FRENCH

Rocamadour is one of France's most important tourist destinations and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  For centuries, it was a crucial pilgrimage site on the 'Way of Saint James'. Rising up 120 metres, this vertiginous Citadel of Faith is best summed up by an old local saying: 'Houses on the river, churches on the houses, rocks on the churches, castle on the rock'.

Rocamadour is also well known for:

• Its specialty cheese made with unpasteurized goat's. Presented in the shape of a small disk, Rocamadour cheese can either be eaten warm on a slice of walnut bread or in a salad and will undoubtedly tickle any cheese lover's tastebuds. In June, the Rocamadour cheese festival is celebrated on Pentecost Sunday with a large market, cheese tasting, live music and activities for the children.
• Its hot-air balloon Festival. Every last weekend of September, the annual hot air balloon Festival sees 30-odd participants from all over Europe taking to skies from the foot of the Sacred City. Over 20,000 spectators come to enjoy the show each year. Visitors can choose to watch from various slopes in the surrounding valley.
  There is also a fantastic firework display at night.
• Its summer pasture. Another of Rocamadour's events takes place in spring when hundreds of sheep migrate from Rocamadour to the uplands for the annual Transhumance. Visitors and locals are welcome to join the flock for a five day walk along the Dordogne's idyllic country lanes and paths guided by local shepherds that know the region like the back of their hand.

Bonjour tout le monde,

J'espère que vous allez bien.

All the students are back at school and we will soon be able to practice in class all the vocabulary and grammar concepts that they recorded while in remote learning.

• In Prep: we are finishing our topic 'Breakfast food'. Here is Gemma's beautiful work:

• In Years 1 and 2: we are also finishing our topic, school items.

• In Years 3 and 3/4: the students have finished their portfolio task about the French revolution and are also starting to learn vocabulary and grammar rules about school items. Here is Mathiang's beautifully labelled classroom drawing:

• In Years 4/5 and 5/6: The students have learned how to conjugate any regular '-er' verb in the present tense, which will now enable them to make more and more sentences on their own:

They have applied their knowledge to describe, with simple sentences, some scenes from the following animation (which will explain to you why socks always seem to disappear in the washing machine (now I understand :-)!!) and why French cheeses can be really smelly (but sooooo goooood)!! 

Lynn P. in Grade 4/5 has done an excellent work:

The French song of the week is 'Les séquoias' by a very talented young artist called Pomme:

Have a nice week and take good care of yourselves.

A bientôt,

Delphine