Direct Object Pronouns - Year 9 French

Today in French we used the Habit of Mind: Persistence, in order to tackle Direct Object Pronouns in French. 9PU excellently approached the task and completed an online quiz to experience success. Mlle Hardman est très fière!

Term 1 update.

Well it's been a busy Term 1! We embraced Open Evening by transforming our department into an airport, celebrating our academic achievements with the BA Flag Award. We celebrated the European Week of Languages with themed assemblies, inspiring quotes as corridor visuals and quizzes and the like. The department staff have new Easi-Speak microphones so they are very happy. Thinking Schools initiative continues to form the foundation of our teaching and learning.  The students continue to inspire us with their achievements and they look forward to seeing who the current faces are on the 'Wokywood' Hall of Fame. Our year 9 students are also enjoying access to the foreign language assistants and we launch into Term 2 with as much fervour as the previous one. Till the next update! Miss Hardman

Elbeuf Work Experience Trip a Success!

The 2013 Elbeuf Work Experience Trip was a resounding success with all participants representing the school excellently whilst abroad. Students delivered English language lessons to primary school students, spent time in the local secondary school (Lycée André Maurois) on Saturday morning, and settled into life with their French families. The last day consisted of a trip to Paris where Monet was viewed, la Seine was sailed and the Eiffel Tower was climbed. Not bad for a day trip! The weather held out too. Lucky given the snow and rain that had fallen the previous week. Well done to all participants for doing us proud. (The staff too had their work cut out as they spent the week driving around the French countryside visiting students. A sat nav came in very handy!) Miss Hardman, Miss Figueira and Jessica Paboudjian.

British Airways Language Flag Award Winners

Weald of Kent has been nationally recognised as the winner of the most outstanding British Airways Language Flag Award School of 2012. The current Year 10 students have collectively achieved the most passes in the UK (136). We have already awarded the top students in each tested language Olympic Park day passes, courtesy of British Airways, back in September. In addition to this, we will also receive a glass award and £100. Well done to all the students and staff involved.

Here in the MFL department we are excited about the continuation of the development of the FROG VLE. We are currently designing our MFL information pages for students to access during snow or on absence days. Watch this space!

Footballer talking French with a funny accent

Languages have made the news again as Joey Barton, speaking in an interview after making his debut for Marseille, spoke in a mix of accents: Liverpudlian and French! His reason:'In my defence, it is very difficult to do a press conference in Scouse for a room full of French journalists". What do you think?

Possessive Adjectives - 9RE FR

Dear 9RE FR, Please click on this link to access an exercise to practice todays learning about possessive adjectives. Merci! Mlle Hardman

Our Spanish pen pals from Ourense

Last year we wrote on this blog about our link with our friends from Prácticas Primary School in the town of Ourense, in the North West of Spain. This year 7 Red and 8 Blue have been our ambassadors in Spain by continuing this pen pal exchange with the Spanish students. 8 Blue have been pen pals with class 6ºB for two years and the two classes met again via videoconference on Friday 18th June. This is the link to the videoconference. Thank you very much to 8 Blue for their enthusiasm and I hope they stay friends with their Spanish pen pals for many years to come!

BA Flag Award

Our year 9 second language students (Spanish and German) are currently embarking on the BA Flag Award course which was designed by BA to help educate students in the necessary language required to gain employment within the travel industry. BA and Heathrow, two of the largest employers in that industry, were, at one time, having to look abroad for suitable candidates that had the necessary linguistic skills to employ. The BA Flag Award was produced in an effort to be able to find suitable candidates from the UK itself. The Flag Award for Schools is therefore based on the Internal Flag Tests developed for staff at British Airways. We, at the Weald of Kent, are proud to be providing our students with the opportunity to gain such an employment relevant qualification. Good luck!

The MFL Team.

Au revoir! / ¡Adios! / Auf Wiedersehen!

Alas, our Foreign Language Assistants are leaving us today. They have been wonderful company in the MFL staffroom here at the Weald of Kent and we shall miss their personalities greatly. Their work with the students has been invaluable and we thank them for all they have done. Pictures will be added to the MFL Hall of Fame shortly... The MFL Team