#ThinkLanguages 2024
#ThinkLanguages 2024
#ThinkLanguages 2024 continued as a week-long festival style event. 17,500 TY students celebrated nationwide during the week of the 18-22 November.
This was the seventh annual celebration of languages and cultures. The event has quickly become a highlight of the TY calendar and over 200 schools across the country kicked off their events taking part in a range of activities.
Partner Offerings
We teamed up once again with some great partners to offer an assortment of activities to schools participating in #ThinkLanguages Week.
The Department of Foreign Affairs Career for EU strategy kindly sponsored our Champion Team Prize in 2024. Six TY students and two teachers won an exciting trip to Brussels – taking in all the sites and visiting the EU institutions!
Universities across Ireland opened their doors for campus tours, activities and workshops to give TY students a taste of what life is like as a third level language student!
The Irish Film Institute showed foreign language films at cinemas nationwide and also gave schools the opportunity to stream the movies directly into the classroom.
Read more about our partners here.
National TY Celebration of Languages
TY students from right across Ireland came together in a national celebration of languages and cultures, enjoying inspirational talks, fun language-filled workshops and competing against schools nationwide in an interactive #ThinkLanguages Quiz.
TY Students, TY Coordinators and MFL teachers got to run the show and put on a festival of languages in their own school – with lots of support from the #ThinkLanguages Team!
Think Global, Act Local
Schools really harnessed the theme, “Think Global, Act Local,” for their individual events with many inviting an array of impressive local speakers to share their career experience and language journeys. They also reached out to their school and local community to help shine a light on the many cultural personal and social benefits of foreign language learning, using this year’s #ThinkLanguages themes of “Think Global, Act Local, to be inspired by the many languages and cultures that surround them daily.
Champion Team 2024
Beaufort College, Navan were crowned Champion Team of the year, taking home the title as well as an amazing prize of a trip to Brussels.
Four finalists were shortlisted and invited to the Department of Education for the national final which took place in January where they presented learnings and insights from their #ThinkLanguages experience.
The 2024 finalists included Ennistymon Community School, Presentation Secondary Thurles, Nenagh College and Beaufort College. The judges were thoroughly impressed by all teams.