Grangefield Languages

Some fantastic work by Imran Masood in year 7 (Mme Plouchart's class!)

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Well done Imran!

Shreya Ghoshal - Yeh Zindagi Usi Ki Hain

European Day of Languages - 26th September 2011

Pupils of the week - week ending 23rd September 2011 - Dominic Kamara, Kirsty Chisholm, Ben Ferguson and Zara Bainbridge !!!!

Mrs Roe's weekly update - week ending 23rd September 2011

 We’re really getting into our stride in the MFL department. Now that the Languae Perfect World Championships are over, I have talked to Scott in New Zealand and told him how much our pupils enjoyed the challenge of learning as many words as possible, in many languages , we’re all so proud of our pupils and can’t get over the fact that they achieved 49 certificates – in a week!!! Scott from Language Perfect said that he’ll be putting the certificates in the post soon! We’re now busy preparing for the European Day of Languages on Monday 26th September. Routes into Languages and Miss Bell are running a poster competition for all pupils, for the week, so please look at the many information posters around the school and hand your finished entries to Miss Bell. There is a flag competition which our year 7’s are invited to take part in, all tutor groups are invited to take part in a quiz, which can be found on Fronter. The canteen will be serving European Dishes and snacks from Tuesday to Thursday, so Grangefield school will have a definite international feel all next week – flags are hanging all round the MFL department so thanks to Mme Plouchart for this, and in fact many thanks to Miss Bell for organising the week and the other language teachers for helping!! Miss Bell’s Spanish evening class, which we’re hoping some more of our Grangefield parents will come along to, got off to a great start this week. There are still a few places available – so parents – take this wonderful opportunity to learn some Spanish for your holidays! Please phone the school to find out further details.

Homework

Mrs Roe’s Classes

8G1 + 8F2 – Metro workbook page 44

9G1 – Learn fruit/veg vocab and go on www.ooshop.com  and write price of 10 fruit and veg

9F6 – Write 5 sentences to say what family members have for breakfast

9F5 (2^nd Language Spanish) – Learn numbers 1-20 and 1-100 – Go on linguascope

9G (2^nd language German) – Learn to say name and age and how you are

Year 10 French – Learn revision vocab for test. Write 7 sentences about what you dislike and why

Year 11 – Prepare for speaking assessment

Madame Plouchart’s Classes

7F3, 7G3, 7G4 – Draw a French alphabet poster. For each letter find a French word that starts with that letter, e.g. A comme avril

8F1, 8G2 – Draw outside of a house and write a description of where you live (country, area, opinion and main features)

9G2 – Display homework: Write a 5 day menu and draw the food and drinks for display in MFL coridoor

Miss Bell’s classes

8G5, 8F4 – Learn 6 parts of ‘habiter’ and places from pg 73

9G3, 9F5 – Learn lunch foods + ‘manger’ and ‘boire’

Year 10 – Learn numbers 1-31 and time phrases

Year 11 – Prepare for speaking assessment

Madame Lindley’s Classes

7F4, 7G1 – Bring in photos/toys with labels on showing name and age and present to class

8G3, 8F5 – Learn house phrases il y a and il n’y a pas de

9F1 – Learn presentation

9G5 – Categorise English shops by French name

Year 10 – Learn present tense –er verb pattern and put into sentences

Mr Hussain’s Classes

Year 9 –Make a poster on good/bad weather

Year 10 – Make a poster on personal hygiene

Mrs Cox's classes

7g2 - Learn to spell first and second name in French

8f3/8f4 - produce a plan of a town and label in French

9f2 - Produce a menu in French

9g4 - learn food vocab

9f2/9g1/y10 - Learn Spanish alphabet

Another reason to learn languages !!!

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/272619/Languages-are-the-key-to-romance

Pupils of the week - week ending 16th September - Martin Robinson, Adam Beaumont, Charlotte White and Gabrielle Oxley !!!!

Mrs Roe's weekly update - week ending 16th September 2011

Wow – what a week we’ve had!!!!!!!!!  Grangefield pupils are something else!  The Language Perfect World Championships ended at 9.30 am this morning.  Yesterday, we had three year 8 and two year 10 classes in the CLC working furiously for their language lessons, and then we just had to rely on as many pupils going on the Language Perfect site at home!  And they did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I checked the site at regular intervals yesterday evening, and our pupils were madly learning vocabulary and gaining points for the school.  I woke up quite early this morning, checked the site again, and a solitary Grangefield pupil was on the site!  At registration this morning, one of our pupils, surrounded by the other members of the tutor group, was madly working, and then in first lesson we had about fifteen minutes to maintain our position – 26^th – and we did !!!!! Wahoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  You have no idea how much the pupils were focussed in those last 15 minutes – you could have heard a pin drop!  The count down in the last 10 seconds was amazing!!!!!!!!!!!  Anyway, Grangefield pupils did us proud and we were 26^th in the Championships (9^th in the world in schools category of 250-500 registered pupils – we had 350), 4^th in Great Britain, 18^th in Spanish (7^th in category), 19^th in French (6^th in category), 93^rd in Chinese (19^th in category) and the students achieved 4 Gold, 0 Silver, 15 Bronze and 30 Excellence Certificates.  Well done Grangefield !!!!!!  As a school we achieved 102,877 points, and collectively spent 798 hours learning !!!!!!  In a week – how good is that!  Lots of thanks to the Language Perfect Team for inspiring our students to learn languages!!!

Italian lessons for pupils have just started after school at Ian Ramsey, and these lessons are open to all pupils. Ian Ramsey is also running Latin lessons after school for any year 8 or year 9 pupil who is interested.  Please contact Ian Ramsey or Mrs Roe for more details.  Also, Miss Bell's adult Spanish evening classes start this week. She will focus on 'holiday' Spanish, so parents - if you are planning a holiday in Spain this year - take advantage of this wonderful opportunity!  Please contact the school for more details!

Homework

Mrs Roe’s Classes

7F2 – Find out something about France that you didn’t already know

8G1, 8F2, 9G1, Year 10 – Language Perfect World Championships

Year 11 – Hand in draft speaking assessment

Second Language classes

Year 9 German – Learn numbers 1-20 for test and how to spell them

Year 9 Spanish – Learn alphabet in Spanish and how to spell your name

Miss Bell’s Classes

8G5, 8F4, Year 10, Year 11 - Language Perfect World Championships

Year 11 – Learn speaking assessment answers for controlled assessment

7F1 – Design a classroom instructions poster to be displayed in C10

9G3 – Learn lunch foods and frequency words (e.g. parfois, tous les jours)

9F5 – Learn food vocab and opinions

Second Language classes

9F1 – Learn family vocabulary

9G2 – Revise numbers 1-20 in Spanish

Mr Hussain’s classes

9G – Make a poster about good/bad weather using Urdu

9F – Make a poster about weather using key Urdu terminology

Year 10 – Make a poster on the importance of health using Urdu terms

Second Language classes

9F + 9G – Learn weekdays by heart

Madame Plouchart’s classes

7F3, 7G4 – Learn spellings and meaning of section on greetings in vocab book and finish drawing school items

9F3 – Learn vocab for breakfast food

9G2 – Design a menu for the canteen, including starter, main and dessert

Second Language classes

Write a conversation between celebrities in German, including name and age

Mrs Cox’s Classes

7G2 – Learn greetings and numbers 1-10

Year 8 –Language Perfect World Championships

9G1 – Produce a poster of dialogue between 2 celebs

9F2 – Learn breakfast vocab

Keep going Grangefield!!!!

You are all doing brilliantly!!!!  Just looked at the Language Perfect World Championships website and we have over 99,000 points .............. and are in 22nd place !!!!!!!  FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!  Many students are on-line now  - what a team!!!!  Lots and lots of luck and remember the competition ends at 9.30 am tomorrow morning !!!!!   Keep up the great work !!!!

                                                          

Language World Championships - update - 13th September !!!

                                      
Wahoo!!  Keep going Grangefield!!!!!! 
What a fabulous effort by our year 8's and year 11's this morning, and well done to our wonderful Grangefield pupils who are learning masses and improving their languages as I write - just looked on the website and we're 17th!!!!  Our students have gained more than 76,000 points between them and still rising - many students from year 8 - 11 are madly working as I write.  Fantastic work everyone - you are such stars. More and more of you are gaining certificates!!!  Keep up the fabulous effort!!!!   Also good luck to everyone in the competition and many thanks to the LANGUAGE PERFECT team for inspiring our students!