The children at the Hampstead Downstairs Children’s House created a very special poster for the school’s 50th anniversary celebrations. The poster shows how to say ’50 Years’ in all the different languages that are native to the children and staff in the classroom:
1. English
2. Shona
3. Gujarati
4. Hindi
5. Dutch
6. Danish
7. German
8. Yoruba
9. Wolof
10. Bulgarian
11. Spanish
12. Polish
13. Hebrew
14. Italian
15. Japanese
16. Turkish
17. Mandarin
18. Korean
19. Russian
20. Punjabi
Parents and staff from the other sites have added to the list:
21. Hungarian (Ötven év)
22. Greek (Peninta Hronia)
23. Welsh (Hanner can mlynedd)
Could you help us make this 50 languages? If you are a parent at the school, please send us the words for 50 years in your language to 50thcelebration@mariamontessori.org.