Winners of European Day of Languages poster competition

Well done Natasha (Y5) for a lovely winning poster - very creative! C'est fantastique! Our other winners were Sophie Y6, Libby and Sophie Y5, Curtis Y5, Jess Y3, Alex Y3, Kalan Y2 and Emily Y1. Well done to you all, and a really big WELL DONE to everyone who made posters. Check out the display in school and see if yours is on there!

European Day of Languages again!

Create a poster for our European Day of Languages competition - there are prizes on offer. Make it this week, and hand it in next week. Lets get creative and show why celebrating different languages is important.

Olympics 2012 - let's share our learning!

International Mother Language day

This half term we are celebrating all the languages spoken in our school. Lets say hello in a different language every day!

Test yourself in Spanish numbers and greetings!

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Language of the Month challenge!

Spanish - try the BBC website

Click here to have a look at some games and activities, and to listen how to say some words and phrases.

House points for people who can tell me something they learnt in Spanish from this website!!

European Day of Languages prize winners

Well done to everyone who entered into the competition and quizzes last week. Especially well done to our prize winners: Becky (Osprey), Adam (Osprey), Samuel (Eagle) in Key Stage 2 and Oliver (Hedgehog), Britney (Badger) and Amber (Badger) in KS1. Becky heard 24 members of staff speaking a total of 13 different languages - ¡Estupendo!

All about Spain. Have you been paying attention!?

Since starting Spanish, lots of children in Key Stage 2 have been finding out where Spain is on a map. I think I might find some stickers for anyone who can tell me:
1. what are its neighbouring countries called?
2. which continent it is in, and
3. which other continent it is very close to?

Were you listening in class??!!!

European Day of Languages is here again...

Welcome to a new term and ¡Hola! to Spanish in Key Stage 2! Next week is European Day of Languages. Look out for a competition in school on Wednesday(after our Inset days) which will involve lots of staff members, and why don't you have a go at a quiz? Prizes to be won...

Good luck - ¡Suerte!

Bonjour à nos amis en France

On Monday 27th June, Year 5 children will link up with our partner school in France, and chat to each other online as part of Community Week. We want to find out about life in our school communities and look at what is similar, and what is different.

Post a sticky on the new wallwisher!

Spanish for Y4 and Y6!

iHola! This is an exciting moment - Spanish has arrived in Year 4 and Year 6's lessons this term! Here is a bbc website which might help you to practise. Of course all our Spanish club members can have a go too! iAdiós, hasta luego!

Delicious Easter goodies in Paris !

Click here to see some of the wonderful Easter chocolate delights I saw in Paris earlier this week. Miam miam ! This is a lovely shop called Jadis et Gourmande. You can find out what's on offer when you click 'here', (above), then click on 'Collection Pâques 2011' and look at the bells, fish and other things we've talked about in class.

Easter activities, quizzes and games!

Have a look at this website to find out about Easter in France.
This Euroclub schools website also has loads of Easter activities, including an Easter quiz. Have a look, and have a go! Bring your answers in to me in school after the Easter holidays.

Then, choose one of the games below and practise your French and English words. Have fun!

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Y4's thoughts on their finger puppet conversations!

Try this game and improve your French numbers!

Test your numbers 1 to 12 in French with this game!
Click on PLAY, then choose a game.
I think you might like Wordshoot!!
You have to aim and fire at the word which matches the number
at the bottom of the screen. There are different levels which get
harder as you achieve them.
Good luck - ~Bonne chance!

J'aime...... J'adore ...... Win Bons Points for comments

Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année!

Here is the clip of the Pigloo Noël song some of you have seen in class.
It's the one with lots of penguins, singing bits of French Christmas songs.
I have added it here so you can enjoy it again!
How many tunes do you recognise?


Pigloo Noël Collection
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Here are a few links to websites with games, information and activities. I would love to hear from you if you find anything which you really enjoy!

http://www.vivenoel.com/atelier/intro.htm
http://noel.momes.net/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/christmas/
http://www.royaumeduperenoel.com/
http://www.fete-enfants.com/noel-enfants/noel-enfants-puzzle/noel-puzzle-pingouin.htm

Hoping you all have a lovely Christmas
Bonne fête et joyeux Noël - Madame Smith

il neige!

Il fait froid et il neige. Mon chien s'appelle Molly. Elle adore la neige. Moi, je n'aime pas la neige. Bon Point for the first person who can post a sticky on the wallwisher, saying what this means in English!

Spanish is our Language of the Month

..... so let's hear lots of you saying Hola, Gracias, and Adiós in school!

International School Award

We are really proud to have achieved the International School Award. I hope you saw the article and photo in the local paper last week! We have been enjoying lots of interesting activities which contributed to this award, like French Day, World Cup event, European Day of Languages, Black History Month, linking with schools in France and Uganda, and now we are linked with a school in Salamanca, Spain. We will soon be preparing our Christmas cards and film clips about school to send to some of them. Let's keep up all this good work!

Puppet conversations!

Here is a clip of a puppet conversation which Year 5 and 6 pupils were doing recently. What do you think of their dialogue? I was really pleased! Lovely French speaking skills - magnifique!!!

French Christmas songs

Here's a website with lots of Christmas songs, being sung in French by children. They live in Canada, in an area where French is spoken by many people as their main language. I love Petit Papa Noël, which is number 12 on the calendar ('le calendrier').
http://www.csdraveurs.qc.ca/musique/noel/

Bravo! Un prix pour les footballeurs!

What great news this week, when we found out that our girls' football team were nominated, and WON, the prize for the best Primary School team in Mole Valley. Well done girls, we're really proud of you. Bravo! Les champions de foot! Allez les rouges!!! (Bon Point for anyone who can tell me what this bit means!)

Wallwisher for Year 5 and 6 messages!

Language of the Month

Well, we had Portuguese as our first Language of the Month, but it's time to change. So what better than SPANISH, as I've just got back from a really interesting two week trip there as part of my Primary Teachers Project. Some of you know about Pedro, who came on the trip with me, and who loved the delicious 'palmeras' we had for breakfast. I hope to hear lots of you saying Hola, Gracias, Hasta Luego, and Adiós very soon. I'll make sure I have some stickers for people who can use new words and tell me what they mean. Look out for a nice display showing some Spanish things too...

Hello, European Day of Languages !

We are celebrating the European Day of Languages this week, and have a challenge... The aim is to list as many ways of saying HELLO as possible in different languages. Answers written on a page and given to me (or Class Teachers) by Monday 4th October. There will be prizes for the people with the most answers. Good luck everyone!

1GOAL petition - 14,981,231 signatures so far!

Here is a photo of your signatures. When I can work out how to turn it round I will!
We had over 200 signatures and they have been added to the total. Have a look on the send my friend to school website. Almost 15 million people have signed! How many more are needed until we get 15 million...? Find out the up to date tally by looking at http://www.join1goal.org/ and if you missed signing in school you can do it here.

1GOAL

Thanks to (nearly) all the classes at school who signed up to the 1GOAL petition, to show their support for 1GOAL:Education for All. Even better, some people had a look on the 1GOAL website and signed up there. Over 14 million names have been included, which easily beats the 10 million goal over the World Cup, fantastic! Let's now hope we see an improvement in numbers of children who are able, finally, to go to school.