Year 8 Barcelona Trip

Twenty-eight Year 8 students have just returned from a fantastic trip to Barcelona. They visited places such as La Sagrada Familia, Las Ramblas, the Torres vineyard and Vilanova. They also learned new Spanish vocabulary and sampled Spanish cuisine, such as churros and paella!

Year 10 French Film Work!!

Miss Merle's Year 10 group watched 'Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain' and wrote a summary of the film. Here is their fabulous work!

February Student of the Month!

Congratulations to the MFL Students of the Month for their work in February!

Lucy Hall in 8H wrote a fantastic poem in French, Rianna Ripley in 9Q wrote a great description of her school in German, and Joe Wood from 8R wrote a brilliant piece during a written assessment (where no resource materials were allowed!).

Well done!

Lucy Hall, 8H

Rianna Ripley, 9Q

Joe Wood, 8R

Fliegerlied - So ein schöner Tag - Karneval Song

Tim Toupet - das Fliegerlied

Here's an example of a typical carnival song played at all the German Karnevalparties on Rosenmontag:

Tim Toupet, the singing hairdresser, with this absolute 'Ohrwurm'.

Can you resist the chorus? Heut' ist so ein schöner Tag! (Today is such a beautiful day!) Cheesy, or what?

Peter Fox: Alles Neu - Official Video

And here is Peter Fox from Berlin, winner of a German song contest, and with three songs in the charts at the moment.

This is his first big hit: Alles neu (all new).

A-Level French Work Experience

Some comments from the students:

The most challenging part of the trip for me was standing up in front of a class of 30 thirteen year olds and having to do a presentation on Hamlet in French. Having to answer the students questions meant you had to think and speak French quickly but also correctly.

As a student learning French it helped me enormously as it gave me the chance to meet lots of different French teenagers and gave me the confidence to speak to them. It allowed you to speak colloquial French to your partners and more authoritative French when leading classes.

One week doesn’t seem like a long time, but our French massively improved, as we were speaking it constantly with the students, the teachers and our host families.

Student of the Month - January, 2009!

Well done to Roman Latham in Year 8 (Spanish) and Amy Samuel in Year 7 (French)! They are the Students of the Month for the work that they produced in January . Their work can be seen below.

Welcome back!

Welcome back! The new academic year has started, and with this, we will be restarting the Tomlinscote MFL blog.

Student of the Month will start again in November, where students' work will be selected and displayed on the blog. We had some fantastic work being celebrated last year, and we are sure that the same will happen this academic year.

So, watch this space!