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are now officially an International School. We are delighted to announce that we have recently been awarded International School Status due to the numerous activities that take place across the curriculum and throughout our school community. |
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Examples
of the many varied events and projects include: The International Food
Festival Evening; European Day of Languages; Fairtrade stalls at Parents
Evenings; Jewish assembly; Chinese New Year celebrations; St Patricks
Day assembly; World Book Day; Links with Jinga in Uganda; The teaching
of foreign languages in school; Links with French schools;Mentoring
of student language teachers and foreign exchange students. |
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More information on the International School Award is available on the website www.globalgateway.org |
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We are pleased to announce that our new after-school Italian Club is
now up and running! Key Stage 2 children have had the opportunity to
benefit from the expertise of a native Italian speaker who has been
teaching them about the sights and sounds of her home country and plenty
of useful phrases and conversational language. |
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Here at St Margaret Ward School we celebrated the European
Day of Languages on Friday 26 October 2008. All the
children enjoyed a variety of activities, from learning to greet people
in French, Spanish and German, through to working with flags and language
role plays. Au revoir! |
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We were fortunate to have Mademoiselle Ritsch, a French language assistant,
work with the children throughout 2007-08 and she was kept busy teaching
French vocabulary through songs, books, games and finger rhymes.The children
learned how to count and write some numbers in French; Class 2 drew a
monster to learn body parts and colours; Class 3 and Class 4 made wonderful
Christmas cards for their families, all in French. Mademoiselle Ritsch also taught the children more about French culture through powerpoint presentations and showing them what France looks like.The aim was to encourage the children to learn French in a fun and stimulating way and they certainly seemed to really enjoy their lessons. |
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During the Spring
Term, Class 2 listened and did actions along to a French song about a
rabbit hiding from a farmer under a cabbage - they then learned the names
of animals, different vegetables and locations such as garden, house etc. The children then wrote a sentence in French and drew their own illustration of the story - these are just a few of their fantastic drawings. |
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As
part of the 2007 International Week(from 24 September), our children
learned about capital cities, completed quizzes and word searches about
different countries and then made flags and bunting in preparation for
our International Food Festival
Evening. They also looked at the different natural landscapes in the countries we were representing at the festival and some children drew lovely palm trees, beaches, blue skies and sunsets, which are very different to our British beaches. |
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1 children are learning Spanish during PPA time and they are introduced
to the language by means of flashcards,videos, interactive programs on
the smartboard, books, games and songs. They also benefit from the support provided by Miss Martinez from Altrincham Grammar School for Girls, who helps with the preparation of resources and delivers Spanish in the Foundation Stage. A Language Assistant, Mademoiselle Ritsch, delivers French in Keystage 2. |
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the activities are aimed at developing language skills but also awareness
of different cultures and cross-curricular activities related to Geography
and Citizenship. Children also learn to look at patterns, similarities
and differences with the English language, with a direct impact on Literacy
skills. |
| In January 2007, our friends at 'Ecole Montgazon' sent our Year 4 and 5 children a wonderful collection of letters, cards and artistic portraits and our Class 4 are now busy writing replies to their new French penpals. |
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European
Day of Languages
on 26 September 2006 was celebrated throughout the school and across
the curriculum: Reception children learned French songs; Class 1 learned
greetings in Polish and Portugese; Class 2 studied the life of St Bernadette
and learned more French vocabulary; Class 4 studied the lives of a Spanish
saint and Salvador Dali as well as trying out their culinary skills
making Spanish food ; Class 5 increased their vocabulary in a number
of languages; Class 3 looked at French and Spanish responses to greetings
and 'All about me'. |
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group of children helped to create powerpoint presentations and added
speech in their own native languages including Spanish, Portugese and
Polish.
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| Last year our Keystage 1 children enjoyed Spanish lessons whilst our Keystage 2 children learned French. |
| Our infant
children learned Spanish through a variety of methods including the use
of cartoons and videos and additionally developed an awareness of the
culture and civilisation of Spanish speaking countries. With the introduction of the Smartboard in class 2, the many learning resources of the internet are also utilised. |
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| Children in Class 3 had pen friends in a school in Montgazon Ecole in Parthenay, France - they exchanged numerous emails and letters and were delighted to receive a large box full of salt-dough gifts, all the way from France.They will continue to correspond with their pen friends during the year and our new Class 3 will also have the opportunity to email another class of children at the same school. |  |
| Modern Foreign Languages Day 2006 was celebrated with food tasting, language quizzes and games as well as language lessons. |
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