Opening of The W. J. Veale Language Centre
16 July 2002
The Language Centre was officially opened on 16th July 2002 by The Earl of Stockton, MEP. Parents, pupils- past and present, representatives from the County and local businesses and pupils, teachers and headmasters from partner schools all enjoyed the opportunity to look around the Centre and afterwards to listen to a talk by the Earl of Stockton. His humour, wit and depth of knowledge did not fail to impress the audience as he spoke on the importance of languages today and developments within Europe and answered a wide range of questions from the audience. Nor could the audience fail to have been impressed by the welcome given to Lord Stockton in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Gujarati, Hindi, Bengali and Mandarin Chinese from our language students- languages which are being taught at Sir Thomas Rich's and feeder primary schools.
The Language Centre, which is named in memory of Mr Veale, the school's headmaster between 1936 and 1957, has five classrooms and a spacious computer suite. Equipped with the Tandberg Divace system, this state of the art multi-media system will provide for more creative learning and teaching.
