SIXTY Year 8 students visited Bridgwater and Taunton College to learn about the cultures of five countries around the world.

Students from Bridgwater College Academy, Haygrove School, Chilton Trinity Technology College and Court Fields School in Wellington learnt how to write their names in Greek, how to introduce themselves in Italian, read the Russian alphabet, played heads, shoulders, knees and toes in Portuguese and explored the Berber, Arabic and French culture of Morocco.

The pupils also dressed up in traditional costumes and learnt more about henna hand painting and Russian matrioshka dolls.

College staff were assisted in running the sessions by students from the college’s International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, who shared their creative skills and spoke about their experiences on their recent trip to Morocco.

Irena Hubble-Brezowski, course leader of Modern Foreign Languages at Bridgwater and Taunton College, said the event could spawn more similar days in the future - as well as next year.

“Many students said they would like more opportunities to meet up for joint language activities and we look forward to hosting and meeting them next year,” she said.