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Showing that they have a plethora of skills year 9 participated in an enrichment day around learning languages. Learning a language has been seen to have multiple benefits beyond...
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Showing that they have a plethora of skills year 9 participated in an enrichment day around learning languages. Learning a language has been seen to have multiple benefits beyond...
Posted by Claire Till
Creativity is a central part of learning encompassing both activity and thought. An excellent example of this came from a visit I paid to the History department. Engaging Year 7...
Posted by Claire Till
This week we held our first non-fiction D.E.A.R event. Non-fiction texts being seen as those about existing things and as informative. Described in a TED talk as ‘healing...
Posted by Claire Till
Winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2019 The Poet X has joined our growing collection of books that celebrate the diversity of writer’s experiences and the backgrounds from...
Posted by Claire Till
Joining a Year 11 English lesson this week I found myself immersed in the world of Scrooge. Our GCSE English gains students two GCSEs: one in English Language and the other in...
Posted by Claire Till
Oxford University Press conducted an online survey with teachers from around the UK to investigate the ‘word gap’ that exists for primary and secondary school students. Their...
Posted by Claire Till
Joining a Year 9 class for their physical geography lesson I had the pleasure of seeing these students modelling all of our Keys to Success. Engaged in independent research they...
Posted by Claire Till
Providing students with an interesting journey through the why and how of human behaviour is GCSE Psychology. Psychology is understood as the scientific study of the mind and...
Posted by Claire Till
Coinciding with the Jhalak Prize 2020 for Writers of Colour our LRC is recognising classical and contemporary literature by such authors. With a remarkable range of...
Posted by Claire Till
Year 7 Enrichment Day provided an opportunity for our students to study ICT. They were given the chance to learn about Google Classrooms and to apply this in practice developing...
Posted by Claire Till
Showing that they have a plethora of skills year 9 participated in an enrichment day around learning languages. Learning a language has been seen to have multiple benefits beyond that of increasing employment opportunities for instance research has found that multilinguals are better at problem solving, more creative and are better multitaskers than those speaking one language. Engaging in a variety of activities including cooking, art, music and dance year 9 students learnt how to be creative in their learning of another language. In cooking students were making madeleines. Madeleines being small French cakes in the shape of shells dating back to the 18th Century. Getting students to flex their muscles with the whisking together of eggs and sugar they produced a range of tasty treats. A similar display of physical activity was evident in dance as the warm-up of planks became dancing the Can Can. A lively dance of French origin, that is known for its high kicks and dates back to Parisian dance halls in the 1830s. Meanwhile, the language department had transformed classrooms into shops and had students completing the everyday activity of shopping for specific items. Walking into music saw a range of different talents being displayed as students reading and playing music from French scoresheets not only building cross-curricular skills but also their confidence when presenting work to peers.
MFL Faculty nominated 10 Maple the winner of the European Day of Languages photo competition. This involved CDC groups taking a photograph of a foreign dish (or something that...
Last Friday some of us went on a trip to help us improve our French speaking and writing skills and this included watching films in between. We watched 4 short films and did...