French Day
On Friday 21st September, Week 9, the Paringa Park Primary School will partake in our first French Day, a celebration of all things French. We will have a number of things happening on the day, including a French theme dress up, croissant lunch and French activities. More information will be in the newsletters leading up to French Day. Bonjour tout le monde,
French Poetry Competition Each year the South Australian French Teachers Association holds the French Poetry Competition to Primary School age children. This term, Years 1-6 have been learning French poems from the French Poetry Competition. Students who wish to enter the competition will be reciting the poems to me in week 4,and the top students from each category will have the opportunity to enter the SAFTA state competition. Monday: Year 1 students Tuesday: Year 2/3 students Wednesday: Year 4/5 students Thursday: Year 6 students In addition to this, students have the opportunity to enter the Poetry Art Competition, where they illustrate their French poem in their own time or at French Club. Entries are due Friday, Week 5. Bonne chance! Madame Ellison French News
Bonjour tout le monde, Welcome back to Term 3- this term in French lessons, children are learning with French poems from the SAFTA French Poetry Competition. We are reading, translating, unpacking, illustrating, and re-writing the poems, with the aim of memorisation and a focus on pronunciation. Children have the option and are encouraged to enter the SAFTA Poetry Competition, the best from each year level category Paringa Park will be chosen to enter the State competitions. All children also have the opportunity to participate in the Paringa Park Poetry Art Competition- where they illustrate their French poem in their own time or at French Club. The top 2 from each year level category will be displayed in the school at the end of Term 3. Children can collect extra copies of their poems from me in the library before school. Penpals This term, the Year 7 classes have become PenPals with students from Collège Saint-Joseph de Cluny, Nouméa, New Caledonia. We will be taking it in turns writing in French and in English, focusing on simple sentence and verb structures. With our first letters being sent next week- we are looking forward to getting to know our new New Caledonian friends. Livres d’Information Last term some Middle Years classes learned about, and how to describe animals in French. To the end of the term, LA1-1, LA1-2, LA1-10, and LA3-2 wrote their own French information reports, which we published and are now available for the school community to read in the Library. Come and have a look! French Reading Challenge The French Reading Challenge is still going on- Congratulations to those students who have already completed it. If you need new record sheets, they are available in the library. Reading is one of the best ways to learn any language- and we have a wonderful collection of French picture books and comics, as well as our own published information reports. Following our visit from Le Van du Livre on Monday, students have shown an interest in Les BDs in French (les bandes dessinées- comic strips). In the library we have access to a small collection, including Tintin and Les Schtroumpfs, that can be borrowed by students. The website Bandgee is also another place to find French comics, both digitally, and in TV show form. Watching, reading and listening to French language is an under-used medium of language learning within Australian homes. Many students have access to YouTube and Netflix, and can easily search French series' and songs to watch, as well as movies and TV series they already know. By exposing students to French audio, they will begin to recognise known and regularly used words, pick up accurate accents, and generally become more confident language learners. www.bandgee.com/schtroumpfs Week 4 Term 2
On Monday this week we were visited by Anne and Jacques from Le Van du Livres (The French Book Van). They had come from Perth and arrived bright and early with their School Bus-size van, and set up under the COLA between the Library and the Gym. Anne and Jacques worked with each class for a short amount of time, introducing familiar (Devine Combien Je T'aime/Guess How Much I Love You) and new texts (Saute!/Jump!), some French favourites (Tintin, Les Schtroumpfs/The Smurfs) and sang some songs (L'araignee Gipsy/Incy Wincy Spider). After school the community had the opportunity to purchase French books , and we added a few new ones to the school French book collection. Come and check them out in the library- they will be ready for borrowing in Week 5! They were very impressed with the engagement of Paringa Park children, and thanked the school for inviting them to visit us. Next they are off to Melbourne to visit some more schools. www.frenchbooksonwheels.org/ In Week 2, 6 classes took the train to the Art Gallery of South Australia to see the Colours of Impressionism Exhibition. They had a guided tour of masterpieces that have come all the way from the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, by Monet, Renoir, Manet, Morisot, Pissarro and Cézanne. They got to spend an hour working on their own artistic worlds, in the Studio, and exploring the Divided Worlds Biennial Exhibition. www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Exhibitions/NowShowing/Colours_of_Impressionism |
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