Language

French

Each year Hartstown Comunity School students take part in a school echange to Bordeaux in France. While in Bordeaux the Hartstown students sample French life and can take in some of the local sights, such as Arcachon,The Dune de Pyla (Europe’s highest sand dune), a boat trip on the Baie d’Arcachon, oyster tasting, a visit to the Grand Theatre de Bordeaux, and to the Musee d’Aquitaine to mention just a few. You can click on the link below to visit the Exchange Schools’ Website.

This year, the Irish students went to Bordeaux in March accompanied by Ms. Kelly and Mr.Wade.  The French Students from Lycee Montesquieu school in Bordeaux arrived in Ireland on April 5th and spent almost two weeks (the trip was extended due to the ash cloud!) in the homes of their Irish exchange partners.  As well as attending school, the students went on trips organised to the City Centre, Glendalough, Newgrange, the Hill of Tara, the National Museum and also took part in Irish Ceili Dancing.

For more information about the exchange visit: montyhart.free.fr

French.ie is a portal site created by and for French teachers in Ireland.

German

HCS reach All-Ireland quarter final! 

Hartstown C.S. Team beat Holy Family C.S. Rathcoole in the 1st round of the German Debating Competition!  We then beat Castleknock College in the second round.  Following a bye in the third round, we lost out on a very close decision to Coláiste Eoin, who were the eventual winners. A great achievement by Mr. Kajic and his team. 
Team: Brenda Ademovic (Capt.), Aynuram Yussupova, Aldina Abazi, Adam Gavin, Aldin Abazi, William Clifford. Teacher:Mr.Kajic
We are pleased to welcome our new German Language Assistant Anna Rohde Branderburger to the school.  Anna will work with the German teachers teachers this year.
Congratulations to Aynuram Yussupova on winning a scholarship to study in Germany for a month.  Aynuram’s Junior Cert result in German (grade A naturlich!) was among the top 100 in the country.  Following an interview, she was awarded one of the top ten prizes. 
Plans are well advanced for a possible exchange with a school in Munich.  Watch this space for further details! 

Spanish
This year’s Leaving Certificate Spanish class have the distinction of being the first group to sit Spanish in the Leaving Cert in HCS.  They will benefit from the arrival this year of our first Spanish Language Assistant Max Muntadas Pekkola form Barcelona, who will work with the Spanish teachers.  Plans are advancing for an exchange with a school in Spain.  More news in September!

Japanese

Following the success of the Japanese module in Transition Year, we are introducing Japanese as a Leaving Cert subject for next year’s fifth year students.  Students will be able to keep their Continental language and take Japanese if they wish. 

Eastern European Languages

HCS offers Leaving Cert classes in Russian, Romanian, Polish and Lithuanian.