Strathaven Academy Modern Languages

[Miss McDonald 🌻🫶🏼🌈 @MissLingoMcD]

Thank you so much to the Caledonia Gladiators for your inspirational talk with our S3s! We really appreciate you making the time to come in and share your love for languages and basketball! 🏀
Merci, Mathilde. Gracias, Lluis 🇫🇷🇪🇸
@StrathavenAcad @StrathavenML

[Miss McDonald 🌻🫶🏼🌈 @MissLingoMcD]

S3 had a great time today celebrating European Languages week! 🌍
We had a special visit from the Caledonian Gladiators who spoke to us about the importance of languages in sports!🇫🇷🇪🇸🏀
Thank you so much to the language ambassadors for helping deliver the presentation! 💪🏼🥳

[Strathaven Academy Modern Languages @StrathavenML]

A big well done to our S2 football stars who demonstrated their fabulous French football skills at @BiggarHigh last week as part of Le Foot et le Francophonie Project ⚽️ 🇫🇷 . Thanks for hosting us @BiggarModLangs 👏🏼

[Kathleen McCormick @KMCormick29]

#lefoot et #lafrancophonie @BiggarModLangs - what a privilege to be invited along to hear amazing French linguists in S2/3 from @BiggarHigh @LarkhallAc @StrathavenAcad and @LesmahagowHigh as well as see their football skills in action!🇫🇷⚽️👏🏻👏🏻

[e-Sgoil @eSgoil]

Did you know e-Sgoil offers study support for Senior Phase language learners in French, Spanish & Gaelic/Gaidhlig?
Please feel free to share this handy subject timetable
https://t.co/8ScQ0J69rq

#NeLO @EducationScot #NeLO @AllianceLangs
@scottishcilt @CnPNaiseanta

[Strathaven Academy Modern Languages @StrathavenML]

October LOTM board 🌎📚We’re so lucky to have so many enthusiastic and resilient linguists in our department 🇫🇷🇪🇸 Superstars⭐️🏆

[Sean McDonald @seanmcdonald01]

Great fun this morning speaking to @StephenJardine on @BBCRadioScot about the value of speaking multiple languages 🇪🇸🇫🇷🇮🇹

[Strathaven Academy Modern Languages @StrathavenML]

Our Fantastic Frenchies in S1 having a great time interviewing each other (en français) about their favourite school subjects 🇫🇷⭐️ Ben managed to get a whopping 28(!) responses in record time 🏆😎

[Strathaven Academy Modern Languages @StrathavenML]

S3 finishing off our celebrations for European day of Languages🇫🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹! Many thanks to @ArnoldClark for the sunglasses 😎🌎

[Strathaven Academy Modern Languages @StrathavenML]

S2 working on building their knowledge of French language and grammar. Formidable! 🇫🇷🏆

[Strathaven Academy Modern Languages @StrathavenML]

Another month of celebrating our fabulous pupils! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Strathaven Academy Modern Languages @StrathavenML]

S3 Spanish enjoying a game of Guess Who today en español! Great revision of physical description ( and accessories 🤠) vocab that we’ve covered in class recently!

[Strathaven Academy Modern Languages @StrathavenML]

Grazie mille to @Paul_SCILT a true Italian ‘esperto’ who also happens to be Professional Development Officer & Player Education & Integration Officer at Celtic FC. Our pupils are still talking about your wonderful presentation about your amazing career journey! Che bravo!🏆🇮🇹🎓⚽️

[Strathaven Academy Modern Languages @StrathavenML]

Friend of Strathaven Academy, keen languages enthusiast and (famous!) Broadcaster and Podcaster @seanmcdonald01 also sent us a video to promote languages! Our pupils loved the enthusiastic Spanish message and were only slightly jealous that they weren’t on holiday too! 🌎🏆🇪🇸

[Strathaven Academy Modern Languages @StrathavenML]

We were extremely lucky to have an amazing, informative, engaging and interesting video appearance from Celtic FC Japanese Interpreter and Translator Sato Nakamura who told us about his career path and how his love of football led him to his dream job! ⚽️🌎🏆

[Strathaven Academy Modern Languages @StrathavenML]

Our S6 Languages Ambassador Willow spoke about how important and fun languages can be! And we had a super impressive video appearance from Scotland and Aston Villa Player John McGinn who did an equally impressive job of promoting languages in life 🌎🏆⚽️

[Strathaven Academy Modern Languages @StrathavenML]

Thanks to our amazing S6 Spanish students for their appearances! Cameron did a great job of promoting languages to our younger pupils and Grace and Olivia gave us a ‘fenomenal’ rendition of a lovely Spanish song!! 🇪🇸🎶🌎

[Strathaven Academy Modern Languages @StrathavenML]

Our assembly for International Day of Languages kicked off (⚽️) by Ms Baran and Miss Stuart (featuring our lovely linguist Cammy F in the background!)

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Our Linguist of the Month board is now live 🏆Enhorabuena & Félicitations to our lovely linguists 🇪🇸🇫🇷! Look out for new names from each teacher each month ⭐️

[Strathaven Academy Modern Languages @StrathavenML]

It was great to welcome @seanmcdonald01 back to @StrathavenAcad for the Awards Ceremony! ¡Muchas gracias! y merci beaucoup for highlighting the importance of languages and how they’ve shaped your career 🌎🇪🇸🇫🇷!