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French Club on Mondays
The year started with a bang as we performed 4 songs and dances for over 200 children at City Hall as part of the European Day of Languages. The day was an exciting mix of performances, quizzes, food tasting and European culture.
During the rest of the year the children are learning incidental French through games, songs, activities and the Internet. French Club has been going well this year, with a lighter approach including lots of active games. All children in Year 5 and 6 are welcome on Monday lunchtimes from 12.55 till 1.25p.m.
Brush up your French here:
BBC French Activities
French for Infants
French Games
At the same time, Year 5 have been learning French in lesson time with Mrs Pope and have been making great progress.
Links with Locquémeau April 2005 (Les Liens avec Locquémeau April 2005)
During the Easter holidays Mrs Pope went to France with the organisation CILT Cymru to forge links between our school and a French Primary School:
Pendant les vacances de Pâcques Mme Pope est allée en France avec l’organisation CILT Pays de Galles pour commencer des liens entre notre école et une école primaire française
Locquémeau Primary School has about 100 pupils in 5 classes with an age range of 2-11 years. The staff and pupils were very kind and helpful and I was able to observe lessons in each class.
L’Ecole Primaire de Locquémeau a à peu près 100 élèves dans 5 classes, agées entre 2 et 11 ans. Les instits et les enfants étaient très acceillants et je pouvais observer des leçons dans chaque classe.
The nursery and KS1 equivalent classes were arranged in a similar manner to our own, and I enjoyed watching them make junk models of fish using Camembert boxes for the bodies! They also taught me lots of finger rhymes which I will be sharing with the French Club this term.
L’école maternelle semblait être comme la nôtre et je rigolait bien de voir qu’ils utilisaient des boîtes de Camembert pour faire une maquette d’une Poisson d’Avril! Aussi, les enfants m’a appris beaucoup de chansons françaises, que je vais enseigner aux enfants du Club Français ce trimestre.
KS2 was much more formal, with individual desks, pencil pots and even glue pots. Each child was expected to stay in his or her seat for the lessons. No Breton was taught in the school and they were interested to hear that we teach Welsh from Reception Class. Year 4, 5 and 6 all had English lessons for 45 minutes twice a week either with the peripatetic teacher or with their class teacher.
Les leçons dans l’école primaire étaient beaucoup plus formels, avec les pupitres à une personne, les boîtes aux crayons et même de la colle individuels. Tout le monde avait du rester dans sa place. La langue bretonne n’y est pas enseignée, et les élèves ont été intéressés par le fait que nous enseignons le gallois aus enfants à partir de l’age de 4 ans. Ils enseignent l’anglais par contre, aux élèves de CE2, CM1 et CM2 pour 45 minutes, 2 fois par semaine. Ils ont une institutrice itinéraire pour ça.
The English lessons were very different, with songs, games and activities very similar to what we use to teach Welsh. We worked out that each school day contained the same amount of work time as our schools, but guess what… they had every Wednesday off!
Les leçons d’anglais se ressemblaient beaucoup à nos leçons de gallois, avec beaucoup de chansons et de jeux. Ils ont les mêmes heures de travail que chez nous …mais ils ne travaillent pas le mercredi!
The children from French club had written introductory letters in French to the French children – something that rather impressed them:
“Ils ont fait un grand effort quand meme!” (“They really have made a huge effort, haven’t they!”)
Nos enfants leur avaient écrits en français pour s’introduire – quelque chose qui leur avait frappée:
“Ils ont fait un grand effort quand meme!”
I left our Website address and email address and they promised to write back to us. We shall continue to write to each other in French club, in French and English, and hopefully we will make some real friends among our Breton cousins.
Je les ai laissé notre adresse internet et notre page d’internet, et ils nous ont promis de nous répondre. Nous allons continuer de communiquer en français et en anglais, et nous espèrons de devenir de vrais amis avec nos cousins Bretons.
This trip was made possible by the generosity of the inhabitants of Lannion who welcomed the teachers from the course into their homes so no hotel accomodation was necessary. A big thank you to the kind couple who not only hosted me, but fed me delicious vegetarian food each night!
Cette visite a été rendu possible par la generosité des habitants de Lannion, qui ont acceulli les institutrices, et donc il n’y avait besoin des hotels. Je dois remercier la famille qui m’a acceuilli si gentiment, et qui m’a donnée des repas vegetarians délicieux chaque jour!
The trip was a superb success, and I can’t wait to teach the children some of the fun activities I was shown during the course. I really hope this twinning project will help us forge links and even friendships between ourselves and the people of Brittany.
La visite a vraiment réussi, et j’attends avec impatience de pouvoir enseigner aux enfants des jeux qu’on m’a montrés. J’espère que ce projet de jumelage aille nous aider à faire des liens entre la peuple gallois et la peuple breton.
French Club on Mondays
French Club has been going well this year, with a lighter approach including lots of active games. All children in Year 5 and 6 are welcome on Monday lunchtimes from 12.15 till 12.45 p.m.
From JUNE Year 4 pupils are welcome. This is the time when we practise for the European Languages Day in September.
Brush up your French here:
BBC French Activities
French for Infants
French Games
At the same time, Year 5 have been learning French in lesson time with Mrs Pope and have been making great progress.
French Club on Mondays
French Club has been going well this year, with a lighter approach including lots of active games. All children in Year 5 and 6 are welcome on Monday lunchtimes from 12.15 till 12.45 p.m.
From JUNE Year 4 pupils are welcome. This is the time when we practise for the European Languages Day in September.
Brush up your French here:
BBC French Activities
French for Infants
French Games
At the same time, Year 5 have been learning French in lesson time with Mrs Pope and have been making great progress.
French Club on Mondays
French Club has been going well this year, with a lighter approach including lots of active games. All children in Year 5 and 6 are welcome on Monday lunchtimes from 12.15 till 12.45 p.m.
From JUNE Year 4 pupils are welcome. This is the time when we practise for the European Languages Day in September.
Brush up your French here:
BBC French Activities
French for Infants
French Games
At the same time, Year 5 have been learning French in lesson time with Mrs Pope and have been making great progress.
Created on 2005-05-17 22:35:24 by webmaster
Updated on 2010-01-28 16:59:30 by webmaster
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