Staff and students at the Bulwell Academy in Nottingham have taken time out to thank three Business Language Champions for their time, input and inspiration during a range of language activities organised over the past few months.

Students were clearly inspired by Romain Baudry, from Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Chamber of Commerce, who shared his own experience of languages and challenged students to plan a journey in France as part of an interactive workshop.

“We had a great time finding out why languages are so important and learning new words we did not know before.”  Said students Decclan and Chanel, whose sentiments were echoed by fellow student Karolina who wrote in a thank you letter to Romain;

“You made us want to learn more about France and French. We really hope that you will come again and talk to us about where you live, where you have been and what you have studied.”

A Flight Sergeant from the RAF, also created a real buzz when he shared his experiences of learning and using languages, as teaching and learning leader for MFL, Germina Jauzelon agreed:

“It was difficult to remove you from those year 8 students who literally surrounded you at the end of your talk, and this is in my opinion absolute proof of how well you connected with them.”

Dr Dalida Chouchi, from Boots, appealed to Bulwell’s budding scientists by talking about the important link between science and languages and Germina was keen to point out how valuable this input was:

“The fact that you come from a scientific background to advocate the case for languages is absolutely brilliant, as this way our students can see that excelling at something opens loads of opportunities, but having a language on top of that makes them really stand out from the crowd.”

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Pictured: Romain Baudry helps Bulwell Academy students to plan a journey in France.