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Languages week

 Language Week, 22 Sep 2025 - 26 Sep 2025, Winscombe, United Kingdom

We celebrate the whole week long, with flags up around school, multi-languages fair, lunch time clubs in mandarin and italian. We do something with every year group - a gouter session with year 7 french, Linguascope challenge with year 8 class, language and cultural quiz with our year 9, flamenco dancing with year 10. Also have a 'world cup' football or volleyball match for all year groups and chalk murals in playground - writing hello and peace in different languages. Lastly, also have our sixth formers going across to the junior school and teaching them different languages - this week they had taster lessons in Russian, Latvian, Czech and German

Venue: Sidcot School (Show On Map)
Target groups:  Pupils Children

Organizer: Sarah Jones
Estimated number of participants/people involved: 500
Address: Oakridge Lane, BS25 1PD, Winscombe, United Kingdom
Contact Name: Sarah Emily Jones

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20 ideas for this year's European Day of Languages

Struggling to find ideas for an event for this year’s European Day of Languages? It can be challenging to organise events that are fun, inclusive, have an educational element and motivate a large number of people. Below are a few ideas to get your creative thoughts flowing, most of which are based on the principle of “starting small to go big”! 20 ideas for activities that can be carried in celebration of this year's EDL.

20 ideas for this year's European Day of Languages

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20 ideas for this year's European Day of Languages



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Vote for this year’s most innovative event!  

To add a further element of spice to the Day, anyone visiting the website can vote for what they regard as the most innovative EDL event. This can be due to its creativity, transferability or just because it truly represents the spirit of the Day. Voting will be open for one month, from 20 September – 20 October, with the winner to be announced in December. There will be a small prize for the organizer of the event which receives the most votes.

2024's 'most innovative event' is
Long live the European Day of Languages/ Vive la Journée européenne des langues

The event received 1900+ votes and was organised by Lycée Alfred Mézières de Longwy, France.

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We were greatly impressed by the creativity and great effort which went into organising the events submitted and would like to thank all organisers of EDL events in 2024.