CILT, the National Centre for Languages has just launched the next Languages and Film Talent Awards (LAFTAs) competition, which offers the perfect chance for you to test your creativity and have some fun with languages.
The LAFTAs is a national competition inviting 13-21 year olds to make short films about the importance of languages.
Find out more and how to enter the competition from:
Turismo Valencia has just launched an exciting competition for 14-18 year-old students of Spanish in the UK. Three students will win a football course run by Valencia FC Foundation in early July with the chance to meet team players and train alongside their promising youngsters.
To take part in the competition you should enrol on the Destination Valencia website and create an advert for the city of Valencia - the proposal must be in Spanish and is limited to one entry per student. For more information email Manuel Balaguer Carmona asesoriaedimburgo.uk@educacion.es
A team at Millburn Academy in Inverness has won the UK level of the ‘Charlemagne Youth Prize’.
Read more on the LTS International education blog
http://ltsblogs.org.uk/internationaleducation/2009/03/25/europe-and-the-charlemagne-youth-prize/
Shawlands Academy cooked up a winning entry at a recent competition for schools in Glasgow aimed at getting pupils actively learning about employability and enterprise skills through the use of modern languages.
The Glasgow International Job Centre competition set pupils aged 14 from eleven secondary schools the task of investigating and gathering all the information needed to recruit someone for a job in another country - a task made more difficult by the fact they had to do all of it in the language of their chosen country.
Read more of this article from the British Council
The Spanish Education Office is launching a contest open to all primary and secondary schools in Scotland to give recognition to those schools that excel in the promotion and provision of the teaching of Spanish within the school. Entries must be submitted by the headship team or modern languages coordinators before April 20 2009. All the information about prizes and criteria to be awarded can be seen on The Consejería web page:
http://www.mepsyd.es/exterior/uk/es/consej/es/promocion/concursos.shtml
All Scottish primary schools are invited to join the Junior Language Challenge, the only national language-learning competition of its kind in the UK.
The JLC was started six years ago with the aim of encouraging children under the age of 11 to develop a lifelong passion for language learning, by using cutting-edge multimedia software to learn up to three foreign languages as they compete against schools from all over the country.
The competition is organised and run by modern languages publisher EuroTalk Ltd and this is what it offers:
- a fun, interesting way to give children a headstart in language learning
- the chance to offer a new language (one you wouldn’t already be teaching) (and EuroTalk say it won’t be a drain on time as they take responsibilty for organising everything)
- because of the way the software is designed, teachers need no previous knowledge of the languages used
- great prizes for everyone
There is a nominal competition fee of £2.50 per child. These monies go entirely to an educational charity supported by EuroTalk. Each year the winner of the competition visits Africa to inaugurate a classroom purchased with the competition fees.
If you’re interested, there are full details and an online application form on the EuroTalk website.
The British Council reports: Two Scottish primary schools have reached the finals of the eTwinning European Prize Awards to be held in Prague later this month.Bowhouse Primary school in Falkirk and Cauldeen Primary school in Inverness have made it through to the finals for their projects exploring new and exciting ways of introducing mathematics to pupils.
Both schools hope they can progress further and win the award which includes a visit to an eTwinning Camp for teachers and pupils in April 2009.
Find out more about eTwinning project and also Comenius School Partnership.
Celebrate the Success of Scotland’s Schools.
The Awards highlight best practice in Scottish classrooms, celebrate schools and acknowledge the dedicated individuals who devote their lives to helping young people fulfil their potential. Entry to the Awards is open to all publicly funded schools, including secondary, primary, nursery and special schools. Further details of the Awards and the categories can be found on the Scottish Education Awards website.
Nominations are open until 5pm on Friday 27 February 2009.
The French Institute of Scotland is holding its annual inter-school drama competition in French. The aim of the event is to promote the learning of French language through a recreational way. Helped by their teachers and French assistants, the pupils perform a short play in French which may be taken from an original play, adapted from another type of text (novel, short story, poem, tale), or created for the occasion.
For more information download the attached application form: Rencontres théâtrales 2009
Closing date for entries is Monday 16 February 2009.
Le Grand Défi is an annual competition open to Year 7 students in England and Wales, S1 students in Scotland and Year 8 students in Northern Ireland.
Its purpose is to help stimulate interest in the learning of French and to help identify and reward achievement on the part of students.
Students are entered for the competition by their French teacher, and have to sit a 30-minute test. Sponsored by Linguascope, the competition offers a range of fabulous prizes.
Find out more on the Le Grand Defi competition website.
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