In Monday’s Assembly, the children were introduced to language trees and how most of the European languages belonged to the Indo-European Language group of which English, German, Spanish and French are members.

As part of their discovery, the realised that Hindi, Bengali and Punjabi also belong to one of the branches from this group. The children also discovered that ‘Maltese’, is part of the same group as ‘Arabic’ and that ‘Finnish’ in a different group to ‘Swedish’ despite the countries being so close!

The main conclusion that the children drew was that ‘Languages may not come from the same root, branch or tree. But we need more than one tree to make a forest’. This week, the Junior School’s challenge is to learn how to say ‘Thank you’ and ‘Hello’ in another language.