Grangefield Languages

¡Adios! Au revoir! ¡Que tengas suerte! Bonne chance! To our year 11's !!!

We had a lovely 'soirée' (or matinée!) with our year 11's today, and said our farewells and wished them lots of luck! Susanna, our brilliant Spanish assistant was here and will also soon be leaving us. Miss Bell brought in a pinata which was duly hit and released sweets (eventually!) Many thanks from Miss Bell and I for the lovely gifts - framed photos, flowers, vin blanc, cards, chocolat, baguette !!!!  We were overwhelmed!  You've been a great year group and the school will seem empty without you. We'll miss you !

LOTS OF LUCK FOR THE FUTURE FROM MISS BELL AND MRS ROE !!!!

Mrs Roe's weekly update - week ending 25th May 2012

Well, how nice to finish the week in glorious sunshine! We've had a great week at Grangefield - our amazing year 11 Spanish students had their final exams in Spanish this week, and so only one more week to go before the year group leave us !  The school will seem strange without them!  The week was dominated however, with the LANGUAGE PERFECT CHAMPIONSHIPS 2012 !!!!!   We have tried to get lessons in computer rooms as much as possible, but being in the midst of the exam season, it hasn't been easy.  However, at least every pupil entered should get the chance to be in a computer room for at least one of their language lessons before the competition ends at 9.30 am next Thursday.  AND SO .................  we're relying on our wonderful pupils going on the competition site at home or after school in the CLC or library.  However, saying that, considering that it's Friday, and it has been boiling hot all day, the pupils were all looking tired, I've just checked on the site and six of our pupils are on as I write!!!   How amazing is that!!!!  At the moment Grangefield is 81st in the world, 2nd in French in England, 7th in Spanish in England, and 3rd overall in England - am....az......ing !!!!   Well done to all our pupils!    KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.  Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could increase our position before the end of the weekend?    Our year 7's have been doing some great film work.  The 7f2 puppet video is below the update, and 7f1 has made a video of weather reports which Miss Bell will show them next week.  Mme Plouchart had a successful meeting for parents about the year 7 Pas-de-Calais trip this week - not long to go before the trip!  Pupils going on the WW1 Battlefields trip in October should return the collective passport forms as soon as possible.  Year 9's are busy with preparing speaking and written tests for their final FCSE module, and some of our pupils will be taking their speaking tests next week.

Mrs Roe’s Classes

7F2, 8G1, 8F2 – Language Championships!

9G1 – Language Championships and prepare for FCSE speaking test next week

9f5 – prepare for the FCSE speaking test next week

Year 10 - Language Championships and prepare holiday paragraph using future tense

Madame Plouchart’s Classes

9G2 – Produce a brochure on an ideal holiday camp. Include sentences using “on peut” (you can)

9F3 – Complete the worksheet on jobs. Part 1 – discover the code Part 2 – what does each member of the family do? Concentrate on agreements

8F1, 8G2, 7G3, 7G4, 7F3 – Go to Language Perfect and earn points!

Mr Hussain’s Classes

8F, 8G – Language Perfect

9F, 9G – Make a poster on means of travelling in Urdu

Year 10 – Draw and label flags of 5 countries in Urdu

Miss Bell’s classes

Year 7 - Log in and earn points for Grangefield on Language Perfect

 Year 8 - Log in and earn points for Grangefield on Language Perfect

 9F/9G - Learn Level 4/5/6 sentences for FCSE writing exam off by heart

 Year 10 - Log in and earn points for Grangefield on Language Perfect

 Year 11 - Final revision for reading exam on Friday 25 May 

 MUY BIEN HECHO A MIS YEAR 11 – HABÉIS TRABAJADO MUY DURO DURANTE LOS ÚLTIMOS DOS AÑOS. ESTOY MUY MUY ORGULLOSA!!!!

Mrs Roe's weekly update - week ending 18th May 2012

The year 11 pupils had their final exams in French and Urdu this week, so we wish them all the best for the rest of their exams.  Lots of luck to our year 11 Spanish students who have their listening and reading exams next week.  Also, this week, which is really exciting, we registered our pupils for the 2012 Language Perfect Championships!!!!!!!!!   The warm up is this week, although we have only just registered our pupils, and we have entered all of our year 7 pupils, year 8 pupils, 9g1 and year 10 French and Spanish students.  So we’re relying on them on to ‘fly the flag’ for Grangefield!!!!  All the pupils now know their user names and passwords.  So all they have to do is click on the following link http://www.languageperfect.com/ and then the pupils should know what to do from there!!!  We’re really hoping that as many pupils as possible will get to know the site and be ready and raring to go for 9.30 am on Monday 21^st May and the competition runs until a week the following Thursday at 9.30 am.  The competition is the brain child of Craig in New Zealand, and the competition finishes there at the same time – only it’s 9.30 pm.   We had a meeting this week for all the pupils going on the French/History trip to the Amiens and the Somme area in October this year.  We gave out some more passport forms for the collective passport, so please could all parents complete and return the form as soon as they can, so we can apply for the passport.  Final payment for the trip is due on or before 6^th July 2012.  At the meeting, some of the pupils asked to see the initial power point we made for the trip, so I’ve included it below.  As I write this, the Olympic Flame has just arrived in England, and in fact it passes Grangefield later in June !!!!!!

Miss Bell’s Classes

Y8 – Warm up for language perfect

Y9 – Learn jobs vocabulary

Y10 – Learn 20 money-related words (incl verbs)

Y11 – Revision for reading and listening exams

Madame Plouchart’s Classes

8F1 8G2 – Find out size in metric

8F1 – Language Perfect Championships login and earn points

7G3, 7F3 – Learn new phrases of hobbies. Interview 3 people – qu’est-ce que tu aimes faire?

Mr Hussain’s Classes

8F, 8G – Learn to describe your hobbies in 3-4 sentences

9G – Make a poster or flow diagram for stages in education

Y10 – Learn vocabulary for weather topic. Practice by writing

Y11 – Revise for reading exams

Mrs Roe’s classes

8F – Revise for assessment and warm up for language championships

9G1 – Revise for FCSE speaking test and do language perfect warm up

9F5 – Prepare FCSE test with cue cards

Y10 – Prepare sentence about holidays and imperfect tense Edmodo powerpoints + language perfect warm ups

Y11- Revise for final AQA reading exam

Mrs Roe's weekly update - week ending 11th May 2012

Once the week starts at Grangefield – it’s so busy, then – before you know it, it’s Friday!   It’s so hectic, but we’re all so pleased with the efforts of our pupils!  Our year 9 pupils are still working hard, and are now preparing for the FCSE speaking and writing tests.  We’re doing assessments with our year 8’s, Miss Bell has been doing some weather report filming, Miss Xu is working hard with pupils for the Chinese club, and the lunch time Spanish and French clubs are also doing well, thanks to our assistants, Susanna and Claire.  With regards the lunchtime clubs next week, please see Mrs Roe for special early lunch passes if you need them.  We have put some wonderful work on the MFL screen in the corridor of some year 8 and 9 pupils, and so well done to those pupils whose work is good enough to be on the screen!  A reminder to those pupils going on the French/History trip – please return the passport forms and provide a passport sized photograph as soon as you can.  Finally, lots of luck to our French and Urdu students and the AQA listening and reading exams are next week. 

Madame Plouchart’s Classes

7G3, 7G3, 7F3 – Draw a poster with what sports you do each day. Learn the 12 hobbies.

8F1, 8G2 – Draw your own family tree with celebs/cartoon characters including name, age, description, personality in a paragraph for 2 people

9G2, 9F3 – From vocab book learn description section

Mrs Roe’s Classes

7F2 – Learn hobbies vocab

8G1 – Write 10 sentences to say what types of film their family prefers and what film they have seen – include genre and opinion

9G1 – FCSE speaking test personality words and write 10 sentences to describe any ten people, friends, family, celebrities.  Extension work – use connectives – mais, aussi, quelquefois, je pense que ( I think that) parce que (because) etc.

9F5 – Learn personality words

Y10 – Write out and learn page about a past holiday – go to Edmodo for more help – all are now registered on Edmodo – so please don’t hesitate to contact me if you need any help.

Year 11 – Prepare for listening and reading exams

Y9 German – Vocab p76 to learn

Y9 Spanish – Prepare café dialogue

Miss Bell’s classes

8G, 8F – Revise for test on family members and parts of the body

9G, 9F – Learn personality words (1-15)

Y10 – Learn list of verbs in the infinitive and their equivalent 1^st person preterite tense – see Edmodo for extra help

Y11 – Continue to prepare for reading and listening exams

Mrs Cox’s Classes

7G2 – Produce poster on famous sports person saying what sport they like to do

8F3 – Complete PPT at home and upload onto Fronter

9F2, 9G4 – Learn leisure activities from FCSE booklet

Year 10 – Written assessment on jobs

Mrs Walker’s classes

7G - Vocab sheet I like + les loisirs test yourself FR-ENG and ENG-FR

10B - Les vacances (past tense) Revision cards in planner

 Mr Hussain’s classes

 8f – poster about the items in the bedroom or any room

8g – poster about the items or objects in any room

9f/g – poster about shopping

Y10 – prepare for controlled assessment

Y11 – revision for exams

Mrs Roe's weekly update - week ending 4th May 2012

 Mrs Roe’s weekly update 

Another busy week at Grangefield!!!!    Activities, lessons all become so intense during the week, and it’s often Friday and the weekend before you know it.   Our GCSE controlled assessment papers were sent off, and it will be the turn of FCSE next week.  Our year 11’s are now in the final stages of revision before the final comprehension exams – keep working hard, year 11’s – I’m sure you can do yourselves proud! At the moment, Miss Bell is planning some links with our feeder primary schools  once the GCSE exams have finished – more on this later!   Letters have gone out to the pupils going on the Battlefields trip in October, so please can parents complete the collective passport form and send in a passport photo of their child as soon as you can.  Not long to the Pas-de-Calais trip and Mme Plouchart is busy making final preparations - I'm sure it's going to be a great experience for our pupils.

Homework

Miss Bell’s Classes

7F1 – Rehearse and learn weather forecast off by heart for presentation on Thursday 10 May.

9G, 9F – Learn 3x “je vais” sentences off by heart

Year 10 Spanish – Log in to Edmodo – download vocabulary list and learn for test on Wednesday 9 May.

Year 11 Spanish – Continue to revise vocabulary (synonyms, verbs, falsos amigos etc)

Homework for Madame Plouchart's classes:

 7F3/ 7G3/ 7G4: design a poster explaining what sporting activities you do each day of the week. For example: Lundi, je joue au foot. C'est super. Draw a picture to illustrate each day. Work can be done on the computer but do not use internet translator.

 8F1/ 8G2: revise for assessment for module 2. Revise from daily routine activities, time, past tense and opinions.

 Mrs Roe’s Classes

8g1 – Fill in gaps in cinema dialogue, write your own and find out a film for each film genre

8f2 – learn the film genres

9g1/9f5 – learn activities (FCSE booklet)

Y10 – write out and learn paragraph on a past holiday

Y11 – revise – past papers, GCSE bite size etc.  Listen to as much French as possible.

Mrs Roe's weekly update - week ending 27th April 2012

We’ve had a busy week, as usual, and our year 11’s are under pressure to finish all the controlled tests and we’ve been busy collating paperwork, getting forms signed for our GCSE and FCSE pupils.  All the paperwork should be sent off to AQA next week, so we’re now concentrating on the final listening and reading papers.  We’ve done some filming this week with our year 7’s and 9’s so it would be great if we could show these on the blog, as well as some great work which our pupils have been doing in the IT rooms.  Year 9 options are nearing the end of the process and we’re gradually finding out about classes next year, and we have healthy numbers taking languages in KS4 in Spanish, French and Urdu, so it’s great to know how much our pupils value languages!  And they are really quite good at them!  One of our year 11’s is even taking his Italian GCSE this year too (along with Spanish and French!) – how amazing is that!  A letter has gone out to parents of pupils going on the French/History trip in October, reminding them about the balance to pay, and also to ask them to send a passport photo for the group passport and a reminder to apply for the EHIC card.  Mme Plouchart tells me that the paperwork is all in order for the June year 7 trip to the Pas-de-Calais, so I’m sure it will be a fantastic success!

HOMEWORK

Mrs Cox’s Homework

7G2 – Learn 20 sports

8F3 – Complete cinema poster

9G4 – Revise for writing exam

Year 10 – Learn ‘useful adjectives’ list

Madame Plouchart’s Homework

7G3, 7F3, 7G4 – Learn the new vocab for sporting activities including how to say you like them or not

8G2, 8F2 – Complete the worksheet on types of film 1) match 2) examples 3) opinion

Miss Bell’s Homework

7F1 – Create a weather forecast for the UK including 6 types of weather and compass points

8G5, 8F4 – Learn 3 of the j’ai mal sentences off by heart – watch the youtube clip on illnesses

Year 9 – Learn clothing vocabulary for mini test

Year 10 – Revise past tense time phrases for test from Edmodo

Year 11 – Continue to revise for reading and listening exams

Mrs Roe’s Homework

8G1 – Write up diary

8F2 – Find out about a French film

9G1 – Learn page 3 in FCSE booklet

9F5 – Learn countries and places in FCSE booklet

Year 10 – Go over 2010 reading and listening papers and learn vocabulary

Year 11 – Revision/past papers for reading and listening exams

Ms Lindley’s Homework

Year 7 – Learn sports in alphabetical order

Year 8 – Revise whole unit for assessment

Year 9g – Write a mini presentation about yourself

Year 9f – From memory write a sentence on leisure in the present tense

Year 10 – Write ¾ page on future holiday plan

Mrs Roe's weekly update - week ending 20th April 2012

 

We’ve had such a hectic week in this first week back at school.   The pupils who went on the ski trip to Austria and the trip to China have now returned and all are full of the experiences they had abroad, and hopefully really appreciated the wonderful opportunities they have been given.  Many thanks to all the teachers involved and I know how much work went into these trips to ensure their success.  You can find an account and link to a more detailed account of our pupils time in China.  With year 9, we have now begun the final FCSE module, so keep on working hard year 9’s – you are almost there!  Also our year 11’s are busy, finishing off assessed coursework and revising hard for their final listening and reading exams – please look under the exam category to confirm exam dates.  On Wednesday Miss Bell  and Mrs McHale took three year 7 pupils up to Newcastle for the regional spelling bee competition, where they had to name a word in French and then spell it on demand in a minute.  Our pupils didn’t win any prizes but we were so proud of them as they did really well, and were such a good example of how brilliant Grangefield pupils can be!   Well done to all of you.  Year 10’s should now be starting to work really hard, as they only have a year to go, before their final exam, so year 10’s, if you have been ‘cruising’ so far – now is the time to start really working hard.  All our KS4 French and Spanish students should now have registered on Edmodo, where there is lots of other help , hints, advice, and links which will invaluable for your studies.

Homework week ending 20^th April 2012

Mrs Roe

8f 2 – Learn film genres and find out the name of a film for each genre

8g1 – learn module 2 vocabulary up to opinions

9g1 – write 6 sentences using the 'depuis' construction (eg using j'habite, j'étudie, je suis etc)

9f5 – find out names of other towns, regions, rivers, tourist attractions in France

Y10 – prepare/learn short paragraph about a past holiday

Y11 – Revision for listening and reading exams

Y8 Carousel – find out a fact (which you didn’t know before) about Germany

Y9 German – Describe two family members/friends

Y9 Spanish – practice café dialogue

Mme Plouchart

8f1 – Write about the Simpson’s hobbies in the 3^rd person

8g2 – As above and include the future

9f2/9g3 – Write a presentation about a family member in the 3^rd person, and choose 2 celebrities to describe – use il and elle

7g4, 7f3 and 7g3 – Revise for assessment for module 3

Mrs Lindley

Y7 – symbolise and learn sports in homework booklet

Y8 – learn film categories

Y9 – learn mini presentation about self and family

Y10 – write a paragraph about holidays

Mr Hussain

8f/g – Revise for written test

9f – Revise for listening exam

9g – Write a paragraph on your chosen leisure activity

Y10 – revise for listening test

Y11 – prepare for speaking assessment

Mrs Roe's weekly update - week ending 29th March 2012

          

It’s our last day in school – at least it is for the pupils, so this update is a day early. It’s been a lovely sunny week, and the prospect of the impending holiday with the lovely weather has somehow made this a pleasant week. Letters have gone out to year 10 and 11 parents of Miss Bell’s and Mrs Roe’s classes to explain about Edmodo, and year 11 Spanish and French rooms have been created to help the pupils with their homework and revision. Our pupils have been given the codes and are all expected to join. Parents can also log on to check their child’s progress and also should not hesitate to contact us with any queries. The other French and Spanish classes are also welcome to join, so please see your language teacher for the code. Thirty pupils left this morning for a week in China with our partner school, so I’m sure they’ll have an amazing time and we look forward to hearing all about their trip on their return. The ski trip leaves tomorrow for Austria, the year 7’s are off to Calais in June and the French/history trip is in October. The following year, a trip to Iceland has been advertised so there are many exciting opportunities for our pupils to travel all over the globe from Grangefield!!! So, let’s hope our Key Stage 4 pupils do plenty of revision, but also find the time to relax and return refreshed for this next important term. So all that remains for me and the MFL team to say is: JOYEUSES PÂQUES! eid Mubarak! ¡Felices Pascuas! Frohe Ostern ! Fùhuó jié kuàilè

Miss Bell’s Classes

Year 10 – Edmodo site, preterite tense worksheet and gap fill.

Year 11 – Continue to revise for reading and listening exams

Mrs Roe’s Classes

7F2 – Learn vocabulary from module 3 for assessment after Easter

 Year 10 – Revise using Edmodo site for at least 2 hours over the holiday. See the links to recommended websites on the blog and Edmodo

Year 11 – Revision for exams. Register on Edmodo. See links to AQA past papers.

MRS ROE WILL BE IN SCHOOL ON MONDAY 2 APRIL IF ANY YEAR 11s NEED HELP OR GUIDANCE

Ms Lindley’s Classes

Year 7 – collect sports pictures for next term

Year 8 – Learn excuses

Year 10 – Vocab test, learn p68-69

Mrs Roe's weekly update - week ending 23rd March 2012

As usual – it’s been hectic in the MFL department in the second last week of term!  The Spanish, Mandarin and French clubs have been well attended, Miss Bell’s French class spelling bee representatives have been busy practising, year 9’s took their second FCSE module in the hall this week, and early results are looking promising. Mrs Bell and I have set up Edmodo rooms for our year 10 French and Spanish classes, and homework assignments and help are now in this room.  Year 11’s will have access to a room for them hopefully this week, so they can take advantage of the links for some vital last minute revision.  Also- check out the vocabulary video on youtube – GroovOCAB – one of the ways we are trying to help our pupils learn vocabulary http://youtu.be/J7JDIzjOxEgl. On 20^th March Mrs McHale and I took 15 year 9’s to the International Festival of Culture at Teesside University, run by Routes into Languages.  It was a wonderful programme – see the report below which is also in the International Visits category.  I have also inserted the youtube clips we saw in the Russian session – many thanks to Isabel for sending me her power point and the youtube links.

Homework

Mrs Roe’s Classes

8G – Write 10 sentences using present tense reflexive verbs – se coucher and se lever

8G German – prepare carousel projects

9F, 9G – Revise for FCSE tests

9F Spanish – Revise fruit and vegetables in Spanish

9G German – Revise hair and eye colour

Year 10 – 10 sentences using adjectives, page 35 yellow vocab book – learn. Sign up to Edmodo

Year 11 – AQA website sample R+L tests. Revision from CGP books

Ms Lindley’s Classes

Year 7 – Make a vase-bouquet of flowers describing with correct adjectival agreement

Year 8 – Learn excuses from mini slip

Year  - Revision for FCSE exams

Year 10 – Symbolise items on p37 to learn

Mrs Cox’s Homework

7G2 – Learn clothing vocab

8F3 – Learn numbers 1-60 for test

9G4 – Revise for writing exam

9F2 – Revise for writing exam

Year 10 – Learn imperfect tense formation

Miss Bell’s Homework

Year 7 – Learn 3 of the extreme sports sentences off by heart

9G, 95 – Revise from FCSE booklets for reading and listening exams

Year 10 – Visit Edmodo site for “tener” gap fill and “estar” “querer” and “tener” conjugation and translation.

Year 11 – Continue with revision for reading and listening exams

Madame Plouchart’s Homework

8F1, 8G2 – Learn reflexive verbs table with the je, tu, il forms

9F German – Choose celebs/characters to draw and label own family tree

 

Mrs Roe's weekly update - week ending 16th March 2012

                                 
My goodness – it’s almost Easter!  Just another two weeks although we’ve still got so much to do!  Our  year 11’s have been taking their final  GCSE Spanish speaking controlled assessments and the French controlled assessments are next week.  9 f will take their next reading and listening comprehension FCSE exam on Monday, and 9g will take their exam on Thursday – please check dates under the exam category.  Second deposits are due for  the October French/History trip, and hopefully this will be sent off to Halsbury Travel next week.  Year 7’s should make sure they’ve given Mme Plouchart their passport photos and EHIC cards (or proof you have them) as soon as possible for the Pas-de-Calais in June.  I know the year 7’s are getting very excited about the trip!  Also next week, 15 of our year 9 pupils will be attending the Festival of International Culture at Teesside University Business School next Tuesday, so this is a new event which we haven’t taken part in before and we’re so thrilled to have secured some places.  I’m sure our year 9 pupils will do us proud!

Homework

Mrs Roe’s Classes

7F2 – Write out timetable in French

8G1 – Write 10 sentences in French using reflexive verbs

9G1,9F5 – Revise vocab for FCSE tests

9G – Draw a family tree in German

9F – Learn adjectives

Y10 – Learn p 34 vocab booklet and 3 sentences on how you spend your pocket money

Y11 – Prepare for speaking controlled assessment

Ms Lindley’s Classes

Y7 – Learn any items you got wrong in quiz.  Complete ‘baby’ book

Y8 – Write a paragraph about a star’s routine (athlete, film, TV)

Y9 – Revise for all tests

Y10 – Learn presentation about technology

Miss Bell’s Classes

9G2,9F5  – Revise for all FCSE tests

Y10 – Learn Igualdad vocabulary and sign up to edmodo.com

Y11 – Revise for speaking controlled assessment

Mrs Plouchart’s Classes

Y9 – Revise for FCSE tests