SENIOR SCHOOL The Best Spanish Lesson! The modern foreign languages teachers at TC strive to inspire our pupils to be enthusiastic, resilient and passionate linguists. To this end we offer an annual trip to a French or Spanish-speaking country, enabling and encouraging our Year 7 and Year 8 language-learners to fully immerse themselves in the languages and cultures being studied. We are proud of all 32 pupils who joined us on this year’s Spanish language tour to Madrid as they consistently demonstrated the positive, open-minded attitude, the eagerness to communicate and the fearless ‘give it a go’ approach that are the hallmark of successful linguists. In the current climate, with a bleak national picture of declining uptake of modern languages at GCSE and A Level, and with language departments at various universities closing down, many academics naturally fear for the future of linguists in the UK. However, the young TC linguists buck that trend and suggest an optimistic future for language-learning. Bev Brazier, Modern Foreign Languages “We did lots of fun activities such as shopping at the Plaza Mayor, visiting the Prado Art Museum, a tour of the Bernabeu stadium, the Estación de Atocha – an old train station in Madrid and Parque del Retiro – a famous park.” Emily Roberts, Year 8
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