We celebrated Languages Week Scotland to promote the multilingual classroom. We wanted to highlight Scots as part of the mix in the many languages spoken at Banff Academy, so bairns in S3 and senior Scots Language Classes were encouraged to think about why Scots and other languages are important to us – for the heritage and history of the area (and links with other languages, in the community and with family and friends, and also the importance of young people in keeping a language going. We also wanted pupils to think of all the different languages spoken by their peers in the school. Classes were tasked with finding out about Languages Week Scotland, and then to think of a way of presenting the information in a clear, colourful and informative way for other pupils. Personalisation and choice was key. Some pupils chose to focus on the words they had learned, others about what LWS is all about, and others on what their language means to them, and why it is important in the mix of other European modern languages.
