Maestra Duffy 👩‍🏫 / Linguist fae Glasgow

PGDE Spanish 2023/24 @strathEDU👩‍🎓 Mandarin teacher 🇨🇳 1st Class MA Spanish & English Language & Linguistics @Uofglasgow, Tianjin Scholar @CISSStrathclyde

[St. JOHS MUSIC @st_johs_music]

Our Vocal Ensemble giving our Belgian 🇧🇪 audience a wee taste of home 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 with our other national anthem Caledonia….

⁦@MusicSlc⁩

[St. JOHS MUSIC @st_johs_music]

Homeward bound after a busy few days in Belgium. It’s fair to say we have had a ball but we all need our beds. Goodbye Belgium for now🇧🇪🎷🎺🎸🥁⛴️

[St JOHS Modern Languages @JohsModern]

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year of the Snake from St JOHS Languages Café 🐍🧧

We celebrated with dumplings, paper lantern crafts and practicing our chopsticks skills 🥟🥢

恭喜发财 🎉

@linggow_

[Confucius Institute for Scotland’s Schools @CISSStrathclyde]

We're wishing everyone a Happy Chinese New Year and a prosperous year of the snake 🥳🇨🇳 🐍

Our New Year's card features this year's winners of the Chinese New Year poster competition. Check out the wonder winners and honourable mentions here: https://t.co/zIOnVTe6Zg

[Maestra Duffy 👩‍🏫 / Linguist fae Glasgow @linggow_]

Spot me being very shy in the NON-voluntary staff choir… 😂 great fun on the last day of term at St JOHS 🎄🎉

[St John Ogilvie HS @StJOHS]

Lovely Christmas service today @StJOHS, thank you Fr Delaney, followed by our traditional fun with staff and pupils. Merry Christmas everyone!

[Maestra Duffy 👩‍🏫 / Linguist fae Glasgow @linggow_]

Cute cards, Christmas jumpers and nice company, teacher Christmas is the best 🥰

[Maestra Duffy 👩‍🏫 / Linguist fae Glasgow @linggow_]

First two shows done ✅ so proud of our wee (actually rather big) cast! Roll on tonight for our final show 👏🎉

[St John Ogilvie HS @StJOHS]

Wonderful matinee performance of our Christmas panto for our P7 pupils today @StJOHS! Tickets still available for our two evening performances tonight and tomorrow 7pm

[Maestra Duffy 👩‍🏫 / Linguist fae Glasgow @linggow_]

What a great day supporting the language leaders with their fantastic “The Right to Speak your own language” workshop 👏 our S5 language leaders put so much work into this and the S1’s loved it, and learned a lot too… (As did I!)

[St JOHS Modern Languages @JohsModern]

Our S5 language leaders delivered a workshop on “The Right to Speak your own Language” for S1 Right’s Day 🌍 the S1’s had a ball and showed off their knowledge of other languages, accents and cultures 👏 we are a very proud department today!

[St JOHS Modern Languages @JohsModern]

Pupils in Miss Duffy’s Mandarin class ordered food from around China from their very own Chinese menus, and interacted with Miss Cui, our waitress for today! Great customers and great table service here at DYW Mandarin 😆🥢 @linggow_

[St John Ogilvie HS @StJOHS]

Wow! What a night @StJOHS at our annual Morrison Cup Public Speaking competition. Well done to all of our speakers.

[Maestra Duffy 👩‍🏫 / Linguist fae Glasgow @linggow_]

I had a fantastic night judging at the @StJOHS Morrison Cup, 10 years after my own public speaking career at the school… 🫣 What a lovely full circle moment! I was blown away by the talent and bravery of the young people tonight, congratulations to our winners 👏👏

[St JOHS Modern Languages @JohsModern]

Chinese dumpling tasting went down a treat in our DYW Mandarin class and Wednesday lunchtime languages café with Miss Cui and Miss Duffy @linggow_ 🥟🥢 our pupils thought everything was very 好吃 (hao chi) 👍

[Miss McDonald 🌻🫶🏼🌈 @MissLingoMcD]

Brilliant day at @SALTLANGS conference 2024!! Really informative sessions and amazing to spend time with @linggow_ and Ms Xufré!!🩷

[Maestra Duffy 👩‍🏫 / Linguist fae Glasgow @linggow_]

Fantastic day at the SALT Conference. Great to see all my lingo pals and be inspired by some amazing practitioners doing important work for language learning in Scotland. Thank you! 🙏 Keep ing languages firmly on the map 🗺️💪 @SALTLANGS

[Maestra Duffy 👩‍🏫 / Linguist fae Glasgow @linggow_]

Great end to the week at the JOHS Halloween Disco 👻🎃 @StJOHS

[Maestra Duffy 👩‍🏫 / Linguist fae Glasgow @linggow_]

Took no pictures but had a lovely day at the St Andrew's 6K run today with @StJOHS 🏃‍♀️🏅

[Maestra Duffy 👩‍🏫 / Linguist fae Glasgow @linggow_]

My S3 Mandarin class learned all about the Mid-Autumn festival this week 🌕🥮🍂 had to show off these wonderful posters! @JohsModern

[Maestra Duffy 👩‍🏫 / Linguist fae Glasgow @linggow_]

@Sufly9 Love this idea!

[Maestra Duffy 👩‍🏫 / Linguist fae Glasgow @linggow_]

Absolutely loved taking pupils out on my very first school trip! So proud of the future linguists and world changers we have at Ogilvie ✨

[St JOHS Modern Languages @JohsModern]

Fantastic day at the “Moving Forward with Languages” conference last week! Pupils got a taste of what it’s like to study a language at university and tried their hand at translation and interpreting 👏 @scottishcilt @linggow_