Our partners at Queens College Oxford Translation Exchange are running the Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators 2022-23 and we are encouraging schools in the city to get involved.
This is a translation competition which aims to promote language learning across UK and inspire creativity in MFL classroom. It is free to enter and is for students of French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Spanish in KS3-5. In addition to competition task, teachers receive up to 15 sets of resources for each language on translating poetry, fiction, non-fiction for use in build-up to competition.
- Deadline for competition entries: 3 April 2023.
- Winners selected for 10 geographical areas. National winners selected for each level in each language. All winners and commendations announced on our webpage.
- Teachers can register to receive classroom resources and competition tasks here.
- Contact: translation.exchange@queens.ox.ac.uk
Last year over 14,000 pupils across the UK took part and the feedback from teachers was enormously positive.
When you register you can also confirm if you would like to receive information about the International Book Club for Schools, Re-viewing the World, and Creative Translation Workshops run in schools by undergraduate ambassadors. Please note that the workshops will run in schools in summer term 2023. In-person workshops will be available to schools in certain areas of the UK, and we hope to offer virtual workshops to schools in other areas.
The competition is inspired by the life and work of the great translator Anthea Bell. It aims to promote language learning across the UK and to inspire creativity in the classroom. By providing teachers with the tools they need to bring translation to life, it hopes to motivate more pupils to study modern foreign languages throughout their time at school and beyond.