Today marks the annual celebration of all things languages across Europe. All over the continent people will be celebrating linguistic diversity in fun and exciting ways. In the schools involved in the PiE project various things are happening from the Euroquiz, interviews with famous language-speakers, culinary celebrations, major enterprise and languages events, and an all-school languages celebration with concerts, games and competitions. Photos and stories on the PiE website later.
Happy European Languages Day to you all!
It's so long since we've posted anything on the PiE blog! Sorry! Things have been exceptionally busy over the past few months and we've been working hard to get everything ready for the new term and a new year of PiE activities. Hopefully now we'll be back on track with more posts and information from the PiE project.
The PiE Chinese Summer school begins today and throughout this week we'll be posting all the materials on the blog. There will be downloadable pdfs and audio resources, along with some news and photos from the summer school itself. If you want to learn Chinese with us, access the site all this week!
I've just helped one of our students who is heading off to China tomorrow to set up a blog. A group from Grange Academy will travel to Kunming and they'll hopefully get enough access to the internet to be able to blog their experience out there. Best wishes and safe journey to all the students and staff involved. You can follow their adventures on the Grange in China blog.
Unknown to everyone, there are 4 extra awards being presented this evening -
Achievement in French - Kara
Achievement in German - Rhiannon
Achievement in Spanish - Lisa
Achievement in Japanese - Lesley
And the Award for Best Film goes to... (Drum roll please)..... La Reception de l'Ambassador! "We worked really hard for this, and I thnk we deserved it!"
Congratulations to everyone involved in PiE, especially Mark - it has been a fantastic evening - well done!
REACH 2006!
The Award for the Best Actor in a Leading Role goes to... Euan Graham - Une Semaine de Teunes Dangereuses ... in the words of Euan; "Magic".
Now for some Japanese Blind Date! Yep, you read that correctly, Japanese Blind Date, acted out by our best Scottish talent.
The Award for the Best Actress in a Leading Role goes to... Rachel Jamieson - Frauentausch
A word of advice - never steal Ferrero Rocher! - "Why Monsieur, with these Rocher you are really spoiling us!" - are they really made of gold?
The award for the best actress in a supporting role goes to... Alison Young - CD Francais - tres bien!
The award for the 'Most Game for a Laugh Person' goes to... Scott Galloway - Vive la Boum - quote of the night - "I'd like to say am surprised, but am no..." - class. (Roughly translated - "I would like to say that I am surprised, but I am not" - AB :-) )
And now for the Norwegian silent movie... ssshhhhhhh!
The award for Best Costume Design goes to... La Reception de l'Ambassadeur
And the winner is... Diane Mathieson - CD Francais
The award for Best Animation is awarded to ... Bob the Penguin!
Our next film was the 'Academy for Faries' - why be good, when you can be bad? - Peanut butter and jelly anyone?
Following this, we saw a wonderful animation of a 'Bob the Builder' episode - don't remember seeing that one before!
'Bob the Penguin' - I'm sorry our country is so rainy! (and I don't know anyone who likes midges either ;-))
The Award for Best Voiceover...
The nominees for Best Voiceover are:
'Lofty' Sarah Weir, 'Mor'k Scott Francis, 'Barnie' Natalie Berry, 'Bob' Andrew Ross
...and the winner is...
... 'Mork' Scott Francis - excellent!