Year 7 and 8 MFL students are set their Homework on Language Gym which contains French and Spanish games and exercises to support learning. If you are struggling with your log in, need help making your way around the website, or would like access to a Chromebook to be able to complete the homework, Miss […]
Last week, the Modern Foreign Languages held its first House Competition of the year, to celebrate European Day of Languages on Sunday 26th October. An impressive 235 students took part, with Rescorla blazing to victory with 992 points over Hepworth (927pts), closely followed by Causley (916 pts) and Trevithick finishing four with still a respectable […]
The MFL faculty are running a range of competitions next week (Monday to Thursday lunchtimes) to celebrate the European Day of Languages on Sunday 26th September. See the posters below for details.
During DEAR time Spanish classes in Year 7 and 8 have been reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory () in Spanish. Students read aloud from the text and find vocabulary linked to their current units. They then use this to help enhance their own writing.
This week Miss Mobbs and 7CB researched Cinco De Mayo during Spanish. The students designed their own guitars, sombreros and ponchos and combined their Spanish with mathematics to plan a party for this celebration. Cinco de Mayo commemorates Mexico’s victory over the French Empire at the Battle of Puebla.
More than 300 MFL postcards will have been sent this week to recognise the amazing work of some of our language students during lockdown. We were impressed by the determination of these students, who stepped up to the difficult challenge of learning languages remotely and worked extremely hard to complete every single task set to […]
During this spring term lockdown, Spanish Years 9 and 10 have been working on the topic of Holidays. One of their challenges was to produce a brochure, in Spanish, about a place they have previously visited or would like to visit in the future. Many exotic holiday locations were chosen, such as Barcelona, Benidorm, Madrid, […]
Year 10 French turned into romantics as part of their off-screen lesson before half-term to celebrate Valentine’s Day. They created artistic Valentine cards, calligrams and amazing poems. Year 9 French focused on festivals, the topic they covered during their remote learning. Many enjoyed baking a “galette des rois” for “L’Epiphanie, celebrated on January 6th (Twelfth […]
Year 7 French RRU have been perfecting their lockdown disco dancing. The snazzy five-minute high-energy routine is accompanied by upbeat music and easy-to-follow instructions. It is great for getting up, moving around and keeping warm, as well as perfecting your French! There is a similar one for Spanish and both routines are easily accessible on […]
Despite lockdown, KS3 students are still following the Conti approach for language learning. The programme of study is designed so that every activity and text that the students experience allows them to process and produce each item of vocabulary or grammar many times over in order for it to become embedded in their knowledge. As part of […]
2 Dec 2021
During IAG this week the Year 7 students had the opportunity to listen to people from the local community Read more →
2 Dec 2021
Congratulations to Tilly Paynter, Jessica Murray, Adam Hazucha and Keira Moore – for competing in the area BSGA trampolining Read more →
26 Nov 2021
Dear parents and carers Internal refurbishment works Next week work is commencing on our internal refurbishment works within the Read more →
26 Nov 2021
On Wednesday 24th November, we held the Poetry by Heart in-house competition where we bore witness to beautiful, confident Read more →
26 Nov 2021
Good luck to Keira Moore, Adam Hazucha, Tilly Paynter and Jessica Murray who are all representing the College at Read more →
19 Nov 2021
Year 7 and 8 MFL students are set their Homework on Language Gym which contains French and Spanish games Read more →