After watching Ferdinand, new S3 Spanish classes discussed the tradition of Bullfighthing and developed their ‘feeling’ meta skills of empathy and social conscience. They created posters to display these feelings! SCHS ModernLanguages St.Columba's HS, Gourock #metaskills #skillsforthefuture

Our first Professional Reading Group session of the year kicked off today. Focus? ‘Spotlight Assessment’ from the ‘Power Up Your Pedagogy’ handbook 5⭐️ Schools . Thank you to the staff who engaged in the discussion! 💬 SCHS Clpl St.Columba's HS, Gourock Mr Stoddart

Happy International Literacy Day! 📚 I’ve just started reading The Beach by Alex Garland. Looking forward to reading what happens! #SCHSILD

Happy European Day of Languages! S1 & S2, check your Teams pages. There are some special #EuropeanDayofLanguages activities on there for you. Here’s a video from Scottish Government employees in Brussels. Why are languages important to you? St.Columba's HS, Gourock SCHS Clpl

Our BSL Christmas door is ready! Well done to our BSL Skills for the Future class for all of their hard work. Come along to the languages department to learn some festive signs! St.Columba's HS, Gourock SCHS Clpl #BSL

2L working together on some pyramid translations! They loved it! Working together to translate and pronounce phrases correctly. Bravo! 🇫🇷 SCHS ModernLanguages St.Columba's HS, Gourock

What a lovely walk up to Tower Hill with @SCHSMrsSullivan at lunch today. I can’t believe I’ve never been before! 😍

What a fun afternoon of Barista training last week. It’s always fun learning new things, especially when they taste so good! Thank you @MissOD_re ! ☕️

S2 had a great time playing ‘Guess Who’ in Spanish yesterday. Lots of talking and listening practice! 🇪🇸 St.Columba's HS, Gourock

S1 pupils were leading learning this week as they practiced their French phonics! 🇫🇷 It’s brilliant to have such enthusiastic volunteers! SCHS ModernLanguages St.Columba's HS, Gourock

BSL Club is up and running! Thank you to our S4 pupils for passing on their knowledge to our new BGE members. See you next Friday at lunchtime! 👋🏼 St.Columba's HS, Gourock

S1L worked so hard this afternoon working out this Tangled Translation. Bravo! 🇫🇷👍🏼 Team work makes the dream work! SCHS ModernLanguages St.Columba's HS, Gourock Dr Gianfranco Conti

Our S1 classes have been doing some outdoor learning this week, thinking about different autumnal colours, shapes and objects. All in French of course! 🇫🇷 What a great start to Season of Creation and our Harvest celebrations. St.Columba's HS, Gourock #article31 #seasonofcreation #LfS

A massive ‘thank you!’ to Marta & Diba who kindly volunteered to come and chat to S1 about their language learning journeys as part of our European Day of Languages celebrations. SCHS ModernLanguages St.Columba's HS, Gourock SCHS Clpl

1L had a great time doing pyramid translations today! The referees were very strict with pronunciation! Bravo 🤩 🇫🇷 SCHS ModernLanguages St.Columba's HS, Gourock

Our BSL pupils had a lovely time on their signing walk this morning; practising their finger spelling and learning new sports up at the pitch. Great effort! SCHS ModernLanguages St.Columba's HS, Gourock #bsl

A very interesting piece of listening for our Spanish pupils! 🇪🇸

The competition was fierce yesterday as 2M completed a Pyramid Translation activity. Our referees were very strict with pronunciation! Bravo! 🤩 🇫🇷👏🏼 SCHS ModernLanguages St.Columba's HS, Gourock

2M enjoying some outdoor learning whilst working through some Pyramid Translations yesterday. The referees were very strict about pronunciation! Bravo! 🤩🇫🇷 SCHS ModernLanguages St.Columba's HS, Gourock

S1 loved working together and using their Organisation skills to complete a Murder Mystery task in Spanish recently! ¡Bravo! 🇪🇸 SCHS ModernLanguages St.Columba's HS, Gourock