By Amelia Fullerton and Kiara Gaffur
Westlake International Languages Council
Last week, members of the International Languages Council provided a variety of fun activities to get students involved with the different languages Westlake provides.
Monday was French day, where members of the council, including ourselves, walked around the school testing students’ French speaking knowledge and skills, each rewarded with a lolly after.
Tuesday was Spanish day. This day included a Spanish version of the previous day’s French activity. Along with a wonderful stall selling yummy French Macarons, Chinese Pork Buns, Red Bean Buns, Japanese Foods and Spanish Food.
Wednesday and Thursday were Chinese and Japanese languages’ time to shine. Students walked around the school giving out lollies to people who astonished the Language Council with their Chinese and Japanese speaking.
Lastly, Friday. This lunchtime was certainly a blast as students came to A25/A27 to test their international language general knowledge. Being markers ourselves (markers pictured top) it was great to see how many people showed up and gave it their best shot, getting involved in the excitement.
Throughout the week we also had members of the language council going into House assemblies to do quizzes and talking to each House about their languages. Along with this, throughout the week there was an essay-writing competition to get people to write about the importance of learning an international language.
Overall we think the week was an immense success and it was great to be a part of. Hopefully everyone came away with some new knowledge of the importance of learning international languages. We hope to see more people participate next year!
