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Culture Day 2024 (Part 2)
As part of our BGS Culture Day on Friday 15th March, our ACS and SEAS students organised a hugely successful and very well attended parade and celebration. The event took place after school and began with students visiting food stalls where they were able to purchase a variety of delicious hot and cold food. Following this, students went to the drama theatre where there was a parade - students were invited to participate or spectate. The atmosphere was electric! There was music and dancing and Ify did a super job as the compère introducing the different countries participating. Some students had prepared a special dance which showcased their amazing talent and was very well received by the audience. Nobody wanted the afternoon to end! Well done to the ACS and SEAS and to our Prefect Team who helped with setting up and clearing away. It looks like next year, we'll need a bigger venue!
Mrs Savage, MFL Department
Click on the link here to view the Culture Day 2024 Photo Gallery.
On Friday 15th March we celebrated Culture Day at BGS. Staff and students wore traditional attire or items of clothing representing their cultural heritage and participated in a range of activities throughout the day. Below are descriptions of some of the activities that took place - next week students will report on and share pictures of the fantastic after-school event organised by the ACS (Afro-Caribbean Society) and SEAS (South-East Asian Society).
To celebrate Culture Day, the Language Club prefects hosted a session of International Games. We played Romanian Scrabble, as well as German Bananagrams. It was good to learn about how different cultures play games that are widely known around the world.
Our Year 7 and Year 8 MFL2 students have done an amazing job decorating their books on the theme of the language they are studying. Well done to all students, it was so hard to choose the ‘best decorated book’. Winners were Jessica B in Year 7 for her beautifully decorated French book and Kimran W in Year 8 for an amazingly detailed cover for her Russian book.
at B1 level in the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages), with 100% attendance. I also got 4 ECTS credits, which equates to 60 hours learning. 
In celebration of the 700th anniversary of the death of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri, author of La Divina Commedia - Inferno, Purgatorio e Paradiso, the University of Oxford is running the Dante 700 Competition and more than 50 BGS students of Italian took part in this cultural initiative.
enduring symbols of Japan. You can find it on their currency and displayed proudly on the chests of the country’s national rugby teams. And pretty much every tourist montage of Japan includes masses of the pink and white trees in full bloom. In Japan hanami - cherry blossom viewing - is one of the most eagerly awaited events of the year, with tens of millions of Japanese heading to sit beneath their nearest cherry trees and gaze up at their beauty. With some tasty snacks, too, of course!
The gifting of the tree is part of The Sakura Project, which was launched in the autumn of 2017 during a meeting between the Japanese and British Prime Ministers of the time as a symbol of and means to deepen ties between the two countries. Mr Elphick and Mrs Meyer were guests at the ceremony alongside students from Year 8 – Year 13. 
