Mother Tongue Other Tongue 2025-26 winners announced!
Posted on 24/03/2026 16:29:00
News Date: 24 March 2026
News Source: SCILT
We were delighted to host our shortlisted finalists at an online event today to celebrate the languages learned and spoken by young people in Scotland and share their multilingual poems in celebration of World Poetry Day (21 March). Our judging panel had an incredibly difficult task selecting their winners, but we can now reveal the winners in each category and highly commended entries are as follows:
Mother Tongue- P1-P4: Wala, West Primary
- P5-P7: Reynolds, St Paul's Primary
- S1-S3: Mariam, St Joseph's Academy
- S4-S6: Peace, Our Lady's High
Other Tongue
- P1-P4: Sarah, St Michael's Primary
- P5-P7: Vaila, Eaglesham Primary
- S1-S3: Shalom, Holy Cross High
- S4-S6: Beth, Craigmount High
Special prize category ‘play’
- Primary winner – The Glasgow Academy Language Ambassadors
- Secondary winner – Divyanka, Holy Cross High
Highly commended entries:
Primary:
- Ariel, Braehead Primary
- Finlay, Goodlyburn Primary
- Martha, Eaglesham Primary
- Alia, West Primary
- Orville, St Michael’s Primary
- Benjamin, Doune Primary
- Natalie, St Columba’s Junior School
Secondary:
- Divyanka, Holy Cross High
- Riyan, Paisley Grammar
- Katie, Our Lady’s High
- Sofia, Hillhead High
Congratulations to all our finalists and a big thank you to everyone who took part in this year's competition. Where we have permission to publish, we will be hosting finalists' entries on the SCILT website in due course. Watch this space!
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