French Focus

Bonjour à tous!

It’s hard to believe that we are already in April! One of the highlights in the French room this term has been the celebration of Harmony Day. Harmony Day is a celebration of cultures and languages. The core message of Harmony Day is ‘Everyone Belongs’.

Harmony Day

As a language teacher, I feel particularly passionate about the meaning of Harmony Day.  One of the overarching purposes of offering language programs is to support our children to celebrate and discover a passion for other languages and cultures.

Students across the school were provided with opportunities to reflect on the meaning of the day and their own cultural backgrounds during their French lessons in Harmony Week.

Our Year 6 students had an additional leadership opportunity in organising activities for the day. They were provided with a brief which involved planning different lunchtime activities to run for all students Foundation – Year 5. These activities were required to promote inclusion and celebration of other cultures in some way.

Some of the nominated activities included making friendship bracelets, a design your own flag task, and a scavenger hunt involving different flags of the world. These flags were sewn at home by Shanaia and Cheyenne. There were also self-portraits, collaborative games using the parachutes, and a basketball shooting task where students were required to say hello in another language before having a go at shooting a hoop.

Many Year 6  students sacrificed lunchtimes in the lead up to the day to prepare these activities for students across the school. They demonstrated leadership and hardwork in order to run the day successfully. Félicitations!

Où es Pepito…?

Where is Pepito…? One of the great mysteries of Fairfield Primary School this term has been the disappearance of our beloved French classroom bear, Pepito. After much speculation about his whereabouts we received a mystery carte postale from Paris…

Hopefully we will receive another carte postale with an update on the location of our French mascot (with a Spanish name) in term two…

As always, please don’t hesitate to pop into the French room if you have any questions or just to say ‘Bonjour’.

~ Emily Lindsay-Smith, French Teacher