Emilie's Activities for European Day of Languages

This year for European Day of Languages with all her schools, Emilie revisited an activity she used a couple of years ago with Years 3 and 4 based on French greetings throughout the day. The children enjoyed learning different greetings expressions such as ‘bonne après-midi’ etc. Their favourite was by far ‘coucou’! Then they made speech bubbles with their preferred greeting word and we practiced freeze frames with the speech bubbles discussing the importance of body language and facial expressions when  talking with people.

In Years 5 and 6, Emilie created raps (using Autorap) using greetings from other European countries such as ‘hola’, ‘ciao’, etc.

The Dream Carver at Beech Hill

Sally is adapting learning in Spanish to fit in with Beech Hill's creative curriculum,  This week for example, the children  will be revising favourite colours in Year 5 and learning about Mexico and Mexican folk art through reading the story of The Dream Carver to link with their history topic on Tudor explorers

Beech Hill and 500 years of famous women's faces in Art

Year 5 at Beech Hill watched the fabulous 500 Years of female portraiture clip and recapped talking about feelings in Spanish. The class mimed some of the expressions, then went to their tables to choose at least 4 emotions to draw their own emoticons and label. The children then covered up the labels and went round the room to see if  friends could guess in Spanish what had  been drawn.

Making European map bouquets of flowers - Broomfields CP

Kate P and the children at Broomfields CP and at St Margarets CE have been making bouquets of flower maps for their European Day of Languages display.

Year 3 children practiced greetings and linked these to european flags and put them on European flag origami flowers.

Year 5 wrote conversations in different languages and then paced them on the map of Europe, before making their maps in to origami flowers for the school display!

Children received penfriend letters from their link school in France - Cuddington CP

There was much excitement last week at Cuddington CP School, when the children received their penfriend letters from their link school in France! 

Time to write back now!​

World Faces and Emotions at Winwick CP

For European Languages Day Year 6 at Winwick watched the World Faces You tube clip and thought about how  faces can show all our emotions without the need for speech. They then created their own feelings mask using existing knowledge, as well as bilingual dictionaries to find some new emotions.

International Greetings Masks at Barrowhall CP

Joanne Hornby and Janet Wallbank have been busy at Barrowhall CP practising international greetings and making Maori masks to celebrate both the European Day of Languages and Rugby world Cup 2015!

These were some of the international greeting masks Janet created with the Year 3 beginners at Barrow Hall. They sang a greetings song and then had a go at designing the masks using the language we had learnt. Joanne and Janet then put together a display within the school.

Face Frames with Year 3 at Devonshire Road CP, Bolton

Here is some work from the Year 3 class at the school.The Year 3s at Devonshire Road created these face expression frames! They discussed how a facial expression can send a message, practised the French phrases then the children chose their favourite phrase and drew the facial expression along with the matching written phrase.

Devonshire Road CP, Bolton: Emojis for European Day of Languages

Catherine has been looking at how faces tell a story and the way we say the emotion visually but use different words and sounds in different languages.

Here are some emojis from the Y6 class. 

St Philips CE: Take a Bear Home

Sam has started to use a take home French sack, which includes a bear (Pierre), his diary, a book and activities. The child who takes it home over the weekend writes in the diary (using some French words) and takes photos of themselves with Pierre having some French fun e.g. making crêpes. It has been a huge success so far