Fantastic day at the “Moving Forward with Languages” conference last week! Pupils got a taste of what it’s like to study a language at university and tried their hand at translation and interpreting 👏 SCILT Maestra Duffy 👩‍🏫 / Linguist fae Glasgow

Interviews are over and we are delighted to introduce our new S5/6 Language Leaders! These pupils will be responsible for promoting languages in the school and have many exciting ideas and future projects to share with you. Congratulations to everyone in the team 👏✨ St John Ogilvie HS

This Thursday 26th September we will be celebrating International Day of Languages 🌍🎉 This is a non-uniform day to raise money for school funds. Please bring £1 and wear something representing a language or culture. We are excited to celebrate with you! 🇪🇸🇫🇷🇨🇳🇵🇱🇳🇬🇮🇳 @stJOHS

Today we celebrated International Languages Day, and what a day it was! ❤️🌍 We are so proud of the linguistic and cultural diversity that makes our school such a special place. Many more photos and videos to follow 📷 🇪🇸🇫🇷🇮🇹🇮🇳🇵🇰🇵🇹🇸🇳🇳🇬🇵🇱🇺🇦 St John Ogilvie HS

S3 French have been busy creating end of unit posters on the topic ‘ma ville’. How fantastic do they look?! 😍 A small class, with so much potential 🇫🇷🤗

Chinese dumpling tasting went down a treat in our DYW Mandarin class and Wednesday lunchtime languages café with Miss Cui and Miss Duffy Maestra Duffy 👩‍🏫 / Linguist fae Glasgow 🥟🥢 our pupils thought everything was very 好吃 (hao chi) 👍

Pupils in Miss Duffy’s Mandarin class ordered food from around China from their very own Chinese menus, and interacted with Miss Cui, our waitress for today! Great customers and great table service here at DYW Mandarin 😆🥢 Maestra Duffy 👩‍🏫 / Linguist fae Glasgow

Our S5 language leaders delivered a workshop on “The Right to Speak your own Language” for S1 Right’s Day 🌍 the S1’s had a ball and showed off their knowledge of other languages, accents and cultures 👏 we are a very proud department today!

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year of the Snake from St JOHS Languages Café 🐍🧧 We celebrated with dumplings, paper lantern crafts and practicing our chopsticks skills 🥟🥢 恭喜发财 🎉 Maestra Duffy 👩‍🏫 / Linguist fae Glasgow

¡Muchísima suerte to all our amazing National 5 and Higher Spanish students sitting their exams tomorrow! You've worked so hard, shown such determination, and I couldn't be prouder. Go in with confidence—you’ve got this. ¡Vamos! 🇪🇸🏆❤️ St John Ogilvie HS St JOHS Modern Languages

Feeling inspired and energised after attending SCILT’s ‘The Future of French en Écosse’ conference 🇫🇷📚 Exciting -and in some cases difficult - conversations about the role and future of French in our classrooms and beyond. Merci beaucoup #LanguagesMatter #FrenchInScotland #SCILT

Last Friday, the Advanced Higher Spanish group and Mrs Barrie enjoyed a great day out in Edinburgh for the Spanish film festival. We were treated to a Q&A from the film's producer and acclaimed feminist author which inspired us in preparation for the completion of the Portfolio