Preschool 12/5 Bonjour!

So you’ve built a den and now it’s time to pretend that den is in another country. The Go Jetters head to Paris today and I know a lot of you can speak French already. Watch this episode and then decide which country you’d like to explore. Go Jetters, Series 1: 1. The Eiffel Tower, […]

FRENCH FOR EVERYONE!

Bonjour, tout le monde! Everyone can still be enjoying their French learning at home, with these resources for singing, activities and games. BODY PARTS It’s our favourite with a link to the song. Heads, shoulders, knees and toes . The robot’s pointer isn’t that easy to see so just to remind you: l’oeil = eye, […]

Monstrously good French in LKS2

Years 3 and 4 have been combining their knowledge of body parts, colours and numbers in French to create some terrifyingly imaginative monsters. They have then been practising their spoken French by describing their monster to their partner or by reading and listening to a description before saying which monster is being described.

Boucle d’or et les trois ours – traditional tales in French

Years 3 and 4 began a new topic in French today – traditional tales. Both classes came together to hear Mrs Peters retell a familiar story in an unfamiliar way. Having heard the story of a small girl with golden hair who helped herself to breakfast in a house in the woods before breaking the […]

Les trois petits cochons

Armed with the knowledge that roughly 33.3% of the English language shares its roots with French through the ancient language of Latin, Y5&6 read a French story! The children were surprised that they could identify so many words and after some detective work actually translate the text! Tres bien!

French Ouch!

I’m French, we have learnt the names of our body parts, and how to tell the doctor what was wrong. Luckily, there were plenty of medical professionals around to mend our wound.

Trouvez-moi… Active French in Years 3 & 4

We’ve been using our French to keep active by playing the French equivalent of ‘Simon Says’, namely ‘Jacques a dit’ in order to practise our parts of the body and classroom instructions. We’ve also been playing a game where the children have to use their knowledge of colours to run and find objects in the […]

End of SATs celebration…

To celebrate the efforts our year 6 pupils put into their SATs tests this week, we went for a party in the park, with ice cream, drinks and crisps (a short break from healthy eating!) The only rule was that the children had to ask for all their food and drink in French! We also […]

Year 1 class assembly

A huge well done to Year 1 for a fabulous class assembly. From a creation rap to the Hungry Caterpillar retold in French, you were all brilliant and put on an amazing performance!

Cartes postales de Londres

In Year 6, we have been writing postcards from London to our [fictional] friends and family in France …