Y5 French - le verbe être

Today Y5 have begun learning the French verb 

être  (which means 'to be').  This is a very useful verb to know!

Je suis = I am

Tu es = you are

Il est = he is

Elle est = she is

On est = one is / we are

Nous sommes = we are

Vous êtes = you (all) are

Ils sont =  they (boys) are

Elles sont = they (girls) are

We learnt a song https://youtu.be/z2IrJ0DB0Xg, and finished off with a quiz about school staff - all in French. 

We had fun!  Next week we will continue to use être  to speak and write about famous football players.

À bientôt! (See you soon)

Madame Dowler

French Stories

Year 6 have been busy writing and illustrating short stories in French this week,

 using verbs and words we know.



 

Christmas Pen pals - Year 5

Today in our French lesson, pupils wrote festive greetings to their new pen pals in Belgium.

They are  the same age as us, but they are in  Year 4 in their school.

This is because children start school a year later where they live.

We're sure the pupils at the Ecole Communale de St Pierre

will enjoy getting cards all the way from England.

We look forward to receiving cards from them in January.

 Madame Dowler, French Teacher.



Liberté - Égalité - Fraternité

C'est le 14 juillet!

Today is a national holiday in France, when people remember the storming of the Bastille.

This was the beginning of the French Revolution -  the 14th July 1789.

Exactly 100 years later, in 1889, the Eiffel Tower was built.

In their French lessons today, Y3DK and Y4MS heard about the French Revolution.  They also decorated their own copies of the Eiffel tower, and painted on the tricolor colours (the French flag).

You can read more about the history behind Bastille Day by visiting this site: http://www.euroclubschools.co.uk/page76.htm

Vive la France!

Madame Dowler

A Fantastic French Day

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 24^th 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!