Thursday, 11 November 2010
Piccolingo: Languages in Action - a great success!
Piccolingo: Languages in Action was a great success! Early Years establishments across Edinburgh celebrated language learning by holding events of their own. There was lots of dressing up and singing, and many languages were celebrated. Over the next few days will be publishing photos of some of the exciting events that were held on 10th November. Watch this space...
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Abbeyhill Nursery
Abbeyhill Nursery will celebrate Piccoling: Languages in Action on Wednesday 10th November. The EAL teachers will read a story to the children in Polish and Urdu. The nursery teacher will read a story in French, and parents have been invitied to visit the nursery and read stories too.
Gracemount Primary School
On Wednesday 10th November, children at Gracemount Primary will be learning the months of the year in Polish and Arabic, and in in P1, they will be using a 'Timothy Goes to School' DVD to learn how to say 'thank you' in a variety of languages . The children are really looking forward to it.
Craigour Park Primary
The EAL team at Craigour Park Primary were involved in celebrating the Piccolingo event on Monday 8 November. A number of activities took place throughout the school. It was great fun - all pupils were very enthusiastic and keen to talk about and try out different languages.
More information is available from the Craigour Park Primary website.
More information is available from the Craigour Park Primary website.
Monday, 8 November 2010
Broughton Primary School
Broughton Primary are celebrating Piccoling: Languages in Action on Wednesday 10th November with an International Day. The whole school will be involved.
In the morning, all pupils will move round classrooms to ‘visit’ all countries (classes). Each class will need to design a flag of their country and display it somewhere in the class. All pupils will be given a ‘passport’ and when they have visited each ‘country’ they will draw the relevant flag in their passport and write interesting facts they have found out about each country.
In the afternoon, all pupils, parent helpers and staff will go to the hall for an ‘International Concert’.
The countries to be celebrated include:
In the morning, all pupils will move round classrooms to ‘visit’ all countries (classes). Each class will need to design a flag of their country and display it somewhere in the class. All pupils will be given a ‘passport’ and when they have visited each ‘country’ they will draw the relevant flag in their passport and write interesting facts they have found out about each country.
In the afternoon, all pupils, parent helpers and staff will go to the hall for an ‘International Concert’.
The countries to be celebrated include:
- Nigeria
- Scotland
- Bangladesh
- Spain
- Jamaica
- Pakistan
- Poland
- France
- India
- Malawi
- Japan
Stockbridge Primary Nursery
On Wednesday 10th November, the children in Stockbridge Primary Nursery class will celebrate Spanish and Polish. They will take part in an art and literacy day focusing on Spanish and Polish art works, working in many different ways and with a wide range of media. They will also look at key words linked to the paintings, such as colour, size and mood.
St Mary’s RC Primary
The whole school will be involved in celebrating Spanish and French as part of Piccolingo: Languages in Action. All classes from P1 – P7 will have either a game, song, interactive game on the smart board or a snack even, relating to the language they learn in their class.
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