Penicuik Modern Languages

Modern Languages department at Penicuik High School 🇫🇷🇪🇸

[Mr Macleod @MrMacleod22]

World Book Day Door Competition 📚
This year, we made an interactive hot chocolate stand based on our Advanced Higher Novel “Como Agua Para Chocolate” …and of course we won 🥇

[Penicuik High School @PenicuikHS]

The results of the @PenicuikHS Christmas door competition have been announced.

1st - Miss McEvoy
2nd - Advanced higher art door
3rd - Miss Tavakoli

Best department - Art

Thanks to Mr McLeod and the S6 Senior Leadership Team for organising and judging #PHSpride

[Penicuik Modern Languages @PenicuikML]

@FrFilmFestUK @PenicuikHS
What a fantastic film! La Petite Bande in our school assembly Hall for all of S1 & 2 to experience the French Film Festival 😊

[Penicuik Modern Languages @PenicuikML]

@FrFilmFestUK @PenicuikHS
What a fantastic film! La Petite Bande in our school assembly Hall for all of S1 & 2 to experience the French Film Festival 😊

[Penicuik Modern Languages @PenicuikML]

A great day out with the Higher Spanish class to the Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival then tapas at Cafe Andaluz .... what a lovely way to end the term!

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See you all on Wednesday with the exciting news that we have 2 new members of staff 🥳🥳🥳

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Almost there .....

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Thank you so much to @OnattiProdsLtd for performing La Maison Hantée 🏚️ for S1 & 2 this morning! Very funny & a great experience for our students as the play was 100% in French - well done to our star volunteers for getting up on stage as well!

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Come & join us! Our lovely wee dept is looking for a 0.6 mat cover from Feb 23. Great staff & kids & only a stone's throw from Edinburgh!
The post is a fixed term until 31/01/2024. Closing date Wed 14th Dec. Get in touch if you would like more info! 😁🇫🇷🇪🇸 https://t.co/RFaZDLXfvu

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A really interesting and inspiring assembly from @MingalabaUK yesterday for our S3s/S4s on the importance of languages in the football industry and beyond ⚽️✨#DYW

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And they’re off! 📮✈️ our first S3 pen pal letters have left Penicuik and are en route to L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, our twin town in Provence 🇫🇷 https://t.co/CXq15VWA12

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Our S2s have been learning about René Goscinny & Jean-Jacques Sempé’s ‘Le Petit Nicolas’ - they have been really creative coming up with their own book titles and designing front covers in Sempé’s style! 🖋 https://t.co/TRYteR24WI

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Revising ‘parts of the body’ vocab in Higher Spanish with Mrs A! 😅 https://t.co/zHsGwNs4MI

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Some fantastic posters by our new S1s to help them remember classroom instructions in French! 🙋👀🤫👂🪑📝 https://t.co/AY1ZkfBTZ4

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@FrFilmFestUK @aroblingo They really enjoyed it, thank you! Definitely a few tears 😅

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2 great mornings spent with S2 & S3 for our end of year French Film Festival 🍿#Fahim♟@FrFilmFestUK @aroblingo

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End of term treats with N5 & Higher Spanish today - churros con chocolate 😀🍫☕️

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Very excited for our end of year French Film Festival next week! We will be offering special screenings in the assembly hall of the film ‘Fahim’, a modern fairytale about a refugee child taking the chess world by storm. See below for details👇🍿🎞🎬

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The ML department have loved meeting our new S1 classes this week! They made welcome hands to share some information about themselves in French 👋 Looking forward to seeing you all back at PHS in August! ✏️📚 https://t.co/LsnzDi4VPK

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Some fantastic workshop opportunities from @scottishcilt for Higher & Advanced Higher 🇫🇷🇪🇸

[SCILT @scottishcilt]

SCILT has teamed up with university languages departments across Scotland for this series of workshops, suitable for pupils studying any language at Higher or Advanced Higher.
Registrations will open in August 2022. In the meantime, why not share this flyer with your learners?