Challenges & Competitions
Latest Competitions
Express Yourself in Lockdown
We all know that Speaking a language confidently and coherently is an important thing, and forms a critical part of linguistic and cultural development for all learners of languages. One of the impacts of COVID-19 has meant that many pupils have had fewer...
Routes into Languages East 2020-21
All Routes into Languages East 2020/21 projects are now ready for registration and payment: Primary Bee (Y5 & 6) Spelling Bee (Y7) Translation Bee (Y8 & Y9) Language Leader Award (rec.Y9 & above) Languages Challenge (all) LinguaMaths (Y7) Having just...
European Day of Languages 2020: Routes into Languages
Schools in the West Midlands – our colleagues at Routes in to Languages have shared this exciting competition with us to promote, celebrate and raise awareness of European Day of Languages. For more details see here: https://www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/events/european-day-languages-poster-competition-2020
Annual Competitions
French Pop Video
Organised by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni, students compete in age-group categories across primary and secondary
ALL NE EDoL
Annual competition for schools in the UK, organised in the North-East
Have Your Say
Have Your Say is a speaking competition for pupils in Years 7, 8, 9 and 10
German Debating
Debating competition for Year 11 and 12 organised by the Goethe-Institut, London
UK Linguistics Olympiad
Competition for any age, any ability level where competitors have to solve linguistic data problems
Strictly in Isolation
The Stricly Speaking competition has been modified this year for an Isolation edition.
Strictly Speaking
An outline of how to run a Strictly Speaking Poetry Recitation competition within a class, your school or between a group of schools, complete with sample anthologies in three languages.
Language Perfect
Students from across the globe compete to learn vocabulary, verbs and common phrases
Foreign Language Spelling Bee
Competition for Year 7 to practise and improve vocabulary, spelling and memory skills in French, German or Spanish
Foreign Language Translation Bee
Competition for Years 8 & 9 to practice and improve vocabulary, spelling and memory skills in French, German or Spanish