Languages Department - German Camp 2024

By Elaine Kelly | Posted: Thursday May 16, 2024

On Thursday and Friday nine Senior languages students joined other Otago schools for an overnight stay at Camp Tirohanga on the Taieri.

Every year representatives from the Goethe Institute in Wellington and several native speaker teachers join this camp to help make this experience as authentic and language rich as possible.

Students participate in several games and activities carefully designed to encourage them to speak as much German as they can. This is an invaluable confidence booster before students embark upon internal speaking standards for NCEA such as speech delivery and interactions with partners.

This year events included a Language and Culture Quiz, learning the camp song, several language games and activities, a German Cake competition as well as some hands-on activities such as making an environmentally friendly version of Nutella. The Goethe Institute was kind enough to supply a few German themed prizes and of course the German food was “ausgezeichnet” as ever!

Students in Dunedin are very lucky to have this opportunity.