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Welcome to the Say Yes to Languages Open Day Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to help you to encourage incoming first year students to Say ‘Yes’
to languages when choosing their subjects for Junior Cycle.
Included in this toolkit are a selection of ideas and resources, including the following;
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Tips for hosting open days/nights in your school for incoming first years and their parents
Ideas for engaging the students and their parents with games and online activities
Language passport designed to give students confidence in their capacity to learn foreign languages
Language specific activities for the four main curricular languages taken in Junior Cycle
Languages Connect have a broad range of resources, handouts and videos to help you promote languages
in your school. We have included samples of some of these in the toolkit:
• Brochure for parents/guardians with tips about the importance of encouraging languages as an
important subject choice
• Fun stickers to hand out to students
• Samples of z-folds in French, Spanish, Italian and German
• Posters to help share your language learning journey, skills gained from language learning and the
scope of languages already spoken in your school.
For more information and the latest updates on these resources and many more, check out
languagesconnect.ie or follow Languages Connect on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Instagram.
Best of luck!