Principal's Message

Dear Students, Parents, Carers and Families,

INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY

On Monday, it was International Mother Language Day. This day is celebrated each year on the 21st of February. The purpose of this day is to raise awareness of language, cultural diversity and multilingualism around the world. 

The theme of the 2022 International Mother Language Day, “Using technology for multilingual learning: Challenges and opportunities,” raises the potential role of technology to advance multilingual education and support the development of quality teaching and learning for all. 

Through globalisation, many languages are under threat of disappearing altogether but they are a crucial aspect of preserving cultures around the world. At least 43% of the world's estimated 6000 spoken languages are endangered. Every two weeks, a language completely disappears, and the cultural and intellectual heritage is gone with it. 40% of the people in the world don't have access to education in a language that they understand. Therefore, celebrating International Mother Language Day is important because it ensures these languages are not forgotten, as well as keeping the cultural, heritage and history of countries intact. People should be proud of their mother language and want to have the drive to learn more. 

To help celebrate this day, all classes across the school participated in activities based around the day. 

Please see below comments from the students about the importance of the day, and photos that celebrate their learning. 

We do International Mother Language Day so we can say ‘hello’ and ‘how are you?’ in other languages. If you don’t speak another language, you can learn a different greeting. You can say hola, Sata srī akāla, Nǐ hǎo – all of these are hello. – Alisha, Educated Adventurers 

It is important to keep using every language there is. I think this because if you don’t have a language, you don’t know how to speak with others. Ziaullah, Legendary Learners 

International Mother Language Day is a day that we celebrate your language and other people’s language. It is important because you can learn other languages and realise that you aren’t different to other people. Iyaan, Fearless 4Rs

Foundation J students watching an Indigenous story for International Language day. 

Some colouring done by the students in FJ:

Kind regards,

Darren Wallace                    Diane Morwood

Principal                                 Assistant Principal