Grangefield Languages

Another good reason to learn languages??

Many thanks to Miss Bell for suggesting this clip from 'The Apprentice'.

Language World Championships - update!!

Well done everybody - we're 16th at the moment!!!! (Sunday evening).   Fabulous effort! Keep going!  I had an email this morning from the Language Perfect team and some of you have already achieved some certificates! AMAZING !!!!  Allez Grangefield!

Saturday 10th September - 17.29 - Language World Championships!!! (and sport!)

Well done Grangefield!!!!  Keep going !! I've looked on the site at random times and you are all doing a brilliant job - We're 12th at the moment !!!!   So many thanks for all of you for keeping us up there!  I've seen that Lauren, Kyla, Thomas, one of the Devlin twins in year 9 are flying the flag, Ben in year 10, Adam in year 8, Sasha was trying hard, Ryan should know his password, and probably loads more have been on the site, so WELL DONE Grangefield pupils - you are just brilliant and I'm so proud of you all!!!  It's also an exciting weekend for Sports!  The Rugby World Cup kicked off in New Zealand at 9.30 am on Friday - the same time as the Language World Championships - also based in New Zealand.  France beat Japan, England beat Argentina (just!), Scotland beat Romania, New Zealand beat Tonga........  In La Vuelta, J.J. Cobo riding for the Geox cycling team is in the lead with Chris Froome (from GB) riding for Team Sky in second position! The Paris-Brussels one day cycling classic was won by Denis Galimzinov (from Russia), and Sunderland (football) was beaten today by Chelsea!

Mrs Roe's weekly update - week ending 9th September 2011

 Welcome back !

We’ve had a very exciting week ending with the launch of the Language Perfect World Championships today – and some of our year 8’s, one of our year 9 groups and our Key Stage 4 French and Spanish pupils were off to a flying start!!!   We’re already on the leader board, but I have to say that we’re in competition with Australia and New Zealand and their pupils were in the lead, even though they should have been asleep!!!  Pupils have their own usernames and passwords and can log onto the site at any time -  www.languageperfect.com/worldchamps  so come on Grangefield – show us what you can do!!!!   We’ve got an exciting year ahead, with all sorts planned. We’ve had a great week at Grangefield and long may it continue!

Mrs Roe’s classes

8G1 and 8F2 – Language Perfect Championships

9g1 – Language Perfect Championships

9g – German – Find out something about Germany you didn’t know already – about half a page of writing

9f – Spanish – Find out something about Spain – about half a page of writing

10 C – Language Perfect Championships

11Fr -  Language Perfect Championships and speaking questions preparation. 

Miss Bell’s Classes

Year 7 – Visit and explore the languages blog and find the word of the day

8F4 and 8G5 – Language Perfect Championships

9G3 – Learn breakfast food and drink vocabulary

Year 10 Spanish – Language Perfect Championships

Year 11 Spanish - Language Perfect Championships  and final draft of speaking assessment 

Mrs Cox’s classes

8f3 and 8g4 - Language Perfect Championships. 

9g4 - Learn the breakfast vocab.

 Mrs Lindley’s Classes

 Year 7 - Je m'appelle phrases with pictures

 Year 8 - Learn nous habitons rap

 Year 9 - Learn breakfast items,

 Madame Plouchart’s classes

8F1 - complete worksheet on using "near" + place in town

9g2 - learn breakfast vocabulary

Language Perfect Championships - 9th - 16th September !!!!

                       
Last year Grangefield did brilliantly (at least we think so!!) in the European Language Olympics - we were 24th out of just over 100 schools - and a number of our students achieved certificates so we were so proud of them.  This year the competition is world wide and there are over 900 schools in the competition, so the pressure is on!   Last year we entered all our language students, but this year, we have only entered 350 pupils, so we are counting on them!  We have decided to enter all our year 8 language students, 9g1 , and our KS4 French and Spanish students, so we are relying on them to show how good Grangefield pupils are at languages.  All the pupils should now know their log-in details - user names and passwords, so if you don't yet know - please see your language teacher.  We will try to use as many of the language lessons as possible in computer rooms, but other than that we are relying on our wonderful pupils to log on at home.  The CLC is available each evening after school for any interested pupils, as is the library, which could be useful too if pupils don't have access to the internet at home.  To log onto the website please go onto www.languageperfect.com/worldchamps  and then pupils need to type in their own user names and passwords.  Remember - the competition for pupils in Great Britain starts at 9.30 am tomorrow morning - 9th September and runs for seven days.

At any time pupils can see where they are in the competition, in their class, in their school, country and world!!!  So lots and lots of luck to our pupils  in these World Language Championships!!!!