Celebrating Multilingualism: 10 Inspiring Ideas for Languages Week Scotland in Your Primary School

Languages Week Scotland is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate multilingualism, diversity, and cultural understanding within your school community. We’ve put together some ideas for celebrating multilingualism in your primary school with these fun and accessible activities. Below you’ll find some easy to plan ideas to inspire your pupils to engage with languages and learn more about the world around them!

Here are 10 great ideas to get your school buzzing with excitement for Languages Week Scotland:

Conduct a School-Wide Language Survey

Start the week by celebrating the languages already spoken in your school community! Create a simple survey for pupils, staff, and families to find out which languages they speak, what they enjoy about them, and who speaks the most languages. Display the results in a prominent place, using flags and speech bubbles to highlight the diversity of languages in your school. This activity encourages pride in linguistic heritage and sparks conversations about languages. You class could also share their results at a whole-school assembly celebrating languages.

Sing Along to the “Thank You in 50 Languages” Song

Music is a fantastic way to make language learning fun and memorable! Try Lingobox’s “Thank You in 50 Languages” song, available on YouTube. The call-and-repeat format helps even young learners join in easily, and children will love hearing their home languages included. It’s a fantastic way to unite the school and celebrate multilingualism.

Create a Multilingual Audio E-Book

Turn your class into authors and illustrators by creating a multilingual audio e-book! Use an app like Book Creator to compile greetings or key phrases (e.g., hello, thank you, goodbye) in different languages spoken by your pupils. Each page could feature the phrase written in one language, an accompanying illustration, and an audio recording by a pupil or staff member. Share the e-book with families or showcase it on your school website. Here’s an example page from one we made earlier for Ukrainian!

Host a Language Exchange

Empower your pupils to become language teachers! Choose a language or several that your class would like to learn a few key phrases in (e.g., greetings, numbers, or colours). Then, have pupils teach what they’ve learned to another class or year group. This activity builds confidence, promotes collaboration, and fosters a better understanding of how and why we learn other languages.

Hold an Cultural Sharing Event

Invite pupils and families to share a food, drink, music, dance, art, or tradition from their cultural heritage. This event could be a lunchtime gathering, after-school celebration, or even incorporated into a class lesson. Encourage participants to share the story behind their contribution—it’s a beautiful way to celebrate cultural diversity and learn from one another. This also makes for a great way to link cultural celebrations such as Burns Night and Chinese New Year.

Create a Multilingual Welcome Poster

Brighten your school entrance or classroom walls with a poster or display featuring the word “hello” in all the languages spoken in your school. Pupils can research or contribute how to say hello in their own languages and decorate the poster with flags, illustrations, or personal touches. This simple activity helps create an inclusive and welcoming environment for everyone.

“Hello of the Day” Challenge

Each morning during Languages Week, choose a new language to learn how to say “hello” in. Practice it together during registration, assemblies, or circle time, and use it throughout the day to greet visitors or classmates. This activity builds confidence and curiosity in learning new languages and makes every day of the week special.

Run a Big “Bonjour” Challenge

Turn language learning into a friendly competition! Challenge classes or individuals to use greetings in as many languages as possible throughout the day. You could also set a goal to see how many people in the school can be greeted in a specific language, like French or Spanish. Display the results on a tally chart to track progress and celebrate achievements.

Explore Languages Through Art

Combine art and language learning by having pupils create self-portraits that reflect the languages they speak or are learning. For example, they could include speech bubbles with phrases in different languages or add flags and cultural symbols that represent their heritage. Display these around the school to celebrate multilingualism and diversity.

Multilingual Storytelling Sessions

Invite parents, carers, or members of the local community to share a story in their home language with pupils. Pair this with a translated or bilingual version of the story for pupils to follow along. Hearing stories in different languages builds appreciation for linguistic diversity and helps children see the beauty of languages they may not yet understand.

Don’t Forget to Promote Multilingual Learning All Year!

Languages Week Scotland is a perfect springboard for embedding language learning in your school year-round. At Lingobox, we offer a range of resources to make teaching Primary French stress-free, even if you’re new to it. Check out our French Learning Songs and resources for teachers that help bring languages to life in the classroom.

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Explore our full suite of teaching resources, or contact us for a free trial of Lingobox Learning today. We’re here to take the pressure off teachers and inspire children to love learning languages.

Which of these ideas will you try this year? We’d love to hear about your Languages Week Scotland celebrations! Share your stories with us on Instagram or TikTok.

Let’s celebrate multilingualism and inspire the next generation of language learners together!

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