St Benedict’s Headmaster Andrew Johnson – formerly Head of Modern Languages at Winchester College – makes the case for studying languages.

Guy Sanderson, Headmaster of Eltham College, explains why modern language learning should not be sidelined.

Recently, French GCSE student Jonas Flohr competed in the global Nutty Tilez French online language competition against almost 10,000 other students across the globe, typing target-language words quickly and accurately, in an attempt to be crowned Nutty champion!

Congratulations to the group of gifted and talented Year 8 linguists for coming runners-up in the 'Love Languages Competition' held at City of London Freeman's School on 14th February.

Students with a love for learning languages and experiencing different cultures are reaping the benefits of a new Erasmus+ project involving ​King’s Ely and schools in Italy, France and Turkey.

On Thursday 7 November, Stroud School held its Language and Culture Day. Held every two years, the aim of this day is to promote language, culture and civilisations. The focus of the day was on French, Spanish, German and Japanese languages, however, the school also ran some fantastic activities that touched on other cultures, such as Portuguese, Afrikaan, Turkish, Danish, Punjabi and Chinese /Mandarin.