BLC NORTH WEST ACTIVITY

 

 

Flixton's Got Talent Language Challenge

Sixteen Year 9 Girls from Flixton Girls High School visit their Business Language Champions Smith and Smith PR in Manchester and present their marketing projects to directors Nathan and Jane Smith.

 

St Patrick's Pupils Pitch to DG Consultancy

30 Year 9 pupils from St Patrick's R C High School visited Salford's Innovation Forum and pitched their ideas to DG Consultancy director Delphine Greenhalgh.

 

Sharing their Language Experience

Express Language Solutions (ELS) and Holy Cross College joined forces with RLN NW and organized an event for 80 Year 9 pupils from a variety of schools in Greater Manchester to share their experience with languages.

 

Languages for Export for St Patrick's students

Salford's DG Consultancy's director, Delphine Greenhalgh, shared her expertise with Year 9 pupils at St Patrick's RC High School and Arts College in Eccles during her visit on 17th November.

 

Foreign Languages and Foreign Food are a Good Mix

The benefit of languages in a restaurant chain is shared with students at Christ The King Catholic High School by Operations Director of Il Forno and Sapporo Teppanyaki Restaurants in Liverpool, Manchester and Glasgow, and Il Forno's General Manager, Attilio.

 

The language of hospitality

Students from Archbishop Beck Catholic Sports College from Higherside Community Comprehensive School visit The Holiday Inn, John Lennon Liverpool Airport and The Holiday Inn, Albert Dock...

 

Languages for the Manufacturing Industry

Slater Harrison's sales director, Brian Bogie, shows students from Altrincham Grammar School for Girls how colourful the role of languages can be when working for a manufacturer of speciality paper and card.

 

Languages for Marketing and the Digital Switchover

The benefit of languages in Marketing and PR is illustrated to students from Flixton Girls High School by experts from Manchester's Smith & Smith PR.

 

Languages for Export in the Chemical Industry

Students from St Aldred's Catholic Technology College take a tour of Skelmerdale's Turtle Wax, led by the company's director Khalid Bostan, and learn all about the company and the role languages play in their export strategy.

 

Languages and International Sport

Students from Wade Deacon High School had an unusual French class when players from the Widnes Vikings Rugby Club joined them to share their language skills.

 

Languages for Logistics

Les Wright, director of logistics company Supply Chain Solutions, welcomes pupils from St Peter and Paul Catholic College and shows them what logistics is all about in world trade and how benefiicial languages are for the industry and for his company.

 

The visit took place following Les's talk at the college, where he set a challenge to pupils to find suitable transport for specific products, as he has to do on a dialy basis. And teacher Marie Taylor was pleased to confirm that pupils rose to the challenge!

 

Celebration Event 2009

Business Language Champions celebrated the year's achievements with a friendly networking event in Manchester on 26th May, at which they were awarded their Certificates of Participation..