Category: French

French with Pre-Reception

7th February 2022

In the spring term, Pre-Reception are listening to two fairy-tales in French! This half-term we are covering ‘Cendrillon’ (‘Cinderella’), and we have been playing games with the words Cendrillon, le Prince, les deux soeurs, la Bonne Fée and la pantoufle. We are also making our own pictures to use with the story. After half-term we…

French in Year 1

6th July 2021

Over this term we’ve been learning lots of schoolbag items, and how to say the colour of the item too; we can usually remember to put it after the item! We’ve also been learning how to say which items we have and don’t have.

French – with Reception

6th July 2021

We have been listening to another French fairytale, ‘Boucle d’Or et les Trois Ours’. We are really good now at naming all the key words in our games, and have even started to learn ‘small, middle-sized and big’ chairs and beds…

French Assembly – Year 5

6th July 2021

Voila! What better way to celebrate all things French than the Year 5 assembly. A true showcase of the wonderful vocabulary, phrases and songs they have learnt this year. Thank you to Madame Hole for putting this together and to our lovely Year 5 for going all out and working hard to make this a…

French – Year 5 Immersion Day!

18th June 2021

Ooh la la! Year 5 had their French Immersion Day on Wednesday this week, and had so much fun! We played games with key words and then held our own French Revolution (no children were harmed!) We had an amazing cheese-tasting, very kindly provided and hosted via Zoom by our catering company, and then took…

French – Off to the Shops!

25th May 2021

In Year 5 we have been extending our shopping theme to include shops and new roleplay phrases, and performing these to the class. We have also been learning two very different songs about food…to be revealed at our assembly in June!  

French – Adjectives and Family

14th May 2021

Year 4 have been learning lots of adjectives for physical appearance; we’ve noticed that lots of French adjectives change when they are used for a girl or a woman. We are now building on last term’s topic of families, by introducing and describing our relatives – not always in a complimentary way! My apologies for…

French with Year 3

10th May 2021

Year 3 have been making some very strange noises in class over the last couple of weeks! We are reading a poem called ‘Les Arbres’, and to help us pronounce the key words correctly, we have been learning some more fun French phonemes…see if your child can demonstrate the following!

Le Petit Chaperon Rouge!

23rd April 2021

This half-term Reception are preparing to read a well-known story in French: ‘Le Petit Chaperon Rouge!’ We have started to learn some key words, and next week we will be listening to the story to see if we can hear those words.

French – with Year 1

4th December 2020

We have been learning lots of snack words over the last few weeks, and this week we finally started reading our story of ‘La chenille qui fait des trous’…’The Very Hungry Caterpillar.’ We can join in with the days of the week, fruit words and food vocabulary in this story, and a few other words…