Blog by Tag: Foreign Languages

On Friday we celebrated Italy day in school.

We had a non uniform day and some of 9R came dressed in red, white or green.

We tried Caprese Salad - mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and fresh basil, Michael noticed that it was green, white and red like the Italian flag. The classroom…

Today school had an Italian themed day. 10R started the day with using google translate to learn some simple phrases in Italian and share them with the rest of the group. Next our food technology lesson stayed with the theme and we made pizzas from scratch with home made bases. During golden time…

Wow what a week we’ve had!

Lots of work- measuring in maths- we have listened to stories, and had a go at finishing sentences, and creating our own stories in English.

In ICT we discussed online safety and looked at our school ‘whisper’ which is accessed through our school website.

In…

We have had a wonderful day in Sycamore exploring Italy 

It was lovely to see everyone wearing red, green or white. 

This morning we have been learning about Leonardo da Vinci. We found out that Leonardo da Vinci lives in Italy and is famous because of his artwork. We learned that…

Beech class have had a very exciting day exploring Italy through sensory mediums. We enjoyed a dance to some Italian music, enjoyed watching Mrs Banks creat the Italian flag with lots of different Italian foods and then we had a great time exploring the flag with our hands, eyes, nose and mouths.…

Welcome back and a Happy New Year!

7R have lots to look forward to this term. Our new theme is "Food, Glorious, Food". 

Communication, Language and Literacy

In our "Communication, Language and Literacy" lessons we will be exploring the book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald…

Following on from our Spanish work on food and drink last half term, yesterday 11R enjoyed a selection of tapas including frittata, lamb koftas, stuffed olives, lemon and garlic chicken and rosemary and oven dried tomato flatbread amongst other delicious dishes. We were also given a talk by Chef…

8G "visited" Spain today. Prior to the lesson we had to research the country of Spain, with some of us producing fact files and some of us producing leaflets. In cooking we made Spanish churros and in RE we learnt about the Sagarda Familia.

We pretended to board the plane to Spain and once in…

This week as part of our work on Spanish food and mealtimes, 11R worked very well as a team, cooking some excellent Spanish omelettes and preparing some ‘pan con tomate’ to accompany it. Next week we will complete our work on Spanish tapas when we make ‘patatas bravas con chorizo’ and pimientos dl…

As part of our topic on "Travel Agents" we have been learning about Paris. Prior to today's lesson we researched Paris , with some of us producing fact files, whilst the rest of us used PurpleMash to create a leaflet. 

 In today's lesson we looked at the weather in Paris and discussed the…

This afternoon 8R have made a passport to travel to France, we took a flight around school and arrived in France where we listened to French pop, ate croissants and crepes and identified where in the world speak French. We ended our trip with a game of boules. 

A fab…

We have had a great week in 7G doing various activities for Rainbow Week.

Worm Loves Worm - On Tuesday we looked at the story Worm Loves Worm. The pupils enjoyed listening to the story and talking about our differences and celebrating them. 

Rainbow pictures - We used watercolours to paint…