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West Lothian transition event

Author: Zoe Gordon, West Lothian

On Friday 4 October 2019, Linlithgow Academy prepared and hosted the first 1+2 P7/S1 transition event in the Linlithgow cluster. After months of planning and organisation, Linlithgow Academy welcomed 38 P7 children from seven of their cluster feeder primary schools.

The transition morning was organised by the Modern Languages Department at Linlithgow Academy, led by Elizabeth Knox. Primary and secondary staff, as well as S6 Language Ambassadors from Linlithgow Academy, all supported the event. The P7 children were split into teams and mixed with current S1 pupils for a morning to celebrate languages. This included a French breakfast, a languages/flag/general knowledge quiz, a French treasure hunt and a trophy presentation at the end.  

The children and adults alike said the morning was “magnifique!” with lots of opportunities to chat to pupils from other schools and meet their future French/Spanish teachers. The children particularly enjoyed the French treasure hunt where they had to use prior knowledge and dictionaries to translate objects, then find them and take a photo with an iPad.

The event was so successful that we hope to make it part of our annual programme of transition events.

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