved it physically. Computers finally caught up to him in the 1980s. By 2010 the project was 50% complete. By 2015 stone elements that took months to hand-carve were being modelled digitally and machine-cut in days.

Now the kicker. The building is funded entirely by people paying admission to see scaffolding. €134.5 million of income in 2025, all private, none of it from the Spanish state or the Vatican. About 4.7 million tourists a year buying €26 tickets to watch a cathedral get built. The unfinished state was the product.

On June 10, 2026, exactly 100 years to the day after Gaudí died, the cross goes up on the Tower of Jesus Christ. 144 years from groundbreaking. 172.5 meters tall. The tallest church building in the world, beating Ulm Minster, which took 513 years.

When asked why his project was taking so long, Gaudí said one thing: "My client is not in a hurry."

Turns out neither was he.

[Bolton Wanderers in the Community @OfficialBWITC]

Easter HAF at Ladybridge Highschool

There's still time to join us at Ladybridge High School this week for our Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) funded by Department for Education

Thursday 9th - Friday 10th April
12pm-4pm

Free food and drink provided every day

Thursday 9th April: Football, Multi-Sports, Silent Disco
Friday 10th April: Football, Multi-Sports, Zorb Football

Sign up today: https://t.co/7Cy5E0Pgig

#HAF2026 #BoltonHAF2026

[Bolton Wanderers in the Community @OfficialBWITC]

Last minute Easter School Holiday Plans 🐣⚽

Football Camps with Bolton Wanderers start tomorrow! Book your child's space today https://t.co/nI0YhRnsPO

📆 Tuesday 7th April - Friday 17th April 2026
📍 Bolton Arena, Arena Approach, Horwich, BL6 6LB
⏰ 10:00am-3:00pm (9:00am if you book an early drop off)
⚽ 5 - 13 years old

#BWitC | #WSitC

[International Languages @Joeys @Joeys_Languages]

@Joeys_rchs let's get Speaking!

[National Consortium for Languages Education @ncle_ioe]

#mfl teachers, you'll love this opportunity for your pupils to show their language skills - whether a language they are learning at school or one they speak at home.

Join us to #CelebrateSpeaking. Details below 👇

#mfltwitterati #edutwitter

[Maya Angelou @DrMayaAngelou]

“We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.” — Maya Angelou

On #NationalReligiousFreedomDay, we honor freedom of belief and the dignity of difference.

#ReligiousFreedom #MayaAngelou

[International Languages @Joeys @Joeys_Languages]

In A World Where You Can Be Anything, #BeKind #KindnessMatters @Joeys_rchs #JoeysARK

[Bolton Learning Partnership @BLP19K]

What an amazing, kind and inspirational initiative @StJosephsRCHS ! 🎁

Bolton care leavers to get Christmas Presents 👇

https://t.co/0tzFCrejIc

#ambitiouscollaboration #proud #Christmas #KindnessMatters

[International Languages @Joeys @Joeys_Languages]

#KindnessMatters #BeKindAlways

[Maya Angelou @DrMayaAngelou]

“Then I met… the lady who threw me my first lifeline.” 💛 – Maya Angelou

On #WorldKindnessDay, we honor Mrs. Bertha Flowers, whose compassion helped young Maya rediscover her voice — reminding us that one act of kindness can change the world. 🌿

#MayaAngelou #Kindness

[International Languages @Joeys @Joeys_Languages]

Happy World Kindness Day to all our followers, from Joey's ARK. ❤️ If you have anyone in school or one of our families you would like to nominate for a #Kindness shout-out 🎉 please email [email protected] In a World where you can be anything, #BeKind!

[TeacherGoals @teachergoals]

Happy World Kindness Day!
https://t.co/leSsDUnQAd

[Embassy of Spain UK @EmbSpainUK]

Today in Spain is All Saints Day, is tradition that people go to cemeteries to honor their dead relatives and bring them flowers 🌷🌺

Cemeteries usually have cypresses, which has its origin in the myth of cyparissus, from the Greek mythology.

#TodosLosSantos #AllSaintsDay 🪦🌷

[International Languages @Joeys @Joeys_Languages]

Happy Diwali to all our community celebrating #Diwali2025

[International Languages @Joeys @Joeys_Languages]

Today is #InternationalLiteracyDay. Dr. Maya Angelou believed that reading & knowledge are the pathways to freedom. 📚

"When you know you are of worth… you will not allow anyone to treat you cheaply." – Letter to My Daughter (2008)
#LiteracyForAll

[Bolton Wanderers in the Community @OfficialBWITC]

The NHS is offering free lung health checks to current and former smokers aged 55-74 from its mobile clinics. The checks are currently for people based at GP surgeries in parts of #Bolton

Look out for an invite by post/text.

Check when it is coming to your GP practice here: https://t.co/PaK8uHyFIu

#GMLungHealthCheck | #BWitC | #BWFC

[International Languages @Joeys @Joeys_Languages]

@Joeys_rchs

[Bolton Wanderers in the Community @OfficialBWITC]

Book your child onto our Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) sessions this Summer, supported by the Department for Education.

📍 Bolton St Catherine’s Academy, Stitch-Mi-Lane, Breightmet, Bolton BL2 4HU
📆 Tuesdays and Thursdays
⏰ 10am - 2:00pm

📍 St James’ Church of England High School, Lucas Rd, Farnworth, Bolton BL4 9RU
📆 Monday and Wednesday
⏰ 10am - 2:00pm

Book your child's space at https://t.co/nN4gt44uc0

#HAF2025 #BoltonHAF2025

[International Languages @Joeys @Joeys_Languages]

Happy #InternationalFriendshipDay to all our followers. @Joeys_rchs

[International Languages @Joeys @Joeys_Languages]

@Joeys_rchs

[Bolton Wanderers in the Community @OfficialBWITC]

Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) with BWitC!

Join us at Bolton St Catherine's Academy for our Summer HAF, funded by the Department for Education.

4 weeks of football, multi sports, arts and crafts and so much more!

Sign your child up today at
https://t.co/3dNyd5LqFR

#BWitC | #HAF2025 | #BoltonHAF2025

[International Languages @Joeys @Joeys_Languages]

@Joeys_rchs

[Lancashire County Council @LancashireCC]

Did you know that most of our @LancsMuseums museums are now offering free admission for those up to the age of 18?

And for £25, gain unlimited re-entry for the pass holder and up to three adults with our Xplorer pass.

Discover more: https://t.co/zIxPSMcnfN

#LancsSummer

[International Languages @Joeys @Joeys_Languages]

Can any of our local @Joeys_rchs primary schools benefit from this @languagenut giveaway? #Languagenut

[Languagenut @languagenut]

Language learning in UK primary schools is on the decline. Under-resourced, little guidance and no clear path to secondary.

we've decided to give Languagenut away to 1,000 UK primary schools for free for 25/26.

If your school or feeder schools are interested, please email [email protected]