Pride Moment for Sherborne Girls: Sophie Blewitt features on HMC

Sherborne, England: Independent Day and Boarding School for girls called Sherborne School for Girls extended their pride to see the Head of Languages, Sophie Blewitt, get featured on Heather and Carter’s website this week.

While extending their pride and pleasure to Head of Languages Sophie Blewitt, Sherborne School for Girls highlighted several key points about her on their official social media handle, Sherborne Girls Today, September 27, 2023.

As per Sherborne Girls, Sophie Blewitt, Head of Languages, featured on the HMC website this week discussing culture, linguistic diversity and the importance of learning inside and outside the classroom to become actual global citizens.

In recent conversations with the HMC, Sophie Blewitt, Head of Languages and Assistant Head Professional Development at HMC (The Heads’ Conference)’s Sherborne Girls, also shared why the aim of all pupils becoming positive, curious and respectful global citizens sits at the heart of the school & why increasing their linguistic diversity to become genuinely global citizens is so important to them. 

She writes, ‘One of our Upper Sixth pupils recently told me that the two differences between French and British life that had surprised her the most when on an immersive music trip to France this summer were these: mealtimes were lengthy, relaxed and not merely for refuelling; and, that teacher feedback was not effusive with praise, but focused on what needed to be done to improve.

In a nutshell and in her own way, she had discovered what it means to learn more about another culture. 

French lessons in the United Kingdom are one thing, but using that language to explore another part of the world is another.

In support of this message, this week Sophie has encouraged the school’s staff community, who speak another language (from informal conversation to fluent) to wear a badge saying ‘hello’ in that language in the hope of demonstrating to their pupils that foreign languages are spoken far wider than just the SG Languages Department and are a part of many peoples cultures at home.