We have a new Twitter Account! 
You can follow us @CN_HSlanguages and we encourage all pupils and parents to do it and keep up with the latest of the department in a quick and easy way.
If you don’t have Twitter, setting an account is very easy and, as said, it will be a very useful to way to keep track of what our young people are doing and learning in the Modern Languages Department, as well as exciting news related with languages!
This podcast by the BBC explains some interesting facts about speaking more than one language. Have a look at it from here or go to the BBC website page where you can also find it.
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Dear students and parents, the National Parent forum of Scotland have released a host of excellent publications and nutshell guides which are very informative in terms of the different qualifications. Here you have it all together NPFS_publications_guide_2015_E
Have a look here If you want to refer exclusively to the Assessment in a nutshell: National Qualifitacions
Have a look here If you want to refer exclusively to the Curriculum for Excellence: the learner journey
Have a look here If you want to refer exclusively to the Progression in the senior phase
PANIC! sorry, what we really mean is DON´T PANIC.
Keep studying and carry on going over all the resources you have – both in paper and digitally.
And if you still need of extra help, don´t forget that the teachers are still around to help you out with what you need.
Have a good and useful study leave S4 and Higher classes!
The Spring break is here (yay!) and the summer holidays are approaching rather quickly (yaaaay!), so you may be considering to do something during your holidays, but you are bored of doing always the same thing. Maybe you want do something useful for others and enriching for yourself at the same time? Develop some skills and meet people you would not meet otherwise? Or even just have fun in a different way, why not?
Well, so you have another option to consider for yourself!
WHO XCHANGE SCOTLAND ARE
Xchange Scotland is a charity set up by young people in Scotland (in Glasgow, as a matter of fact) to help others to see the world and develop communities along the way. Their aim is to offer a world of exciting and accessible international opportunities.
HOW THEY WORK
They are a part of the Alliance network and work with NGO’s in the CCIVS (Coordinating Commitee for International Voluteeriing Service), so they can access their connections to organisations within 50 countries around the world.
I AM NOT SURE I WANT TO GO ABROAD ON MY OWN!
But you don’t have to necessarily do volunteering abroad. One can opt for Projects in Scotland or collaborate in non-formal educational activities.
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE?
To see some most Asked Questions and Answers, you can visit their Q&A section in their own webpage.
Have a look and see if you find something you like or if there is any project, you may click here
“What are the benefits of being European for a young Scottish person?” That was the main topic of this competition set by the Scottish European Educational Trust (SEET) aimed to young students from all around Scotland.
A group of four S3 pupils from Cardinal Newman High School, Holly McIntyre, Louise McCann, Jennifer Wardale and Kelsey Wilson, passed the preliminary phases of this competition, hence getting the opportunity to go to a Day Workshop in Glasgow, on Monday the 14th of March.
Holly, Louise, Jennifer and Kelsey had been working on their idea, storyboard and script for some time, and it was with high excitement that on Monday 14 they attended the Workshop, in the Society M, Renfield st. Only later during the day, they admitted being surprised about the little amount of groups that were finalists with them!
During the morning, there were some basic introductions by the project coordinator, and a short speech of two young European women from Xchange Scotland, who talked about some exciting opportunities volunteering around Europe. After that, a media professional from Glo Scotland gave the pupils some key advices on filming and editing.
The rest of the day was occupied by the girls with the filming and editing of their short film. It was an enjoyable and challenging experience all together, and the girls themselves confessed at the end of it, that they were pleased about their work, although they struggled a bit and were a bit worried at first about not being able to film and edit everything in time.
It was a stimulating and interesting experience all together, and all four, Holly, Louise, Jennifer and Kelsey are excited about attending the Premiere and Award Ceremony which will take place on Monday the 21st of March. They are looking forward to seeing all the finished films and finding out who the winners are.
The Cardinal Newman High School group of 4 S3 pupils, Louise McCann, Holly McIntyre, Jennifer Wardale and Kelsey Wilson, which is participating in the SEET competition has passed to the next phase of the Our Europe competition. They will be going to a Day Workshop in the SocietyM (CitizenM Hotel) in Glasgow on Monday the 14th of March. There they will film their short story about Scottish people being European. After that, they will attend to a Showcase and an Award Ceremony on Monday the 21st of March, in the Scottish Parlament, in Edinburgh. Our best wishes to our girls, but they already deserve our congratulations for having arrived so far
This 4 week free course of Cultural Studies and Modern Languages – University of Bristol starts on the 22nd of February and may be of interest for both, students or parents.
This webpage – Future Learn – collaborates with many universities and hosts lots of very interesting and useful courses.
Have a look and challenge yourself to learn new things!
11 January 2016 (TES)
Parents should consider sending their child on a school foreign exchange rather than spending money on a week in Majorca, a headteacher has suggested.
Young people are likely to learn more on a cultural break in a city such as Madrid or Barcelona than they are sitting on a beach, according to Caroline Jordan, headmistress of Headington School in Oxford and the new president of the Girls’ Schools Association.
Setting up a foreign exchange for students did not have to be expensive, Ms Jordan said.
“It’s trying to convince the parents that that’s good use of their finances as opposed to a foreign holiday to Majorca, where they may well be in a Spanish environment but they’re less likely to be experiencing Spanish as they would be if they were in somewhere like Madrid or Barcelona on exchange,” she said.
“Exchange is very important and we know that languages is a real area of concern in this country. The government is doing quite a lot about this by trying to encourage all children to take a language through the English Baccalaureate.”
A powerful curated selection of short films, all with English subtitles, as well as networking breaks for the enjoyment of both the Ibero-American community and cinema lovers alike.
CinemaAttic’s focus this month is on the consequences of overlooking. Fear in its broadest sense tends to allow people in more or less explicit ways to hide feelings and secrets. The resulting frustration gives us a cocktail of stories moving from thrills to laughter. Argentina, Mexico and Colombia contribute to this winter programme, as well as the work of some of great masters like the Alenda Brothers, Toni Bestard and Eduardo Chapero-Jackson, giving you nothing but the best short film selections coming from Spanish and Lusophone countries.
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