Celebration event marks five years of school teaching Romanian values and culture in Sandwell
People from the Romanian-speaking community across Sandwell and beyond came together to celebrate a significant anniversary for a school teaching traditional values and culture.
Hundreds of people from the Romanian and Moldovan communities came to the Phoenix Collegiate in West Bromwich on Saturday (June 28) to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Români Uniti Din Anglia (RUDA) Association and the Nicolae Iorga School.
Those in attendance wore traditional clothing, ate traditional Romanian and Moldovan food, watched performances from pupils of the school and celebrated what the school has achieved since being started in 2020.
It was opened by Mariana Plamadeala alongside Laura Elena Suna in Birmingham to offer an integrated method of teaching the Romanian language to children aged between four and 16 years old.
The school was named after Nicolae Iorga, former prime minister of Romania and one of the first diplomats to open a Romanian School abroad, and works to promote Romanian values and combat stereotypes about the Romanian-speaking community through issues of social injustice and cultural and networking activities, as well as community development.
