European Languages Day
The whole school enjoyed celebrating European Languages Day on Friday 26th September 2025. Each year group chose a European country which they would like to learn more about and dressed in the colours of their flag for the day.
The Hub enjoyed learning about the story ‘The Gingerbread Man’ which originates from Germany. They also enjoyed tasting and exploring foods linked to Germany as well as using paint in spray bottles to create German flags.
Nursery focussed on England and dressed in red and white. They linked their learning to their focus text of the week and enjoyed a fabulous Gruffalo afternoon tea.
Reception had a fantastic time celebrating European Week, with their focus country being Spain. The children looked amazing dressed in the colours of the Spanish flag – red and yellow everywhere! Throughout the day, they enjoyed learning some simple Spanish phrases, trying out greetings like hola and adiós, and even counting in Spanish. One of the highlights was tasting some delicious Spanish tapas, which gave us a little flavour of Spanish culture. It was a fun and exciting way to explore another country and celebrate the diversity of Europe!
Year 1 and Year 2 focussed on Spain linking it to learning Spanish in school when they move into Key Stage 2. We all dressed in red and yellow to represent the Spanish flag. We enjoyed watching some Spanish dancing and had a lot of fun trying out the dances in class too.
Year 3 focussed on Italy. We all dressed up in the colours red, green and white to represent the Italian flag. We learned lots of new facts about Italy, including, what continent it belongs to, the climate, famous landmarks and the types of food and drink they have there.
After, we made our very own Venetian masks. After dinner, we had an Italian food tasting session where we tasted pizza, mozzarella, olives and salami. The children were very brave and tried foods they hadn’t tasted before.
Year 4 focussed on France to celebrate European languages day. We spent the afternoon learning and practising a range of French greetings. We also tried French food including Madeline cakes, baguettes, grapes and lots of cheese including brie, camembert and Roquefort. The teachers were so impressed with how many of us tried something new!
Year 5 focussed on Italy to celebrate European languages day. We looked at the reasons why learning languages is important and also how it is celebrated around the world-we then looked at greetings in 25 different languages and said hello to each other!
Year 6 focussed on Greece whilst also arranging a whole school Macmillan event. They enjoyed researching different Greek footballers, learning some Greek phrases and looking at the differences between Greek and English cuisine.
Take a look at all the fun everyone had below.
