MFL Tomlinscote

Berlin impressions

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This is a video Tomlinscote produced for the PASCH-net online magazine Schülerbild.

Have a look at the little city tour around Berlin (and learn some means of transport in German along the way):

Follow this link to see more videos produced by other Pasch-schools in North-West-Europe.
Do have a look at the Irish contribution! Maybe we'll play around with an 'Apfelsine' soon, too....

http://blog.pasch-net.de/schuelerzeitung/

What do you think? Feel free to leave a comment....

Student of the Month - January 2012

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The Tomlinscote student of the month is

Georgina Rawlings in 11X

for her fantastic work and dedication in Japanese!

This will be her second award! She is always punctual to class, her homework and classwork are both consistently perfectly completed.

Well done to you, Georgina!

Student of the Month - January 2012

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Frau Mahler's students of the month are the winners of a competition held at Ravenscote Junior School:
Children had to reply to posters about German Christmas traditions sent over by pupils from Hanover. They had to produce powerpoints, pictures or texts about British or other traditions celebrated in their families.

....and the winners are:

for year 6: Alexandra Perry (6M/S)

for year 5: Christina Exall (5NL)

Congratulations!

The following people also produced fantastic texts and pictures and deserve a special mention here:

In year 6, in second place Rebecca Carnie (6F), in third place Amy Butterley (6ML), and in joint fourth Sophie Marney (6M/S) and Ditte Wikke (6M/S).

In year 5, in second place Rachel Eadie (5NL), in third Laila Dackombe (5BE) and in fourth place Joshua Davies-Lye (5S).

Well done and VIELEN DANK to all of you for your lovely contributions!

Happy Chinese New Year!

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Today is Chinese New Year - it's the start of the

Year of the Dragon!

People in China clean the house to attract good luck and give one another presents. On New Year's Eve, families have a big feast together and set off fireworks, and in the morning children receive money in red paper envelopes.

A special greeting to all the Chinese learners at Tomlinscote!

Click on the image below to get a link for a really tricky game identifying Chinese sounds! How many will you get correctly?

Student of the Month - December 2011 (2)

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Congratulations to Kelsey Parsons on her outstanding achievement in being awarded a place at

Trinity Hall, Cambridge, to read Chinese!

The Language College is very proud that we have two language students with places at Oxford and Cambridge for 2012!

Kelsey is the first Tomlinscote student to have an Oxbridge place to study Chinese. Well done, Kelsey!

This month, we also celebrate a budding linguist from year 7:

Lauren Wiggins in 7Y has written this fabulous text about her school in French: Magnifique!

Student of the Month - December

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Our Christmas student of the month is a very special individual:

Chiara Giovanni in year 13 has been nominated by Frau Brown.

Chiara is certainly one of the most talented linguists Tomlinscote has ever seen and easily one of the most enthusiastic, too. She has been one of our German language ambassadors and has recently participated in a three week intensive language course in Germany through our PASCH partnership.

We are pleased and very proud to reveal that Chiara has been offered a place at Magdalen College, Oxford,
to read German and Spanish.

We hope that she will enjoy the course and are certain that she will continue to do exceptionally well!

Mit herzlichen Glückwünschen,

MFL Tomlinscote

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année!

Fröhliche Weihnachten und ein glückliches NeuesJahr!

¡Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo!

Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan!

Shinnen omedeto! Kurisumasu Omedeto!

Christmas in France - Petit Papa Noël

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Here is another version of 'Petit Papa Noël'. Which one do you prefer?

Watch out for the cute dog in the video!

Christmas in Germany - Frohe Weihnachten!

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DID you know? Here are some German Christmas traditions:

In Germany, children get a little surprise to make the long wait till Christmas a bit easier. On the 6th of December is Nikolaus (St. Nicholas day). The night before, children put out their shoes and in the morning they find some sweets or a little present in them.

...but only if they have been good! If they were bad, they might find a piece of coal or some sticks...

The main Christmas celebrations happen in Germany already on the 24th of December. On Heiligabend (holy evening) people have a big festive dinner with their immediate family and afterwards they open their presents!
On the 25th of December, they meet up with more family members for lunch and have yet another feast!

Christmas Traditions in Spain - ¡Feliz Navidad!

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DID you know? Spain has someinteresting traditions at this time of year:

Children in Spain don'treally get presents at Christmas, but they have to wait until the 6th ofJanuary, when Three Kings Day (el dia de los ReyesMagos) is celebrated. It's the day the three kings arrived in Bethlehem to see the new born Christ.

On the night of the 5th ofJanuary, children put out shoes filled with straw for the kings' donkeys andcamels, as well as some sweets for the kings themselves. The next morning, they wake tofind that the hay and sweets have been eaten and that presents are waiting forthem next to their shoes.

Later in the day, there areparades in the streets called theCabalgata de los Reyes Magos. Accompanied by festive lights and music, nativity scenes are acted out. The three kings ride on horses, camels or elaborate floats and throw goodies and sweets down to the children lining the streets.

In recent years, somechildren have been very lucky and have also received presents from Santa butmostly, Santa has left this job to the Kings on the 6th January!

Another interesting traditionis celebrated at midnight on New Year's Eve:
You eat 12 grapes,one on every stroke of the clock of Midnight.
This is believed to bring goodluck for the next year!
Apparently, you can even buyspecial little tins of 12 grapes in the shops for this purpose!

some vocabulary for you:

Christmas eve is called Nochebuena(good/lovely night)

NewYear's Eve is called Nochevieja(old night)

Gracias to Ms Burford for providing the information.

Joyeux Noël - two Christmas songs in French

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Here's a French Christmas song to get you into the merry mood! Do you recognise the melody?

It's called 'Vive le vent'.

Here are the lyrics, if you want to sing along:

Vive le vent, vive le vent,
vive le vent d'hiver
qui s'en va sifflant, soufflant
dans les grands sapins verts.

Vive le temps, vive le temps,
vive le temps d'hiver
boules de neige et jour de l'an
et bonne année grand-mère.

Sur le long chemin
tout blanc de neige blanche
un vieux monsieur s'avance avec
sa canne dans la main
et tout là-haut le vent qui siffle
dans les branches puis souffle
la romance qu'il chantait petit enfant

Et le vieux monsieur descend
vers le village
C'est l'heure où tout est sage
et l'ombre danse au coin du feu
Mais dans chaque maison
il flotte un air de fête
partout la table est prête
et l'on entend
la même chanson

and here's another one, called 'Petit Papa Noël' - do you know what that means?

here are the lyrics for this one: Use a dictionary to look up new words!

1. C'est la belle nuit de Noël
La neige étend son manteau blanc
Et les yeux levés vers le ciel
A genoux les petits enfants
Avant de fermer les paupières
Font une dernière prière

refrain:

Petit Papa Noël
Quand tu descendras du ciel
Avec tes jouets par milliers
N'oublie pas mon petit soulier

2. Mais avant de partir,
Il faudra bien te couvrir
Dehors, tu vas avoir si froid
C'est un peu à cause de moi.

Il me tarde tant que le jour se lève
Pour voir si tu m'as apporté
Tous les beaux joujoux
Que je vois en rêve
Et que je t'ai commandés

3. Le marchand de sable est passé
Les enfants vont faire dodo
Et tu vas pouvoir commencer
Avec ta hotte sur le dos
Au son des cloches des églises
Ta distribution de surprises

4. Et quand tu seras sur ton beau nuage
Viens d'abord sur notre maison
Je n'ai pas été tous les jours très sage
Mais j'en t'en demande le pardon
Ho-ho-ho! Enjoy!

Fröhliche Weihnacht Überall - Michelle

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Year 7s who went to Ravenscote last year will remember this song from their Christmas assembly.
Do you remember the lyrics? Sing along!

'Fröhliche Weihnacht überall' tönet durch die Lüfte froher Schall!
Weihnachtston, Weihnachtsbaum, Weihnachtsduft in jedem Raum.
'Fröhliche Weihnacht überall' töntet durch die Lüfte froher Schall!

1. Darum alle stimmet in den Jubelton,
denn es kommt das Licht der Welt von des Vaters Thron.

2. Licht auf dunklem Wege, unser Licht bist du,denn du führst,
die dir vertrau'n, ein zu sel'ger Ruh'.

Feliz Navidad by Enrique Iglesias

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Something for our Spanish learning students....Enrique, how do you spend your Christmas?

Weihnachtsmarkt in London

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If you are heading to London these days, make sure you have look at the Weihnachtsmarkt at the South Bank. It's probably the best German Christmas market experience you get get outside of Germany, with authentic sausages and mulled wine (and nonalcoholic punch) in ceramic mugs to take away. You can even buy a Weihnachtspyramide and Räuchermännchen.
Otherwise, there's the Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park, also based on German Christmas markets. If anyone has been to one of these or to the real thing in Germany, send us your pictures!

almost like in Germany

Räuchermännchen

typical German Christmas decorations

eine Bratwurst, bitte

Last Christmas - auf deutsch!

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'Tis that time of year again when you can't escape the merry mood. Here is our first contribution to get you into the Christmas spirit. Frau Mahler's favourite Alexi Bexi has produced Wham's classic seasonal hit in German. Put on your reindeer antlers and sing along!
"Letzte Weihnacht gab ich dir mein Herz, doch am nächsten Tag hast du es verschenkt.
Dieses Jahr, um mich vor Tränen zu wahr'n, bekommt es jemand Besonderes!"

Danke schön an Chiara Giovanni for finding Alexi Bexi for me last Christmas!

Student of the Month November 2011 - 2

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Here are more Students of the Month
from the French department:

Madame Rinjonneau would like to nominate
Jack Phillips in 9P for excellent behaviour and consistent hard work, as well as Jackson Keen in 10K for really good work! Keep going!! Well done to both of you!

Monsieur Daniel is presenting three year 9 students particularly worthy of our attention.
Marta Mungai, Andrew Lacey and Katherine Rowett have produced these fantasic texts as part of their assessments, which means that they were completed under exam conditions, with no dictionaries, books or other reference material for help! What a very impressive level of communication, complexity and accuracy. Some year 11s could learn from this.... Congratulations!

Student of the Month - November 2011

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This month, we are celebrating the following students:

For Japanese, Ms Yamanouchi has declared Rianna Waren in 9Q as her student of the month for November. Well done to Rianna!

Madame Boniface, one of our MFL outreach teachers, is nominating a whole class for a special mention here: Year 6 studying French at Lakeside Primary School have done amazing work on the song 'Sur sous dans devant derriere' and have produced excellent written work about their homes and bedrooms. Also their attitude towards learning French is superb and it is a pleasure to teach them!

For Spanish, our student of the month is Halle Fowler in 9Q. She is working exceptionally hard in Spanish this year and has produced this beautiful weather forecast for Mrs Metcalfe. Very impressive work!

Meine Haustiere - primary pets

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Frau Mahler's Year 6 German classes at Ravenscote Junior School have been describing their pets. Here are some examples: These are Sophie B's cats!

...and here is Max B's dog!

and here is Rebecca R -with Calum's guinea pig!

Sind sie nicht wunderbar!?

Transition Project KS2-3

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All year 7 classes have taken part in a KS2 -3 transition project in which children had to produce a video about their school. Building on language learned in primary school and extending it with new structues and vocabulary, pupils had to write a script in French or German and film it using flipcams or the webcams on their laptops. Each class then chose the best videos and these were shown to other classes on the 23 of November.

Here is the fabulous result of one of the groups!

They are Funmi, Hannah, Caroline, Charlotte, Lucy L, Lucy M all in 7Y. Magnifique!

(It might take a while for the video to load - please be patient -it is worth the wait!)

German video - Improve your English!

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Have a look at this hilarious video. It's not just other languages which are difficult to learn. Foreigners struggle with English, too....

Primary Languages: Laternen

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As part of their outreach MFL lessons provided by Tomlinscote, children in year 5 at Ravenscote Junior School have enjoyed a visit by a teacher from Germany telling them about the German tradition of Laternelaufen and showing them how to make lanterns.
Here are some of them:

German exchange 2011 - reports

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Here are some accounts by students who took part in this year's exchange programme to Germany. They stayed for ten days with a German host family, went to school in Wendlingen and enjoyed day trips to the surrounding areas, like the Schwäbische Alb and Stuttgart. They had a great time!

die Schwäbische Alb, seen from the castle

das Schloss

in der Höhle

im Zoo

die Seehunde

If you are thinking of going next year, ask any of these lovely people if they enjoyed their time in Germany...

French video: Cette année là

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Here's another slightly cheesy but very catchy French video recommended by Madame Merle! Enjoy!

Juchuuu!

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We didn't quite make it in the first month of the reinvigoration of the blog, but a few days later here we are:
1000 pageviews! Frau Mahler is happy! Danke schön, merci, gracias and thank you!

Any ideas, video, songs you'd like to see here, write a comment or a mail to mmahler@tomlinscote.surrey.sch.uk

Student of the Month - October 2011 (2)

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We have more students of the month from the French department: Madame Rinjonneau has nominated
Phoebe Johnson in 8C and Victoria Ormston in 7K
as the students standing out for great work and effort! Fantastique!

The German department has declared Tia Giovanni in 8G student of the month.
Here is her very impressive writing assignment! Wunderbar!

Year 8 WritingAssesssment

Hallo! Ich heiße Tia und ich bin zwölf Jahre alt. Mein Geburtstag ist am fünfundzwanzigstenOktober. Am Wochenende fahre ich Rad. Zusätzlich spiele ich Fußball. Ich lese gern, weil esinterresant ist. Am Samstag spiele ich Computerspielen, obwohl es langweiligist. Mein Lieblingshobby ist Tanzen, weil es Spaß macht. Außerdem liebe ich Lesen. Dreimalpro Woche sehe ich Fern. Am Wochenende gehe ich gern mit meinen Freuden, Amy undDaniella, in die Stadt. Ich spiele gern Fußball mit meinen Freuden,Michelle, weil es Spaß macht. Samstags laufe ich, weil es friedlich ist. Ichfahre gern Rad mit meinen Freuden, obwohl es ziemlich langweilig ist. Sonntags,spiele ich Rugby, weil es toll ist. Letztes Wochenende bin ich in die Stadtgegangen, weil ich Apfelsaft kaufen musste. Außerdem habe ich Rugby mit meinenFreuden gespielt. Am Samstag bin ich Rad gefahren, weil es Spaß machte. Am Sonntag, bin ich insKino mit meinen Freunden, Sven und Michelle, gegangen. Zusätzlich habe ich Fisch und Chipsgegessen. Ich habe Cola getrunken. Ich habe es sehr gut gefunden. Außerdem habe ich toll gefunden, weiles gern Rad gefahren. Schließlich habe ich es fantastich gefunden.

Tia Giovanni 8G

the Wonders of the German Language (Outnumbered)

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James Smith from 6M/S in Ravenscote has brought this lovely clip to my attention.
It's from the BBC series 'Outnumbered' and features a German exchange student and some wise explanations on German compounds. "It's cool being German! It's like being Yoda." Couldn't agree more.
A big Danke schön to James!

10.000!!!

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We've had 10.000 visitors to our blog since it first came into existence (back in December 2007).

Since its refurbishment, we've had lots of people popping in and looking at what's happening at Tomlinscote and on our trips, and reading who's done wonderful work!

Scroll down to the revolving globe at the bottom to see where in the world people have looked at our blog (each click leaves a red dot). Tell your uncle in New Zealand that you're our student of the month and watch his dot appear. You can also see how many visitors we've had since the 7 October 2011. Currently 888!
Can we make it one thousand in the first month??

Tell all your friends the blog is back!

Leave your comments and suggestions: What do you think of the blog? What do you want to see here?

Mr Daniel's Favourite Song

2011-11-04T10:13:00.000Z

Here is Mr Daniel's current favourite French song:
Help myself (Nous ne faisons que passer) by Gaëtan Roussel.
The album (Ginger) reached number 7 in the French charts and became platinum album (more than 100,000 copies sold). It also got the Rock Album of the Year award in 2011.

Student of the Month - Chinese comments

2011-11-03T20:00:00.005Z

謝謝大大無私分享感恩唷(>o<)

Have a look at our cool Chinese comments on the student of the month from May last year. They were waiting in the blog's spam folder, but I've been assured they are all genuine comments probably remarking on Katie Hammond's wonderful work! Check out the other comments as well by following the link!

你的努力我們都看見了--支持你 on Students of the Month, May 2010

PS Can someone translate them for me???

Student of the Month - October 2011

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Our fantastic students of the month for October are:

For Japanese it's Georgina Rawlings from 11 X!
Well done to you! It's amazing how many of our students give up their free time to learn Japanese and Chinese early in the mornings or in the afternoons. Respect to you all! You're all stars!!

For the French department, we have Jacob Davenport, Patrick Lynch, Lewis Reid, Ryan Taylor, Alfie Ashley and Scott Simpkin, all from 7Y.

The boys produced this lovely and very accurate piece of work together as part of their KS2 to KS3 transition project. We're looking forward to seeing the videos our year seven classes are currently filming about their new school! All in French and German! Watch this space!

German and Spanish to follow soon! Check the blog next week!

French video: Lalalele

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Here is another suggestion by Madame Merle: the la le song -a bit of brainwashing about the articles in French.
Listen to the whole song and see if you can resist singing along! Lalalalalalalalala -feminine....

Do leave a comment!

Have YOU come across any great or silly videos in another language? Sends us the link via the comments!
Maybe we can feature it on the blog for everyone to see!

German Video: Nur noch kurz die Welt retten

2011-10-21T12:54:00.000+01:00

A little German song for you for the holidays. Tim Bendzko from Berlin might well be the 'Newcomer des Jahres' in Germany. It's called "Nur noch kurz die Welt retten" (just have to save the world). Enjoy!

Here is the song with the German lyrics and a decent (if not perfect) attempt at an English translation....(under 'show more')

Student of the Month - September 2011

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The sudent of the month for the French department is Caroline Hackney in 7Y, who has written this very convincing piece of homework. Fantastique!

French exchange - we're back!

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Despite industrial action that caused traffic chaos around Lille and delayed our departure, we were back to Tomlinscote only 20 minutes later than expected.

Miss Barnes, Miss Menon, Matthieu Fontaine, Mr Daullet and I would like to congratulate the student party for their behaviour throughout the trip, as well as their general approach to all aspects of the exchange.

WELL DONE! FELICITATIONS!

French exchange - 6th Form Work Experience

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Our 6th Formers were given the opportunity to work as classroom assistants on the primary school site. Not only did they impress staff and students with their enthusiasm, but also with the 'incredible level of French they display' (quote from a French primary school teacher).

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Sophie with the Year 2 class

Sarah with the Year 4 class

Rosie with the Year 5 and 6 students

Unfortunately, we didn't manage to see all our 6th Formers in action but the French teachers were full of praise for Jade and George too. Apologies for not being able to show pictures of them on the blog.

French exchange - in and around Lille

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Just a few snaps of the area.
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How can you resist?

Ellie, Jess, Halle and Cherie can't!

And neither can Kieran and Ryan...

A typical French Sunday in Lille - drinks with friends and shopping at the market

Queuing up for their bread

French Exchange - school time

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Friday and Monday, Year 9, 10 and 11 students attended lessons in the French school. Feedback ranged from 'so boring' to' we taught them how to play rounders' and 'the music teacher made us sing Adèle to the French students'!
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Rounders time


The French students are listening carefully to the expert coaching tips

Go on Aden; show them how it's done

No rest for the wicked - time to write an account of the trip so far

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The French teachers invariably reported on the positive attitude and contributions of the Tomlinscote students they had in their lessons. Special mention must be made of Charlotte and Amy in Year 10 who managed to complete the Maths classwork correctly before any of the French students!

All in all, the general impression seems to be that, interesting as it may be to sample for a couple of days, an eight-period day (8.00 till 5.30) is not really worth considering at Tomlinscote! There are many very tired faces going round the school at the moment.

French Exchange - pancake evening

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On Friday night, all exchange students were given the opportunity to relax and have a good time together, whilst their teachers were busy cooking pancakes for them and serving them drinks.
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Rees kindly looked after the musical side of things with a few chosen tunes that he played for the delight of everyone present. The audience thanked him with a spontaneous round of applause, as all were impressed with the skills displayed.
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PASCH launch

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For a more detailled account of our PASCH launch event at the end of last month, and more fotos, follow this link from the Goethe Institute. http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lp/lhr/par/prj/en8270085.htm

French Exchange - visit to Paris

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Yesterday, Tomlinscote and NDP students got the opportunity to spend the whole day together as part of our day trip to Paris. It was another early start and after a 2 and a half hour coach journey which enabled British and French students to bond further, we started to discover some of the magnificent landmarks in Paris.

The coach tour of the city included the Stade de France, the Eiffel Tower, the Champs Elysées avenue, Concorde square, the Grand and Petit Palais museums, as well as the Sacré Coeur church, Louvre museum and Notre-Dame cathedral from the distance.

This tour was followed by a picnic prepared by the French families, in the pleasant surroundings of the Tuileries gardens.

Once everyone had enjoyed their lunch, we walked all the way up to the top of the Champs Elysées avenue where we found the Arc de Triomphe and the mad parisian traffic around it. We climbed to the top of the Arc de Triomphe (284 steps!!!) to make the most of the magnificent view that greeted us. This seemed to be one of the highlights of the day for many students.

The rest of the day consisted in some free (shopping?) time on the Champs Elysées and a long journey back (made worse by the traffic jams on the périphérique ring-road).


Everyone awake? Let's go!

La Tour Eiffel

Le Grand Palais

L'obélisque place de la Concorde

Lunch time at last!

L'Arc de Triomphe


This is what 284 steps look like!

Tired?

La Défense in the background


Le Sacré Coeur

Les Champs Elysées and Le Louvre in the background

Montparnasse tower

a roof garden

New friends?

Not again! What's with them?

Shopping time!!!

Time to go back to Lille

French Exchange - Paris

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Our day trip to Paris went well today. Although it was another very long day, all students seem to have enjoyed the outing. -

Not easy to fit 120 people in one picture!

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Please check the blog again tomorrow for some students' accounts and more photos.

German Exchange 2011 update

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Heute waren wir in der Schule und beim Bürgermeister im Rathaus!
Today we were in school and in the town hall. The students were smartly dressed for the visit to the mayor of Wendlingen.


Reading out loud in front of an A level class can be nerve wracking, but they did really well!

Helping to analyse short-stories

With their German partners between lessons

In a music lesson (they said the teacher was 'legend')

Helping with a year 7 class

At the town hall

Listening to the mayor (or Frau Mahler's translations)

Signing the mayor's visitors' book

German Exchange 2011

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Hallo und grüßGott aus Deutschland!

This year's Tomlinscote exchange students have embraced the German way of life, enjoying Brezelnand the beautiful sights in Stuttgart and Schwäbische Alb. They have beenpractising their German enthusiastically and successfully, and have made manyfriends. We have received many compliments on their fantastic attitude andbehaviour, and they have impressed us with the eagerness with which they tackleevery activity –including filling in booklets in German (well done Dane!) andwalking for ages without a single moan –at a German PE teacher’s pace. They are a joy tobe around and are having a lovely time.
Frau Sparkes & Frau Mahler (the A Team)

Chloe about to enjoy a birthday Brezel.

At Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof on Tuesday.

At the castle in Stuttgart

Reece getting his first Brezel of the day.

Listening to a guided tour in Stuttgart -ask them about fat Friedrich!

The tour is about to start at Schloss Lichtenstein

About to enter the Wimsener Cave

At Schloss Lichtenstein

Walking to Zwiefalten

Chilling in Zwiefalten

We would love to receive comments from parents and students alike! Tschüß!

French Exchange - first day in Lille

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The day started bright and early, sharing experiences and anecdotes with each other, without forgetting to write down a few memories in the booklets too. Some students seemed to be coping better with the early start than others...
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As for our 6th Formers, I'm not sure they were feeling all that well!
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Then, it was time to investigate the local food at the nearby market.
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And as usual, the roast chicken, potato and sausage sandwiches encountered the most success, even at 9.30 in the morning!
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Josh had other ideas in mind though...
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Traditional photos on the main square.
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And after the treasure hunt, it was back to school to wait for the French to come out of their lessons and discuss the morning events.
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A bientôt.

French Exchange - on the way to France!

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Despite travel chaos on the M3, we managed to set off just after 9.30 in order to catch our Shuttle as scheduled. After a peaceful journey, we arrived in Lille at 4.00 to meet the French students.

Jessie J - Alexi Bexi: English Songs in German

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Have a look at Alexi Bexi's videos. He translates songs into German.
Here is Jessie J's Price Tag, turned into 'Preisschild':

'Kohle' (coal) is a German slang word for money. Check out his other videos! What do you think of them? Leave a comment!

Student of the Month - September 2011

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'Student of the Month' is back, where we acknowledge and praise the hard work and extraordinary achievements of special students at Tomlinscote: This month's stars are:

Japanese:
Ms Yamanouchi nominates Rianna Waren (9Q) as the student of the month. She is always punctual, her homework is completed immaculately, she obtains 100% in the mini tests every time, and she does more than I tell her too (When I told her to write one sentence, she handed in MANY sentences).

Spanish:
Sra. Burford is full of praise for Sam Liddle (9R). He has shown outstanding effort and contribution, alsways asks when stuck and makes excellent effort with his spoken presentation.

German:
Have a look at this wonderful piece of work by Michelle Li (8Q). Frau Christian was very impressed!

Well done to all of you!

PASCH intensive German course

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Here is the account by Charlotte Lauder, one of the three new German language ambassadors who went on a three week residential intensive German course in Schwäbisch Hall:

On 31^st July 2011 Dayna, Chiara and I departedfor Schwäbisch Hall, near Stuttgart in Germany for a Goethe Institute PASCHYouth course, undoubtedly one of the best experiences of our lives.

There were 60 students from 12 different countries on thecourse, including people from Ecuador, the USA, Great Britain, Spain, Belgium,Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Ukraine, Estonia, Ghana, China and South Korea.For 3 weeks we lived together in a guest house.......

and attended classes inintensive German. When we arrived we had expected to be put together in a room,however we were all split up and everything was done to encourage us to speakas much German as possible! I was put with a girl from Bosnia and a girl fromSouth Korea and we are now the best of friends. On the second evening we had aKennenlernabend, where we got to know each other and it was the beginning ofsome great friendships!

Our lessons took placein a Fachhochschule, an old university in the town that was only 2 minutes walkfrom the Goethe Institute, where we were able to use the library and have ourlunch every day. At the beginning of the course we took a grammar exam to putus into our classes, Chiara and I were put into Rainer’s Class, we focused onlearning about history. My German definitely improved considerably throughoutthe course because we were forced to speak German to one another all the time!Near the end of the course everyone took an official Goethe Institute exam,ranging from A1 to C1.

At the beginning of the course we also picked a project towork on throughout our 3 weeks, either the course magazine, theatre or aproject about mobility. All 3 of us chose to take part in theatre, where weeither took part in the play Geldkäppchen – Little Yellow Riding Hood (inhonour of the Goethe Institute), or Aschenputtel – Cinderella, which weperformed at our leaving evening at the end of the course. We wrote anddirected the plays ourselves so it was a really big achievement for us at theend!

Every Saturday we wenton excursions, on the first Saturday we visited Nuremberg, first visiting aDokumentationszentrum in the morning and then shopping in the afternoon! Thesame evening we had a Flirt Party and people could write anonymous letters toone another, a lot of fun even though we really were exhausted at the end ofthe day!

On the following Saturday we visited Stuttgart, the capitalof the state of Baden-Württemberg. In the morning we visited a Mercedes-BenzMuseum and in the afternoon we were given free time in the city. That night wealso had a Switch Party, where the boys had to dress up as girls and the girlsas boys!

During the course we also had a Länderabend, when eachcountry did a presentation about where they came from and we also tried oneanother’s food. This along with evenings involving sport, singstar, the musicevening, beauty evenings and parties are what probably made the course mostmemorable for us and allowed us to really bond with each other.

However the leaving evening was definitely the mostmemorable, when some classes sang a song, the projects presented theirfindings, and awards from the course were given out. Michael from Greece also playedthe piano, which was a regular occurrence on the course! The evening ended veryemotionally, considering we still had one final day until we all had to say ourfinal farewells…

The very final evening was celebrated with a party and thatnight, as a gesture of the amazing friendships we had made, everybody stayed upall night because those from Ecuador had to leave at 3.30am. It was extremelydifficult to say a final goodbye and everybody was very emotional but we areall still in contact and we are all sure that we have made some amazinglong-life friendships through this unforgettable experience!

French Music - Soulman

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Madame Merle wants you to have a look at this cool guy! What a voice!

Now listen again, read the lyrics and sing along!