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SEET update

Author: Alex Conway, SEET

The Scottish European Educational Trust (SEET) offered its full complement of projects – Euroquiz and Our World – in an adapted online format during the period of school closures. SEET has been incredibly impressed by the hard work and commitment on show from participating pupils and teachers throughout this challenging year.

Euroquiz heats are currently taking place in P6 classrooms across Scotland. The quiz offers pupils an immersive language experience in the language round (with the use of native speakers), as well as an array of questions testing participants’ European geography, history, and culture. Collaboration with Mark Pentleton from RLN and Coffee Break Languages, SCILT and Education Scotland, has ensured questions are accurate, relevant, and challenging for our young participants. We look forward to welcoming representative schools from participating local authorities to the online Euroquiz final on 14 June 2021.

SEET’s filmmaking project, Our World, has also continued throughout lockdown. The project asks S3-S6 pupils to make a short, multilingual film based on the Sustainable Development Goals. Working with colleagues at Screen Scotland, Scotdec and SCILT, SEET has developed a virtual filmmaking workshop for budding young film-makers and linguists. The virtual workshop took the form of exclusive video tutorials, written support documents, a feedback forum, and a variety of quizzes and infographics to help pupils construct their multilingual films in lockdown. SEET has been really impressed by the array of languages on show in the collaborative and individual entries it received, with entries submitted in BSL, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Mandarin this year. SEET looks forward to welcoming participants to the online premiere and awards ceremony on 8 June 2021.

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