Foreign Languages News
Language Ambassadors
Welcome to our new Language Ambassadors from Year 6. You can identify them by their blue 'Ambassador' badges, so if you need any help with anything language related, you know who to turn to.
Before the February Half Term, they launched with an amazing whole-school assembly for International Mother Language Day, which they prepared and delivered themselves.
Since then, they have been running lunchtime clubs. They are currently running a mutli-languages club, where we've learned some Romanian and are now moving on to Ukrainian. After Easter, they will be running a Polish Club.
We will also be starting our 'Language of the week', which will begin with Polish, so watch this space!
Merton and Kingston Primary Langauges Competition 2025 - "La Mode"
Well done to everyone who entered this year's languages competition which was on the theme of clothing, and huge congratulations to Elizabeth and Pavithira on winning special distinctions in the Best Poster category. Their posters were in Tamil and Ukrainian. You can see the winning entries below, along with some of the other amazing submissions.
Ukrainian Tamil
Albanian Amharic Gujarati Tamil Tamil
European Day of Languages - Community (Peace on Earth)
This year for European Day of Languages, and inspired by our whole-school book, Peace on Earth, we decide to focus on our school community. We had over 50 language leaders, from Year 2 through to Year 6, some of whom looked fabulous in national costume, and who helped us to learn some words and phrases in their home language.
Each Phase made parts for a whole-school artwork, which is displayed in the hall. We learned how to dance salsa and we practised some African drumming. On top of this, we also got to taste foods from lots of different countries.
Eating together is an important ritual in many countries and we were delighted to have so many parents volunteer time and food to make this possible for the children. The adults were very impressed with the variety of foods the children chose to try and it was hardly surprising with foods from Nigeria, Ukraine, Romania, Sri Lanka, Poland and many other countries on offer. What a treat!
Throughout the day, children were able to read and listen to stories from around the world. Our library has an extensive collection of dual language books that were enjoyed by many. More parents visited classes to share stories, sing and dance for the children. We had an amazing day! Thank you to all our Malmesbury families who made this possible.
Duolingo for schools
Congratulations to all of our duolingo stars, who earned the highest amount of XP in their class over the course of the term. A special congratulations go to Violet in Sycamore class, who gained the most points in the whole of Malmesbury with 19,066 points. Well done to all of you!
We joined children from all over the country in a celebration of languages, by making a short video in a different language. We had lots of different languages, including French, Polish, Tamil, Russian, Mandarin, Arabic and Romanian. Click on the link above to view some of our entries.
European Day of Languages 2018-2023
Some highlights from the most recent celebrations of language and culture at Malmesbury, comprising of Caribbean Cruise Day, Home Languages Celebration Days, Fall of the Berlin Wall 30th Anniversary, Francophone Countries Day and Rainbow Languages Day.
Merton and Kingston Primary Languages Competition 2022
In Year 4, we made up songs about Olympic sports for this bi-annual languages competition. We were so pleased to win Best Song for Cedar class's entry. Well done to both classes for 2 great entries!
Click here to watch Pine Class's entry
Click here to watch Cedar Class's entry
Express Yourself in Lockdown
In the Spring Term of lockdown, when children were learning from home, The British Council organised an event called Express Yourself in Lockdown to celebrate the different languages spoken by children living in Great Britain. We joined children from all over the country in making our voices heard, with entries from all year groups from Yr2 to Yr6. We had submissions in French, Spanish, Albanian, Urdu, Tamil and Mandarin. Click on the links in the pdf to watch some of these amazing videos!
Parlez-vous français?
In July, Year 5 were very excited to be speaking to their French pen-pals on a video-call. Our children prepared a few sentences in French and our pen-pals spoke in English. It was sometimes a bit difficult to understand, but it was nice to see each other. Find out more about our pen-pals on our 'International Links' page.
