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Well done Grangefield - despite the wonderful weather, after weeks of rain - we still have some pupils on the site flying the flag for Grangefield. We're now 88th in the world. Can we do better? Bonne chance tout le monde!
Well done to our students - what with exams, other bookings etc, it's not been easy to get our pupils on the site in school time. However, today, we managed to get a nunber of classes on and it was AMAZING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As I write - we're 79th in the world !!!!! We're very proud of that!!!! And ..... Grangefield is first in French in England ................ Wahoo!!!!!!!!!!! Our pupils are very inspired by the site, and this afternoon, our pupils were translating some amazing sentences, and are becoming so motivated to learning languages. Keep up the good work Grangefield!!!! Well done to all our motivated pupils!
The 30 pupils who went to China with our Head, Mr Litchfield, Mrs McHale and Miss Kennedy, are now back in school, and are entertaining us all with their accounts and stories of the fantasic time they had in China! Below are a couple of photos of their time there. This first photo is of our pupils and their Chinese partners outside No 25 school in Shijiazhuang, where the pupils enjoyed activities such as cooking, calligraphy and they even had a tai chi lesson!
This are our pupils in front of the Great Wall of China, and apparently a few pupils managed to get to the top of the wall which you can see in the photo. The pupils had such an exciting time, visiting so many interesting places including the Temple of Heaven, the Boulin Buddhist temple, the Forbidden City, and having new experiences, such as having a rickshaw ride, and I'm sure the memories will be with them for ever! For a fuller picture of all the visits they made with some more photos, please click on the link below, which Mrs McHale wrote during the stay, to keep the parents updated with the many activities their children were doing!
International Festival of Culture – Teesside University 20th March 2012
15 of our year 9 pupils were lucky enough to be invited to Teesside University this week to find out more about languages, the opportunities which are open to you if you know other languages, and to meet other pupils from schools in the area.
In the initial session, we were with many other year 9’s from other schools in the area, and after a great power point about how many languages you can study to a high level in the north east, we were all given cards with a greeting on, from different cultures and you had to go round the auditorium greeting people to find your culture/group, and then the groups all had to find out things they had in common, and much of the feedback was in different languages – amazing! We were then accompanied by Lucy and Olga within our own school group, for a session with Isabel and her colleague to learn more about Russia. The pupils learnt the Russian alphabet, could say and write their own name in Russian, and recognise words similar to English but written in the Russian script. Isabel who led the session has sent me the links we saw(many thanks), so please see them below, including a great cartoon. Isabel has also said that if any pupil has any questions about studying Russian, they are welcome to contact her. Please see Mrs Roe if you need contact details. After refreshments, where pupils were given a Chinese fortune cookie, we went to a session about Vietnam. We learnt some facts about the country from ‘Mi’ and we then attempted to make a paper crane . I’m including the link for the pupils (and me!!!) who found it very challenging!!! http://youtu.be/FSijU52XJ7w. While we were making the cranes, there was an African drumming session was going on next door – what an experience! Many thanks to Routes into Languages for letting us come to the morning – it was much appreciated!
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