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Happy European Day of Languages!

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!

PiE at the Scottish Learning Festival

Partners in Excellence are working with LT Scotland and Apple today here in Glasgow at the biggest education event of the year. Two students from East Ayrshire schools have been interviewing people attending the conference and some of the exhibitors. Visit the dedicated website to listen and subscribe to the podcasts. More tomorrow from Glasgow. View more details on the PiE Website.

¡Cuánto tiempo!

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.

Chinese Summer School begins today

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!

PiE supporting China visit

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.

Mandarin Summer School announced

We've just announced our Chinese Language and Culture Summer School which is taking place in July in Kilmarnock. This is open to anyone between the ages of 14-18 who can make it to Kilmarnock for 10am each day from 24-28 July. More information and a flyer can be downloaded from the PiE website.

Full Film Festival report now available

A full review of this year's Film Festival is now available over on the PiE Site, complete with photos from the event and the link to the full photo gallery. Thanks again to AB for all his help on the evening!

Best Film

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!

Best Actor and Actress

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

Truly International

A Spanish film 'Teenage Detectives', spoken in English, filmed in Canada, shown in Scotland - how amazing is this?

Next; Crimewatch - German Style! Please don't have nightmares...

The Award for the Best Presenter in the Senior Category goes to... Amanda Richardson - Aktenzeichen XY

The Award for the Best Screenplay goes to... Romance en la Tienda de Disfraces

... BREAKING NEWS... WE'VE JUST BEEN TOLD THAT SEZER IS LEAVING THE BIG BROTHER HOUSE...

The Award for the Nastiest Villain goes to Eilidh Menzies  - La Reception de l'Ambassadeur

We now have the privilege of hearing Pierre Benoit sing and play (accompanied by PiE's very own Mark Pentleton)

Never steal Ferrero Rocher

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

Best Junior Presenter

And the winner is... Diane Mathieson - CD Francais

Best Animation

The award for Best Animation is awarded to ... Bob the Penguin!

Vote for the best animation!

'Star Academie - Les Animaux'  was our next animation - who needs the X Factor?
We then watched a chilling tale of vegetables competing in a Big Brother type of competition - I'll never look at veg the same way again!

The award for Best Cinematograpy goes to... El Hotel de los Espiritus

S4 film making - Super Samedi - looks like they really wanted to get their own back on their teachers!

This was followed by a animation - ever wondered how the animals felt in the fields next to 'T in the Park'?

The award for the Best Puppetry goes to... 'T dans le Parc'

We now have 'I don't know how to love him' from the musical Jesus Christ Superstar live for us in German - wow - what a great voice!

The award for Best Animated Character goes to... 'Bob' aka Kara

Please vote for the best animation - fext 'FILM + the number of your film' to 81025
FILM 01 - Flash Special
FILM 02 - PieShip Enterprise
FILM 03 - Bob le Bricoleur
FILM 04 - Bob le Pingouin
FILM 05 - Star Academie
FILM 06 - Grande Assiente
FILM 07 - T dans le Parc

go for it! the lines are now open!

The Award for Best Voiceover...

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!