Four children from year 5/6 went to join others from across the Rutland Learning Trust on Tuesday in developing their language skills. 

 

The children had a fantastic day exploring lots of different languages and looking at connections between them.

 

Activities during the day included:

 

• Introducing themselves in French, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish and Swahili!
• Decoding French sentences to find out facts about each other, by playing “Find someone who…”
• Exploring numbers in 8 different languages and trying to match up all the different ways of saying a given number, categorising them into languages that stem from Latin, those that stem from Saxon and those that are totally different (Greek and Mandarin!)
• Meeting Minimus the Latin Mouse and finding out about the Roman Invasion of Britain and Vindolanda.
• Singing a traditional Zulu song. 
• Learning about writing in Roman Britain and making their own “wax tablets” (from plasticine) to write on with styluses.
• Cracking some codes using the Greek alphabet (and writing our answers or our names on our tablets!)
• Learning an Italian song about animals, and using bilingual dictionaries to find the meaning of the different movements that the animals made.

 

The children each left with a pack of all the activities they had done, as well as some extras to try at home if they wish. 

 

A huge thank you to Mrs Honorez for organising the day.