I’m loving this video. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-BwDELPEERA&feature=youtu.be Continue reading Connectives

Year 7 pupils at IES recently wrote some letters to a school in Cameroon. A friend of mine from Paris went on an environmental mission in February to help save turtles in the area. Whilst he was there, he visited the local school and reported back on how little resources they had. My friend returned to Cameroon on Sunday and visited the school today. Below … Continue reading So exciting!

I have recently been sent a link to a teacher’s YouTube channel. It could be useful for revising vocabulary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXD2qMLgAcA Continue reading Appel aux fans de Youtube

🥐 Next in the series on the mnemonic CROISSANT (things to include in your writing to get top marks) is R for Reasons. Simply put, you should include a reason for your opinion, such as ‘J’adore le fromage parce que c’est fabuleux’. As well as parce que, you can use car which also means because. Puisque is another word you can use to add variety … Continue reading Reasons why

This was a resounding success – I can’t believe how many entries there were! We raised nearly ninety pounds for the Macmillan cancer trust. Photos below of just some of the brilliant entries. Merci pour votre participation Continue reading European Day of Languages Bake Off

This week is the IES Breckland exchange with an IES school near Alicante, in Southern Spain. I have just walked in to a German supermarket in Spain and had a trilingual conversation in French, German and Spanish! #lovinglanguages Continue reading Loving languages

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash Le président français Emmanuel Macron à décrit l’Afrique comme le continent de l’avenir. The French president Emmanuel Macron has described Africa as the continent of the future. Le français reste la langue officielle dans vingt pays d’Afrique en raison de son passé colonial. French remains the official language in twenty African countries because of its colonial past. Il y … Continue reading The future of French is African

I had totally forgotten about this website until I came across it again by chance tonight. Une pancarte is French for ‘sign’, la honte means ‘shame’. There are different categories on this cat shaming site (search the title of this blog post). Can you work out what Icare has done? Continue reading Les pancartes de la honte pour chats

I used to live in this medieval town in south-west France when they first started this archaeological dig. Archaeologists have discovered a sarcophagus from the 7th century. Inside was the skeleton of a Merovingian. Des archéologues ont découvert un sarcophage du VIIe siècle. À l’intérieur se trouvait le squelette d’une Mérovingienne. The skeleton belongs to “an older female individual, testifying to problems of osteoarthritis” and … Continue reading Un squelette retrouvé à Cahors