KinderUni

On the 29 September, all year 7 children learning German attended their first university lecture!

As part of their KinderUni project the Goethe-Institut organised a guest speaker for us from Bielefeld University. Frau Demirkaya from the Faculty of Linguistics and Literature taught the young students about 'How languages work'. They listened to sound bites in several languages, worked out grammar patterns, identified word order rules, looked at how other languages write and even learned some Turkish!
In the afternoon, year 6 classes at Ravenscote had the opportunity to attend their first (Kinder-) Uni lecture. The children thought it was really interesting and were very proud to feel like proper students!

A big Danke schön to the speaker and Frau Soylucicek from the Goethe-Institut for these interesting talks!

Students of the Month, May 2010

Congratulations to the Students of the Month for the work completed in May! The work was of a very high standard and it was hard to select the best work. The stars and their work can be found below.
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Spanish: Gerard Suen, 8Q
(This work was completed using only a dictionary as part of an assessment)




Chinese: Katie Hammond, 8Q


French: Ryan McCawley, Yr7

Science and French!

7H and 7R students have been looking at what happens when an ice cube melts in their science lessons. They then wrote up their findings in French!
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Ellen Leany 7H





Esme Parsons 7H


Anna Hayward 7R


Rian McCawley


Jamie O'Connor 7H

Outstanding Chinese Work

Congratulations to the students who produced high quality work in their Chinese lessons. Below are two examples.

Katie Hammond 8Q





Sophie Spencer 9R

Eurovision 2010 - Spain

Daniel Diges is an experienced singer and actor, who cut his teeth as a live singer on stage. He was recently awarded the Spanish national theatre prize for the best musicals' actor. Diges has starred in the great majority of hit musicals which have been staged in Spain.

Besides music and theatre, Daniel has wide television experience as an actor in many drama and comedy series, and also as presenter and singer on a weekly children’s show.

(Information from www.eurovision.tv)

Eurovision 2010 - Germany

It’s a story that only pop music could write. Lena Meyer-Landrut from Hanover is actually right in the middle of preparing for her high school exams. She’s doing Biology, Sport and History and she’s got a lot of revising to do. But now she’s going to be representing Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest in the Norwegian capital Oslo. On the 29th of May, 2010, just after her 19th birthday, she’ll be up on the big stage performing the song Satellite. “It’s going to be hard going up to the exams in April, but I’ll manage,” she says with a sigh. “Then it will almost be relaxing to head off to the Eurovision final.”

(Information from the Eurovision website)

Eurovision 2010 - France

France will try to win the hearts of Europe in Oslo with a real summer hit this year. For that they handpicked the charismatic singer Jessy Matador.

Jessy Matador began his artistic career as a dancer in 2001. His artistic concept is a mixture of several styles, inspired by the famous African - Ivorian music ranging from hip-hop, jamaican dancehall and zouk.

He made his debut in the group called Les Coeurs Brisés with which he has performed all around the world. He started his singing career in 2008 and has scored a summer hit with the song Decale Gwada. Jessy is currently in the studio finishing his new album.

(Information from Eurovision website)

Congratulations!!

Congratulations to the Primary students who have achieved their Asset Languages Awards! Well done on all your hard work!