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S3 French students had a wonderful time watching Mystère (un film français) at the French Institute! Merci beaucoup de nous avoir accueillis 😀 @knoxacademy @ifecosse

This week we sent out pen pal letters from our Higher Spanish class to a high school in Madrid! We love this initiative and we can't wait to receive the replies! ✍️🇪🇸 @knoxacademy

Congratulations to Lammerlaw House for winning the most points at this week's S3 Euro Olympics! 🏆🎖️ More house points will be awarded this week to the registration class that gets the top score in our "Guess the Teacher & Language Challenge"! Bonne chance à tous! @knoxacademy

In celebration of the #EuropeanDayofLanguages, all of @knoxacademy's S3s learners of Spanish & French participated in our competitive Euro Olympics! They cycled through 6 tasks & worked brilliantly! Well done everyone! 👏 @knoxacademyHT @ELCouncil @EU_Commission

Thanks to @scottishcilt for organizing today's conference for students in Higher and Advanced Higher modern languages! 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹🇨🇳 It was great for our learners to get a taste of uni life, learn about pronunciation & translation, and hear from uni language students! @knoxacademy

Yesterday some of our S4 & S5 students of Spanish attended a flamenco show by @flamencoalba as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It was great to be immersed in the folkloric music and dance of Andalucia! 💃 ¡Fue un espectáculo fantástico! @knoxacademy @knoxacademyHT

Happy last day of term to @knoxacademy! It's a tradition in our MFL department for our Highers to play Scrabble in another language and every year, they impress us with their dictionary skills and creativity! 🇪🇸 ¡Que tengan un verano relajante! ☀️ Profitez des vacances d'été!

Our S3 French classes have been preparing group presentations about the French town Aubigny-sur-Nère. They showcased their hard work to reps from the Haddington Twinning Association who awarded winning certificates to 2 groups! 🏆👏 #StudentSuccess #LanguagesInAction @knoxacademy

In Ms. Elder's creative elective class, S1 students have been able to showcase their artistic skills by designing and building piñatas based on Mexican birthday traditions. Students had a great time making and smashing the piñatas for treats!🪅@knoxacademy @knoxacademyHT

Our S1 Spanish pupils have been designing Feria de Sevilla posters. It is so hard to pick a winner! Buen trabajo todo el mundo 👏 @knoxacademy

S3 French had a great time today at @thefrasercentre attending a special screening of French film Divertimento! Merci beaucoup, on s’est bien amusés 🙂 @knoxacademy @knoxacademyHT

It's been a fun week in Higher Spanish! We trialled a new "Buzz In" game that went down a treat! For the first time we played Translation Jenga & the block removal concentration was intense! We also played Scrabble - our students were impresionantes! 🌟@knoxacademy @knoxacademyHT

@MistySBledsoe @knoxacademy That's awesome! It's a great opportunity to give our students, especially learners of languages. It's been so fun to see the reactions of our students to the letters. We can't wait to get more back!

@Knox_MFL @knoxacademy My first pen pal was in the sixth grade. She was from Australia and I was in the United States. This was before the internet, the first time I'd actually "spoken" to someone internationally. Pen pal letters are the best!

Our second set of Higher Spanish pen pal letters is ready to be sent to Madrid! This time one of our students has also taken photos of @knoxacademy to show the Spanish students what our school looks like. Hopefully we'll get some photos of the Spanish school in return! 🤞

This term our S2 French classes have been detectives solving a theft in Paris! 🇫🇷 We've been learning about Parisian landmarks, Arsène Lupin, and vocabulary for describing suspects and a crime. We ended the unit by designing mind maps. We love the creativity! [2/2] @knoxacademy

This term our S2 French classes have been detectives solving a theft in Paris! 🇫🇷 We've been learning about Parisian landmarks, Arsène Lupin, and vocabulary for describing suspects and a crime. We ended the unit by designing mind maps. We love the creativity! [1/2] @knoxacademy

We are SO excited to receive our first Spanish pen pal letters back! 📝 It's been fun to read the letters & learn about school life in Madrid! Our Higher Spanish class have already started writing replies - a nice post-prelim activity! 🇪🇸 @knoxacademy @knoxacademyHT @KnoxDHTs

This week our Higher Spanish class has been practicing their Directed Writing. 📝 They worked in teams to compose sentences and the quality of their writing is genuinely impressive! 👏 Love to see it! 🇪🇸 @knoxacademy @knoxacademyHT @KnoxDHTs

Our first ever set of Spanish pen pal letters is ready to go to Spain! ✍️📝 Our Higher Spanish students have been working on their letters this week and we already can't wait to hear back from our penpals in Madrid! 🇪🇸 @knoxacademy @knoxacademyHT @KnoxDHTs

Today S4 & S5 students of Spanish went to @thefrasercentre to participate in the Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival. We watched "El maestro que prometió el mar" - a lovely film based on a true story. Great to immerse ourselves in the language & Spanish history! @knoxacademy @_ESFF