Author: Zoe Gordon, West Lothian Council
This year, the West Lothian 1+2 team has trialled many different approaches to supporting the implementation of the 1+2 Approach, and we decided to support the organisation and running of the West Lothian heat of the 2021 Euroquiz competition.
This national event allows schools to submit teams of four P6 pupils to participate in a quiz about Europe. The quiz has four rounds including geography, history, politics, culture and much more. Round two is the language round where the pupils have to answer 10 listening and five reading comprehension questions based on dialogue in French, Spanish, Italian and German.
Normally the West Lothian heat is held in person at the Civic Centre, but this year, due to Covid-19 restrictions, the event had to be held online. We decided to hold a live West Lothian final and the 1+2 team stepped in to lead the event.
We held two pre-event optional drop-in sessions where we ran through practise questions from previous quizzes, key topics to revise and used our new West Lothian resource “Lingobox” to help with the revision of French and Spanish. These sessions allowed the participants to become familiar with the format of the heat and helped with their preparations. We then did a trial run the week before the heat so teams could practise submitting scores using forms.
Our heat was held on 14 May 2021 when we welcomed 43 teams from 27 schools. St Joseph's Linlithgow were the winning team with an incredible 55/60, closely followed by our runners up – Springfield, Linlithgow and Low Port, Linlithgow with 47/60.
St Joseph’s Linlithgow will now represent West Lothian in the national final, which will be held online on 14 June 2021.
