Staff and pupils
celebrated the launch of teaching French as a Modern Foreign Language this
week.
This term all children from year two up visited the
National Gallery, in London, to study ‘The Bathers at Asnieres’ by Georges
Seurat. As part of the gallery’s Take-One-Picture Project pupils produced some
stunning pieces of work and hosted an exhibition in the school hall. Some
children recreated the painting; others made models, imagined what it would be
like to be one of the characters in the picture or researched life in France
during the nineteenth century.
On Thursday 24th October everyone dressed up
as people from French speaking countries. At lunchtime they ate a delicious
French meal. Then in the afternoon, the ‘Friends of Suttons’ organised a
balloon race. All children released either a blue, white or red balloon. The
balloons looked spectacular against the bright blue sky. The day was great fun. A day all the children will remember for a long time!
