Les ambassadeurs de Français du primaire sont fiers de vous présenter leur premier podcast réalisé avec l’aide de Mme Bongioanni et Mme Durey.

Restez à l’écoute – notre prochain podcast traitera de l’Escalade.

Next Friday 9 December, the Secondary students will learn about the history of Escalade and its traditions in French lessons and there will be exciting opportunities and competitions to get involved in throughout the week.

At Primary, we invite all students to dress up in their pyjamas on the day. As a tradition, we will also commemorate this event in French by breaking a traditional chocolate ‘marmite’ and sharing this in class.

Although the school follows a nut-free policy, the chocolate may contain traces of nuts. We kindly request that parents of children allergic to nuts provide an alternative treat for their children.

You can read more details about the Escalade celebration here.

Nous avons hâte de partager cette journée de célébration avec les enfants, en français bien évidemment!

Ho! Ho! Ho! We hope you will enjoy this month’s reading challenge ‘The 12 challenges of Christmas’.

Participants can complete the ticklist and hand in to their class teacher once completed. 

We would also love to see some photos of the children completing these challenges, so please feel free to share them with us via [email protected].

All participants will receive points for their house and a reading challenge certificate. 

Happy reading and Merry Christmas!

Our Secondary MFL Team has planned some exciting activities during the last weeks of term to develop linguistic and cultural awareness and to celebrate the successes of the Autumn term:

• Christmas Market Trip to Biel / Bienne next Monday 5 December
• German and Spanish festive cultural activities next Wednesday 7 December 15:30-16:30: please note that there are still 4 places left for the Traditional Christmas baking and decorating, with Mrs McKee. The children don’t have to be learning German to take part.
• Enrichment Days: Languages, Art, Music & Drama next Monday 12 and Tuesday 13 December

Stay tuned for some festive-themed learning photos.

Friday night, after school, all of Key Stage 3 returned to school after a long week of assessments to enjoy themselves at our student-led, Hawaiian themed disco.

From the brilliantly arranged tuck shop, the Polaroid photo station where students could take photos with their friends to the fantastically decked out disco hall where we all enjoyed ourselves dancing to our favorite music, “weeks of planning from our student disco committee paid off!”- to quote a student.

With all the parents upstairs, everybody had enjoyable, exciting experiences, so much so that students want another disco! One person has said “Everybody had an amazing time with all the drinks and snacks we had”. Another reported “The atmosphere outside was amazing and the second half was when the dancing was really at its peak!”. Others commented on the “brilliant decor” and others celebrated the wonderful DJing from DJ Stefan. 

A highlight for a lot of us students was watching the England VS U.S.A World Cup match, with people having fun supporting their favorite teams with their peers – and a bit of friendly rivalry – we are told there was even a signed balloon showing support for England and commemorating the event.

Overall, everyone had lots of fun and people are looking forward to the possibility of their wishes of other events like this one coming to fruition!

Year 8 students have been engaging with a variety of texts exploring the genre of war and conflict.

In today’s lesson we celebrated the role of poetry as something that lives and breathes beyond the page by staging a class recital of Wilfred’s Owen poem Dulce et Decorum Est. We had previously analysed the meaning of the poem and its emotional impact on the reader or listener and today we felt the power of the poem by hearing it come alive.

Each student was assigned a line which they memorised and, after listening to other performances, we recited the poem collectively from memory. The students requested that we film it to share with the wider school community because they were really proud of their efforts and how the performance made them feel; we hope you enjoy it.