As-tu un animal?

Here is my Wallwisher. Just click on 'Post a Sticky', and write a note about your pet. I will 'approve' your post when I log on, so look out for the message quite soon!

Language challenge!

Look at the post about my pets, called
As-tu un animal? It's at
the bottom of this page.
Can you find the words for HE and SHE in French?
Which one is which? How do you know?
Prize for the first person to tell me at school!

Des lettres et des cartes!

Here are just a few of our letters and New Year cards we received from our 3 French partner schools this month. Merci, et bonne année!

etwinning and epals

Year 5 have been awarded an etwinning label for our Teddy Bear project, and Year 6 classes are both part of the epals network. Both of these websites are part of the Global Gateway, whose aim is to bring an international dimension to education. We are proud of our efforts to bring internationalism into the curriculum and enjoy finding out about our friends in other countries.

6H's partner school in Béthune, north France

6H's partner class is a Year 7 class at a 'collège' which is a secondary school, just south of Calais so quite near to us in England! Here is a photo of the 'Grand Place' which means big square, in the centre of the town. Doesn't it look beautiful! To see some more photos and some information about the town click here.

Year 5's partner school in Burgundy

Year 5 have sent and received letters to their penpals in France. If you would like to have a look at their school and village, click here.

You can try using 'Google translate' to have a look at the text in English if it helps. This is a view of the River Saône and this is the town hall or Mairie.

Regardez!! 6S's French partner school's blog

The teacher of 6S's penpal class at a school in Normandy has kindly sent us the link to her school's blog. There is a focus on the environment, and I really liked the short cartoon films which we can view. Have a look! Click here for the blog, then look for the little cartoon image and click where it says 'ici'. (This means 'here'). The cartoons are called Vinz et Lou - click here to go straight to the website.

Word mosaic

Click here to access a great website where you can make your own words inside shapes like mine here and at the top of the page! Can you tell what words I have written inside my heart? And inside my star?

Teddy and the corresponding project!

Years 5 and 6 have just started projects linking with different schools in France. Year 5 are doing a project with a Teddy, through the etwinning website. He is photographed doing his activities with the pupils. This week he watched them all open lovely letters and New Year's "cartes de voeux" which we were very pleased with. We will soon be sending our French penpals interesting information, pictures, menus and film clips about food we typically eat in our country, and hope we hear about their food soon! Year 6 have received letters too, and are planning their replies. We have two schools which we have linked up with through the epals website.

BBC link

There are lots of fun things you can do at home to help you with your language learning. Click here to the BBC Primary French website, with some interesting activities to help you with your French. If you go to the home page there are lots of ideas like 'phrase of the day', and maybe things the parents might like to do too!

As-tu un animal?

As-tu un animal? J'adore les animaux. J'ai un chat et deux chiens. Mon chat s'appelle Inky et mes chiens s'appellent Molly et Johnny.
Inky a 16 ans, elle est noire et blanche.
Molly a 3 ans, elle est marron et noire.
Johnny a 3 ans, il est blanc.

My display board is in 'languages today'!

Well I have to start somewhere, so here's a picture of the display in school we did for European Day of Languages, 26 September. Two members of staff won prizes for speaking 4 languages on the day, and pupils made 130 minibooks. 'Languages Today' magazine asked if they could print a piece about our activities in their publication, so we're quite proud of ourselves. Well done all!