We'd like to take this opportunity to thank and congratulate everyone who took part in this year's Mother Tongue Other Tongue multilingual poetry competition in Scotland. The poems we received were inspiring, creative, funny and thought-provoking. We were delighted to receive so many entries and had an incredibly difficult time selecting those we felt were most deserving of a place in the 2017-18 MTOT anthology. Thank you to all who participated!
We are pleased to announce this year’s successful entries as follows:
Mother Tongue
Category
|
Award
|
Name
|
School
|
P4 – P6
|
Winner
|
Julia Wólszczak (Polish)
|
St James' Primary
|
|
Highly commended
|
Rayan Al-Boushi (Arabic)
|
St Albert's Primary
|
|
Highly commended
|
Zinaida Benya (Hungarian)
|
St James' Primary
|
P7 – S1
|
Winner
|
Nora Dhanou Rodriguez (Spanish)
|
West Primary
|
|
Highly commended
|
Bahadar Esakhiel (Pashto)
|
East Fulton Primary
|
|
Highly commended
|
Mohamad Al Chouhel (Arabic)
|
Williamsburgh Primary
|
S2 – S3
|
Winner
|
Erika Aitkenhead (Russian)
|
Kirkintilloch High
|
Senior Phase
|
Winner
|
Danai Nikitea (Greek)
|
Graeme High
|
|
Highly commended
|
Sayma Hossain (Italian)
|
Craigroyston Community High
|
|
Highly commended
|
Anett Ziegler (Hungarian)
|
Johnstone High
|
FE/HE
|
Winner
|
Su Min Lai (Chinese)
|
University of Dundee
|
|
Highly commended
|
Yinuo Wang (Chinese)
|
University of Dundee
|
|
Highly commended
|
Hong Lin (Chinese)
|
City of Glasgow College
|
Other Tongue
Category
|
Award
|
Name
|
School
|
Early Years
|
Winner
|
St Bridget's Early Years Class (Gaelic)
|
St Bridget's Primary
|
P4 – P6
|
Winner
|
Ava Stewart (German)
|
Gartcosh Primary
|
|
Highly commended
|
Kole Murray (Spanish)
|
Moray Primary
|
|
Highly commended
|
Nathan Decuyper (German)
|
Gartcosh Primary
|
P7 – S1
|
Winner
|
Maria Stewart (Irish)
|
St Mari Goretti Primary
|
S2 – S3
|
Winner
|
Emily McNally (French)
|
St Margaret's Academy
|
|
Highly commended
|
Ella Blake, Ashley Forrest, Hollie Speirs, Ilari Tsiko, William Wilson (French)
|
Craigroyston Community High
|
|
Highly commended
|
Harley Ewen (French)
|
Graeme High
|
Senior Phase
|
Winner
|
Maria Dorot (Spanish)
|
Craigroyston Community High
|
|
Highly commended
|
Simi Singh (French)
|
Graeme High
|
|
Highly commended
|
Jasmin Jardine (French)
|
Loudoun Academy
|
FE/HE |
Winner |
Arnault Bembo (Spanish) |
University of the West of Scotland |
|
Highly commended |
Farah Nabila Binti Mohd Zin and Nurul Syakirah Binti Ahmad Ghazali (Japanese and Italian) |
University of Dundee and University of Edinburgh |
Well done to everyone who took part in the competition. It's been a marvellous celebration of the various languages spoken in our communities. You should all be very proud of your work.
To mark participation in the competition, registered schools and institutions will shortly be sent a certificate which can be printed out and presented to pupils who took part. The finalists above will be invited in due course to receive theirs at the MTOT celebration event on 17 March.
Thank you all once again and keep writing!