MFL News - July 2008
Mini-Trip To Caen
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MFL News - September 2007
MFL CELEBRATES!
Not only did 79% of our French pupils and 96% of our Spanish students gain A* - C in their GCSE exams but the following students took a variety of languages early at GCSE and they are to be congratulated for their achievements :
Nicole Smith Spanish A*
Daniel Dobeson Spanish A*
Constanza Fuentes Spanish A*
Lucy Chen Mandarin Chinese A*
Peter Lin Mandarin Chinese A*
Zhenya Berry Russian A*
Luke Courtney-Wells French A*
Daniele Mwanadeyi French A*
Thomas Newman French A* Mandarin Chinese A* and he is now studying for his Spanish GCSE – we hope he can do as well!
EXCHANGE 2008
Once again we are organising a mini-exchange to the College Saint Paul, Caen for pupils from years 7 & 8.
We are hoping to take 30 pupils and the proposed dates are – French visit Portsmouth from Saturday May 3rd – Wednesday May 7th.
We shall be visiting Caen from Saturday 14th June – Wednesday 18th June 2008
During our stay we are planning to visit Rouen, Honfleur, Arromanches, Bayeux and the Normandy Landing Beaches.
The cost of the trip will be £65 and application forms will be available towards the end of October.
THANKS to all the enthusiastic helpers from Years 7 & 8 who assisted on Open Evening. They were excellent ambassadors for the department and served the food with good French accents !
WELL DONE TO ALL THE Year 11 Spanish students who turned up for their revision classes on Wednesday evenings. French will be starting on Wednesdays after half-term
Minutes of the Student Voice Meeting for MFL
18th September 2007 3pm - 3.25pm
Present: Daniel Ebrey, Daniel Short, James Hunt, Nelson Joiner Velasco, Shane Malloy, Adam Jankowski, Nicola Gallop, Felicity Reid, Patrick Sealey
Mrs. Tomlinson, Dr. Deadman, Miss Mazats, Mrs. O’Mara
Nine students attended the meeting representing years 7,8,10 & 11.
Students expressed a wish for more games, DVDs and fun in lessons.
They were keen to see more trips being offered, especially residential ones and G&T trips to the university and The News Centre.
Students were keen to have more opportunity to watch French and Spanish DVDs in enrichment time after school.
They were generally satisfied with the amount and level of work in lessons but thought that teachers were too strict!
They would prefer to do homework in class time.
As a department we promised to accommodate some of these ideas in our future plans for lessons. BMZ will look into buying more DVDs
All students were thanked for their attendance.
The next meeting will take place on Tuesday November 6th at 3pm
MFL DEPARTMENT NEWS MAY /JUNE 2007
Key stage 3
28 pupils from the Collège St Paul in Caen came to stay for a long weekend with their English pen pals on the 11th 12th 13th &14th May. Unfortunately the weather was very poor but nevertheless the French pupils were very pleased with their visits and the warm hospitality they received.
On Saturday June 23rd June 30 Year 7 & 8 pupils will be travelling by ferry to Caen with Dr. Deadman, Mrs. Tomlinson and Mr. Styllis .They will be staying with their pen pals. On Sunday our pupils will spend the day with their host families. On Monday we are going to visit Mont St. Michel and on Tuesday we will be shopping in Caen before joining the French for lunch at the Collège. We shall return to Portsmouth on the 16.30 ferry, arriving in Portsmouth at 21.45.
Many pupils from Years 7& 8 had speaking tests in the last 3 weeks. Some of them worked really hard and sounded quite fluent. Please join me in congratulating in Year 7 in particular Hannah Dawson, Alexandra Glass, Annabelle Haiati, Benjamin Hooley, Frances O’Sullivan, Mikaela Olivar, Marcella Reeves, Holly Timmons, Jack Tolfree Faye Weston, Ariane Arenas, Sam Beckett, Erin Fidler, Megan Findlay, Katie Moseley, Amy Venton-Nash, Matthew Sankey, Alice Ayles, Ashleigh Calvert, Alex Gebremichael, James Hunt, Kevin Johnson, Carla Parsons, Aimee Staniford, Sophie Samuel, Jonathan Whitney, Sigornay Charles, Megan Darmanin, Lauren Game, Takura Mlambo, James Rafter who achieved excellent results and their parents who got them to practise. In Year 8 several pupils managed to write and speak about their past holidays and their future plans. In particular Janet Cuschieri, Jennifer Dawson, Jasmine Doyle, Sara Fisher,Alice Kennard, Carmen Langworthy, Sam Sheldon, Charlotte Baxter, Shenade Charles, Victoria Claxton, Liam Doherty, David Foord, Tina Giordano, Jessica Jordan-Howlett, Solena Rivas Peatfield,Sally Pearce, Grace Turnbull and Joshua Vasquez who did really well, congratulations to them and their parents who got them to practise !
Key Stage 4
22 pupils from year 10 spent a day at the News Centre creating the front page of a newspaper in French with current topics of their choice written by themselves in French. The standard of work was very high and will soon be on display in the language department. Well done to all those who took part. The staff at the News Centre was very helpful and we had a guided tour of the centre which was very informative.
30 pupils will be taking part in Gifted and Talented Days at the University of Portsmouth on the 18th & 19th June. They will be working in either Spanish or French on a variety of different activities.
Pupils from Year 10 will be going to The News Centre on the 9th & 10th July to create a front page in Spanish.
We are really pleased with our Year 10 who have worked really hard this year and have completed 3 out of 5 pieces of coursework in controlled conditions with many pupils gaining A’s and A* in both French and Spanish.
Our year 11 have now completed all their Spanish, French, Russian and Mandarin Chinese GCSE exams. Let us hope they all do really well. Good luck with their results in August!
