Routes into Languages
Competitions 2022

 

Primary Bee
For years 5 & 6
French, German & Spanish

The aim of the Primary Bee is for pupils who have started learning a foreign language ab initio in KS2 to practise and improve their vocabulary, pronunciation and memory skills in the target language (French, Spanish and German).

 

 

Spelling Bee
For year 7s
French, German and Spanish

With word lists informed by the latest research, the aim of the Spelling Bee is for students in Year 7 who are learning a foreign language to practise and improve their vocabulary, spelling, pronunciation and memory skills in the target language.

 

Translation Bee
For years 8 & 9

Offering direct progression from the Spelling Bee competition comes the Translation Bee. Building on the new emphasis on translation and grammatical manipulation etc, the aim of the Translation Bee is for students to practise and improve a range of skills vital to preparation for starting a GCSE course: vocabulary, pronunciation, memory, verb conjugation, tenses, sentence formation.

 

All three Bees run in stages, spanning the school year (officially launching on the European Day of Languages, 26th September), with regional finals (numbers permitting) held in each of the nine regions of England and National Finals held at the University of Cambridge (end of June/beginning of July).

They all enjoy the generous sponsorship of Vocab Express, with free access to their online vocabulary learning platform for the duration of each of the Bees, for the words included in the competition, including the opportunity to perfect their listening skills, using the site’s ever-growing database of audio files.

The national winner’s school in each language will also be awarded a free subscription to Vocab Express for 2023/24.

Unfortunately, now that government funding for Routes into Languages has ended we're having to charge for most of our projects.
More information is available on the Routes into Languages website: www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk or by email to Sarah Schechter: [email protected]

If you'd like to proceed with any of the above competitions, please go to
https://languageprojects.github.io/ and you’ll be sent details of how to register.