Year 7 pupils spent a very enjoyable team building day at Gisburn Forest. The rain didn’t dampen their spirits as they started the day with an orienteering activity. They worked in small groups to solve the clues, with many groups even returning so quickly that they were challenged to find [...]
Year 4 pupils had a wonderful surprise in store for Mme Crook when she arrived for this week's French lesson! A group of them had been working hard on a surprise for her - a French flag made out of Lego bricks. They had been determined to produce something extra [...]
Congratulations to all of our prep children for a fantastic effort in the recent MFL Christmas Card competition. Mrs Buttery had an extremely difficult job trying to choose three winning entries to put forward to the Routes into Languages competition. Spencer in Year Two was chosen in first place with [...]
Both the prep and seniors school pupils have been very excited to participate in the Routes into Languages Modern Foreign Languages Christmas card competition. Here are the Reception children proudly displaying their entries. Results to be announced very soon!
Pupils across the whole school were treated to a week of celebrations to honour this year's European Day of Languages. The children were keen to enter competitions to design a poster, T-shirt or bookmark demonstrating why the learning of languages is both fun and useful. The high standard and fantastic [...]
Year 4 pupils have thoroughly enjoyed putting together colour poems in their French lessons this term. They have used their dictionary skills to search for new words to describe a whole range of things. Some pupils had their pets as inspiration whilst others chose to write about animals in general, [...]
Year 6 pupils have learnt all about the tradition of La Chandeleur in today’s French lesson. Celebrated on 2nd February, they discovered that this was originally a pagan festival. While some say La Chandeleur celebrates the return of sunny days (crêpes symbolise the sun), others say that making crêpes using flour left over from [...]
Reception children have been learning the story of Handa’s Surprise in their Spanish lessons this week. They have been studying the vocabulary for the various fruits that appear in the story, playing games to aid their learning. They were able to confidently explain in Spanish which fruits they liked and [...]
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