Article 30: We have the right to speak our own language.
As part of European Languages Day, the children in Year 6 linked their tasks to Arabic – a common language used in Turkey where some of the children had visited on holiday over the last few years. We also linked our task to our history visit to the Durham Oriental Museum where we looked at artwork.
Islamic-inspired artwork cannot contain drawings of any human or animal, but uses ‘calligrams’ to display writing into different shapes where you may see the shape of an animal if you look carefully – without drawing an actual animal.
Can you identify some of the creatures below?
