Every year people across the world come together to celebrate Languages and the benefits they have had to our lives. St. Aidan’s High schools very own Modern Languages department organised treasure hunts for the junior pupils and speakers from all different walks in life for the senior pupils. Kulwinder Bhumbra from Volvo commented “I think promoting and educating people on cultures, languages and other valuable skills goes a long way”
Mr Bradley Head of Modern languages department commented on the organisation of the event “there is a lot of work and a lot of preparation that goes into organising the speakers, it begins months in advance to make sure we get everything we need. its always a great event and very worthwhile ” . The day brings awareness to the rapid decline in pupils choosing to take on a language to qualification grade and teaches the young people of the many doors having a second language can open for them in the the future. Lorraine Donegan ” don’t brush over languages just because you don’t plan on using it to teach in the future”
Michael McGregor -director of corporate banking at Santander-commented on the importance of these talks for young people ” It’s quite an important session and its something I have been doing for a couple of years because I can give back relative and recent experience of why to choose modern languages, if that can help even one person then that is the benefit from my perspective”
