Language Ambassadors

Another amazing year for the FSG Language Ambassadors!

Our language outreach programme continues to grow in impact and ambition. Over the course of this year, we have run 16 trips, giving more than 170 Year 8 students their first experience of leading language learning in the community. Alongside them, 32 dedicated Year 10 pupils have sustained their involvement, regularly giving up their lunchtimes to develop their own language skills and support younger learners.

This work directly advances the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Quality Education (SDG 4) and Partnerships for the Goals (SDG 17). Our focus remains firmly on developing our pupils as confident, globally minded learners while sharing these opportunities with the wider community.

Through planning, creating, refining and delivering their own lessons in local primary schools, our students have produced 56 original language lessons this year, reaching over 1,500 pupils. Many of these children are now taking their very first steps into language learning thanks to the creativity, leadership and commitment of our Year 8 and Year 10 students — a powerful example of sustainable, community‑centred education in action.

 We have expanded our outreach in the local area this year to include 13 primary schools with feedback overwhelmingly positive: 

Staff feedback from our primary schools: 

"Very interesting to see the different types of activity that the girls led, and great to be able to motivate our pupils to aspire to use language in this way in their future."

"It certainly made the older pupils excited about the opportunity to learn a new language (Spanish) at secondary school.  It also made them proud to demonstrate what they had already learned in our focus language (French)."

"This has shown our children that learning languages can be fun and that with practice, they can be as skilled as the girls that come in to teach us. The children look forward to the visits and they always enjoy learning aspects from a different country."

"The confidence of the girls is always really good and they are very brave to stand at the front of the class and teach an unknown group of people."

Student feedback from our primary schools: 

"It has been good fun learning what they do at FSG, and it shows if we work hard, we can come back to school as a teacher and teach the younger ones"!

"We enjoyed tasting the foods from different countries and learning what sorts of foods they would usually eat."

"I loved learning about the different celebrations that they have in France and Spain and how they celebrate differently to us in the UK."

"I liked the different traditions that they do and the special names they have for them as they are quite different to our Easter for example."

We are very proud of our students hard work, and it is especially joyous to see them become leaders in their own right, even when they only have a couple of years of advantage on those they are teaching.  It is no mean feat to stand up in front of 32 children and deliver a lesson you have made, but our pupils rose to the challenge as always and left those classrooms feeling 10 feet tall.

Feedback from Year 8 at FSG on their language ambassadors experiences: 

"Doing language ambassadors was a very amazing experience. I loved every bit and especially how much the students liked the lessons and that they all got involved. It was an unforgettable day! "

"I would go back in time and do language ambassadors all over again if I could!"

"Students also reflected on their teaching , including saying things like having games and prizes made the lessons more interactive, ensuring that they prepared the lessons effectively and practiced!"

"It felt really good to teach spanish and see the students apply the skills we taught them"