Extra-curricular activities

Our department is working to introduce our students to the role of foreign languages in an innovative way as possible. We hope to make the students understand the importance of being able to communicate in a foreign language, an importance that has both a professional and a personal side.

To this end we organise a wide variety of extra-curricular activities in addition to normal classes through which we hope that our students will use the language skills they have acquired and see how they can communicate effectively in real situations.

Theatre trips: We organise visits to the Felip Pedrell Theatre where theatre groups perform in English. These trips are normally organised in conjunction with other schools of the local area.

All students are required to read in English. They have set texts for each year they are in the school which we hope will encourage them to read in another language. The books chosen are books which we feel will engage them and create a real interest in foreign language literature.

In the same way we also encourage the students to use their time in the language lab to read as widely as possible in both English and French and also to write as well. We teach the students how to register themselves for e-mail addresses, how to create power point presentations, how to participate in foreign language forums and indeed how to create, write and maintain blogs in English and/or French.