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Infant School

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Language of the Half Term

We welcome families from a wide range of ethnic minority backgrounds who speak various languages. 

 

Each half term we choose a language to celebrate and hold at least one "theme" day during the academic year. 

 

We begin the half term by holding a special assembly and inviting parent/s of our children who speak the language we are celebrating to join us. The children learn about the culture of the country and how to say some key phrases in that language. They also learn a song in singing assembly and listen to story in that language. All of the resources we use are uploaded onto Google Classroom to support our children's home learning.

 

We have learnt about many languages from around the world including German, Igbo, Mandarin, Welsh, Finish, Polish, Malayalam, Urdu, Portuguese, South African, French, Fula, Slovakian to name but a few! The language we learn each half term is based on the cultures of our families in school at that time.

 

In the table below you can the number of languages we have learnt about over the past few years.

 

We look forward to learning lots of languages in the forth-coming academic year!

Half termLanguage
Summer 2 2024Gaelic
Summer 1 2024Bulgarian
Spring 2 2024Shona
Spring 1 2024Afrikaans
Autumn 2 2023Romanian
Autumn 1 2023Malayalam

Summer 2 2023

Polish

Summer 1 2023

Italian

Spring 2 2023

Portuguese

Spring 1 2023

Urdu

Autumn 2 2022

Igbo

Autumn 1 2022

German

Summer 2 2022

French

Summer 1 2022

Nepali

Spring 2 2022

Ndebele

Spring 1 2022

Latvian

Autumn 2 2021

Tamil

Autumn 1 2021

Spanish

Summer 2 2021

Malayalam

Summer 1 2021

Polish

Spring 2 2021

Romanian

Spring 1 2020

French

Autumn 2 2019

Greek

Autumn 1 2019

Italian

Summer 2 2019

Chinese (Mandarin)

Summer 1 2019

Welsh

Spring 2 2019

Finish

Spring 1 2019

Polish

Autumn 2 2018

Portuguese

Autumn 1 2018

South African

Summer 2 2018

French Canadian

Summer 1 2018

Fula

Spring 2 2018

Slovakian

Spring 1 2018

Lithuanian

Autumn 2 2017

Russian

Autumn 1 2017

Russian

Summer 2 2017

Spanish

Summer 1 2017

Spanish

Spring 2 2017

Italy

Spring 1 2017

Italy

Autumn 2 2016

Indian

Autumn 1 2016

Indian

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