Languages

Maisie Chan

Maisie Chan

Last week an award winning author, Maisie Chan, visited our school and delivered an interesting workshop for Year 3. Maisie talked about her series Tiger Warrior, she taught the children about the Chinese Zodiac animals and their superpowers. Then, the children...

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French Pen Pal

French Pen Pal

This year, whilst in year 5, children are going to be exchanging letters (written in French) with St Marys Whickham. At the beginning of the term, both classes wrote letters to each other and on Tuesday, we received them from St Marys! Year 5 were very excited to...

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Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower

Having written to the Year 5 children from St Marys, Whickham, in French since September, our Year 5 children finally met them for some French related activities, including building an Eiffel Tower from...

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A day of languages

A day of languages

This week we had the chance to work with our Erasmus visitors from Spain, Italy and Romania. The children all learned a song from each group of teachers. We had a chance to ask lots of questions. We also enjoyed our weekly French lesson where we are learning animal...

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Dans mon sac!

Dans mon sac!

In French we have been learning the numbers to 10! We have enjoyed singing songs and playing games. We all enjoyed playing ‘What’s in my bag?’ Where we had to guess the chosen number in...

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Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year

In Nursery this week we have been celebrating Chinese New Year. We have been looking at how the Chinese people celebrate and what they might eat and wear.  We tried eating some Chinese food with chopsticks and then painted a cherry blossom tree.      ...

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