BHS Italian teacher, Signora Hoerle, and her students are enjoying their 10-day Italian Exchange trip in Cles, Italy. Pictured below are the Italian and American students enjoying an excursion to a local city in Northern Italy.
This week, BHS Italian teacher, Signora Hoerle, and BHS Associate Principal, Mr. Sheehan, along with BHS retired Italian teacher, Signora Gentile, accompanied 22 students to Cles, Italy for a 10-day Italian Exchange Program trip. Students will be participating in classes at the Istituto Pilati and living with an Italian host student from the high school. … More Buon Viaggio Signora Hoerle and her Italian Students
The World Language clubs ended the school year with the highly anticipated volleyball tournament. After competing against the Italian Club, the Spanish Club beat the Latin Club in the finals with a score of 15-13! Immediately following the volleyball games, the WL students enjoyed some homemade gelato and snacks before heading home after a morning … More World Language End-of-year social event
BHS Latin students win most medals ever on the 2023 National Latin Exam Latin lives at Burlington High School! BHS students once again posted strong individual and collective performances on the National Latin Exam, an annual, nationwide test of students’ knowledge of the Latin language and ancient Roman culture. This year, out of 100 students who … More Mirabile dictu! –
Over the years, the BHS World Languages department has recognized National Foreign Languages Week as an opportunity to explore cultural themes in the language that students study. The annual Cake Wars event has been an exciting opportunity for WL students to highlight a cultural language theme and display it visually on their cake. Check out … More BHS Cake Wars! Day 1
On February 9th, a group of BHS students traveled to Spain with Spanish teachers, Profe DeSousa and Profe Boivin, to participate in the Spanish Exchange Program. Students will be living with a host family for two weeks while attending classes at Collado Villalba high school. During their trip, students will visit the capital of Madrid, … More ¡Buen viaje to this year’s Spanish Exchange participants!
The Burlington High School World Language Department is proud to announce that Latin teacher, Mr. Gregory Stringer, is this year’s recipient of the Classical Association of Massachusetts’ CAM Excellence in Teaching Classics award. The CAM newsletter provided a wonderful write up about Mr. Stringer and why is was awarded with such an honor. Please read … More BHS Latin Teacher, Mr. Stringer, receives the CAM Excellence in Teaching Classics Award
This year’s Italian Heritage Month Project expresses what Italian Heritage means to the students of BHS’ Italian Program. The project is displayed in the B Hall and its message can best be read when walking “up” the hall, that is, right to left. Italian Club members, who came up with the plan, chose water as … More BHS Celebrates Italian Heritage Month
Today, BHS junior, William Jappe, received the Kenton Wells Book Award for his dedication to language learning and appreciation for the study of cultures, specifically in his Italian classes. BHS Italian teacher, Signora Hoerle, recommended William for his hard work in her Italian class as well as for his excellence in the BHS community, including … More BHS WL Student Receives the Kenton Wells Book Award
Paolo Conti is a Senior at BHS. He has taken Italian for four years and, together with Senior Elena Latsis, he is the Italian Club’s Co-President. Ciao Paolo, can you tell me about your plans for next year? Next year I will be a Freshman at Bowdoin, double majoring in Neuroscience and Italian. I am … More Signora Hoerle & her interview with BHS Senior Paul Conti
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