School holds Euro day to celebrate languages

PARENTS had a choice of a French croissant, a Spanish omelette or a German sausage at a special parents’ breakfast to celebrate modern foreign languages at Greenbank Preparatory School.

The independent preparatory school in Cheadle Hulme teaches French and Spanish to children from the age of just five years old, has a weekly German club for Year Six pupils and runs a languages workshop for gifted and talented students on behalf of the Independent Schools’ Association for its own and pupils from other schools.

Neil Delaney, Greenbank’s modern foreign languages coordinator, said: “Brexit doesn’t mean we are leaving Europe, rather it demands that the next generation should make much more of an effort to integrate with our European friends.

“As Nelson Mandela said, if you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head.

“If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.”