French language immersion

18 NHS students are currently travelling in France on a cultural immersion tour - one week in school and 7 days of sightseeing! Thanks to Ms Keane and Mr Hubert for their enthusiastic leadership of our travellers! Ms Keane writes: 

We're writing to you while drinking coffee and eating pain au chocolat as the students study !!!

Everything is going really well. Today is the third day of language lessons. Classes start at 8.45 and finish at 1. We supply them with pastry during the break, although today the kids have requested fruit because they're getting lots of rich French food from the home stay families! On Monday after class, we had a tour of the city centre and the kids had a treasure hunt activity to orient themselves. Nothing motivates students to ask questions in French to strangers more than the idea of prizes! Our winners were Ned, Riley and Nico!  Yesterday we had a full day excursion to Mont St Michel. It was a long day, left at 8.30, back at 7pm. Three hours each way on the bus. It was a beautiful day! 28 degrees and sunny. Two more days in Rouen. Saturday we do the D-Day beaches and Bayeux Tapestry before taking a train to Paris.