Spanish Picnic

To culminate our Spanish Key Stage 3 work, we decided to arrange and enjoy a Spanish-themed picnic. Each of us brought in different foods and drinks, including tortillas, tropical juices, fruit skewers, and countless amounts of olives! We had great fun sampling all the different food, and we all thought that the picnic was a great success. 8S

Here is a recipie that the students used to make some of their picnic food.

Pastel de Limón

Ingredients

For the Cake

 2 eggs
 200g sugar
 250g self raising flour
 175ml of olive oil
 250ml cup of milk
 Grated lemon rind

For the Icing

 125ml cup of icing sugar
 2 tablespoons of milk
 1 teaspoon of soft butter
 The juice from half a lemon


Method
Put all of the ingredients into a large bowl and mix well. Once the ingredients have been thoroughly mixed and is pourable, put the mixture into greased cake tin, roughly 20cm in diameter.

No need to preheat the oven. Simply put the tin in the oven at 160˚C for the first 15minutes. This is so the cake can rise. Then raise the temperature to 180˚C for 20 to 35 minutes until cooked, or just until the cake is golden on the top, and is completely solid.

When it is cooked, take the cake out from the oven and let it stand until it is cool. Then remove the cake from the tin, before adding the icing.

For the icing simply mix all the ingredients together, before drizzling over the cake.

Spanish Love Poems

Year 9I listened to a song “Mi princesa” by David Bisbal in class. After listening to the song, they wrote their own poems to the “prince of their dreams”. These are some of their poems.

Necesito tus besos para no sentirme sola.
Volar sola no puedo, eres la estrella del cielo.
Estoy muriendo en la tristeza sin ti.
Lucie (9I)

Eres las estrellas de mi cielo.
Me encantan tus besos más que un helado.
Jasmine (9I)

Vivo en el desierto del deseo
¿Qué milagro tiene que pasar para que me ames?
Mi alma sola ha regalado todas las estrellas del cielo
Porque sabe que eres el príncipe de mis sueños encantados.
Bella (9I)

Sabes que eres las estrellas de mi cielo.
Sabes que eres el príncipe de mis sueños encantados.
¿Qué milagro tiene que pasar para que me ames?
Volar sola no puedo; estoy muriendo en la tristeza.
Tus besos curan mis heridas.
Eliza (9I)

ICT in French project

I am very pleased with my two year 9 French classes who have today demonstrated the final pieces from their ICT in French projects. See below for one example of a news broadcast and a radio broadcast. Others include E-Safety videos and Murder Mystery stories. More to come...

Mlle Hardman

Here is a radio broadcast created and presented by the year 9 French class. They worked hard on the project and the results show!



News broadcast:

Nous sommes de retour!

The Elbeuf work experience trip (25 June - 1st July 2011) has had another successful year, providing students in year 11/12 the opportunity to teach English to primary school students in Elbeuf, near Rouen in France. They also spend their free time with very accommodating families and a day in Paris takes place on the Wednesday. Miss Hardman was very proud of how the girls conducted themselves in the work environment and many long term friendships have been developped. Student reviews to follow but here are some photos of the trip for a taster.


Mlle Hardman practising her French by buying tickets for the group to go up the Eiffel Tower!











One of the views from the second floor of the Eiffel Tower.

Proof! We climbed 700 steps (including the top one!) to get to the second floor.

Our exchange school "le Lycée André Maurois".