Y5 Spanish fiesta

viernes el 28 de septiembre

As part of their ‘fiesta’ topic, Y5 have immersed themselves in their very own Fiesta! They tried traditional Spanish foods including el chorizo, las tortillas, la salsa, la guacamole y las patatas bravas! After giving their opinions, they then played the traditional Spanish game of Piñata! Muy Bien!

Spanish forest school Y6

Y6 traditional cooking Spanish Paella over the fire.We used a Spanish recipe to translate key words including cooking instructions, ingredients and colours. Everybody worked as a team to add the verduras in slowly (pasito!) and let the rice (arroz) bubble slowly over the fire. We also discussed other paella recipes and differences we could make e.g. by adding seafood or chorizo.After it had cooked, we were able to try the Paella and give our opinions in Spanish. Me gusta mucho! Lots of us then took the recipes home to try again.

Les Super Six

Congratulations to our new Super Six for 2018-19!
Lottie Parker, Eshan Shah, Owen Nazuruk Wheeler, Holly Potts, Holly Haynes and Flo Cavaciuti!
We look forward to all the exciting language tasks you will prepare this year.

Classics morning at Copthill

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Y6 Classics morning

Year 6 had a fabulous morning with the Latin pupils from SHS completing lots of different classics activities together. We started the morning with a Harry Potter based Latin challenge, using Latin roots to understand the effects of spells and learn more about the characters’ names. Following this, Y6 were set to work with Roman Numerals, watching Mr Thomas chisel wood to demonstrate why numerals were the shapes they were and then completing different problem solving tasks. Later in the morning, we studied the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, evaluated Greek pottery and how the Ancient Greeks used these to tell stories before creating our very own versions. We finished the morning in the Classics garden in the (almost Rome-like) sunshine. Bene!

Y6 French Soirée

Yesterday the Y6 pupils and their parents enjoyed a French Soirée evening. Y6  did some French role play to show their language learning this year and shared their memories of the trip before having chance to talk to their parents over some French food and wine (for the grown-ups!)
C'était une très bon soir!

Spring Term Language medal winners

Congratulations to our upper school, Spring term language medal winners:

Y4- Florence Cavaciuti

Y5- Peyton Turner

Y6- Eloise Walker

What a fantastic term of French, Spanish and Latin!

Open day fun!

Open day languages morning 1^st February 2018

Les Super six plus 6 other Y5/6 language stars had an excellent morning of languages activities as part of open day.

We split into groups of 2 and 3 to complete 6 different activities including:

-          French board games

-          Making our own French/Spanish recipe books in the target language as part of this term’s challenge project

-          Chrome book language online challenges (including vocab express and duolingo)

-           French Café role play (avec berets and French euros!)

-          Designing and describing crazy Spanish monsters

-          Introductions to Latin with minimus mouse- super adjective and Latin root work

A super morning! Bien! You all worked so hard with your language writing, reading and most importantly had fun speaking French and Spanish!

Language medal winners

Congratulations to our Autumn term language medal winners:
Y4- Holly Hayens
Y5- Owen Nazaruk-Wheeler
Y6- Jessica Dean

Y6 French Forest school

Y5 have been learning how to describe their town, creating their own local maps and labelling them with the French names. We then moved on to learn directions so that we can make sure we can find our way in French speaking countries! To put our new language to the test, we did a French treasure hunt where we all had to read the French directions to find the next clue until we managed to locate the hidden treasure... Super work!

Y6 Spanish Tapas forest school

La comida- Tapas forest school 21.11.17

Y6 went into the forest this morning to taste Spanish Tapas as part of our 'La Comida' topic.

We tasted Manchego cheese, chorizo, paella, Olives, tortillas, salsa and aioli. 

There was lots of Spanish language used for the food items and many a 'Me Gusta’ heard as we tasted all the delicious food cooking around the fire.

las fiestas!

Year 5 have had an exciting time learning about Spanish fiestas! After researching four key Spanish festivals, we had a forest school session to cook our very own 'Frijoles refritos' refried bean burgers! We cut the ingredients- learning the Spanish names, cooked them on the fire and then eat them giving our opinions! Muy bien et me gusta mucho! 

Les super six have also been very busy with their first official planning meeting. They have decided to create a French and Spanish recipe book full of their favourite recipes in the different languages. They hope to make these themselves ready to sell at a small price so that the money raised can go to a charity of their choice- buen trabajo!