Giving pupils the opportunity to sample a selection of foods from around Europe to celebrate the European Day of Languages at Nodehill last year certainly seemed to go down well amongst the lunchtime throng. This year, the 'best in Europe' range included the following delicacies (courtesy of Morrisons, Newport):
- Dutch cheese
- Welsh goats cheese
- Norwegian cheese
- Polish salami
- Spanish salami
- Danish salami
- Italian ham
- Greek grapes
- Italian tomato bread
- Finnish crackers
- Scottish shortbread
- Belgian waffles
- French croissant
- French pain au chocolat
- Swiss chocolate
- Belgian chocolate
- German biscuits
If this was not enough to satisfy pupils' appetite for expanding their cultural awareness, they were also treated to the delight of watching a short streamed video clip entitled Mission French Breakfast during house assembly this afternoon.
Created by Catherine Basset, former BBC TV director, the film depicts Double Agent Lucas (aged 6) being assigned the task of finding out what French people typically have for their breakfast.
The little lad does a sterling job naming each breakfast item in turn and the on screen prompts help the viewer to digest the new language in bitesize chunks.
To reinforce the breakfast vocabulary we chanted du pain, du beurre, de la confiture etc and pupils could read the words easily even from the back which was great.
If you would like to watch Mission French Breakfast yourself, you can drop Catherine an email and she will willingly send you the link. She has also made a film called Jacques a dit about practising parts of the body in French which is well worth a look too.
European Day of Languages may be over for another year, but for 26th September 2007, I think it's been Mission Accomplished.
Wow - sounds like great fun! We've been really busy too! Not content with one day, we've had a week of activities, culminating tomorrow in two assemblies and International Fancy Dress Parade. I'm expecting lots of footballers and French onion sellers but have heard whispers of a few innovative ideas. My colleague turned up as an Egyptian the other day, complete with make up and I've been an Argentine tango dancer and an Indian lady - tomorrow it's either the predictable flamenco dancer or the more off the wall Japanese Geisha girl (dressing gown and a cushion!) You can read about our exploits at www.whitehousecommon.org.uk
Oh yes - and OFSTED are coming on Monday! What timing!
Posted by: Lisa | 27/09/2007 at 21:46