European Day of Languages - First impressions

Why do we speak different languages?

The scores are in... - Top School in the UK (1-50 students)

4th in the world in our category and top UK school by a long shot - a huge thank you and well done to all our 48 girls who answered just under 114.000 questions. We can't wait for our shiny certificates from New Zealand!

Language Perfect World Championship - 1 day to go!

We're currently 3rd in the world in our category (1-50 students)!!

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Language Perfect World Championships 2011

Tile Hill Wood School is a proud participant in the Language Perfect World Championships 2011 in the run up to this year's European Day of Languages! 50 of our girls have been entered and we're currently ranking 109 out of over 900 schools worldwide so far!

Schöne Ferien - Bonnes Vacances - Felices Fiestas - Buone Vacanze - 幸せな休日

Final lesson of the year in Year 7 German - we made our very own miniature "Schultüten"

Filmkritik - Year 9

Online Safety

As part of an alternative curriculum day, all year 8s had one session of learning how to use google translator effectively and how to give advice on internet safety. They posted their top tips on a lino-it canvas:

Vienna Calling... (Skype)

Here is an impression of our first Skype session at Tile Hill Wood School. We established a link with Frau Langer from the Viennese Health Service to discuss how young people's body image is influenced by the media and the potentially damaging impact of this. We had sent a list of questions to Frau Langer in advance and took turns asking her during our 30 minute session.

Languages've got the X-factor!

Over 70 students from Years 4, 5 and 6 from Mount Nod, Parkhill, Wyken Croft and Leigh Primary schools joined our Year 10 Fast track French girls in workshops on French music which culminated in an X-factor session where students voted for their favourite French music video.