Year 3 at Parish CE Primary have been getting ready for Autumn.
hey have acted out an Autumn poem; played a leaf game where they could win a point for their team if they could accurately say the colour and number on the leaves in our make believe forest.
They have practised writing the colours in French on leaves.
Year 4 at Barrowhall Primary have all become superheroes!
They have learnt how to say that they are strong, brave etc. and are working on creatingtheir own superhero displays for their classrooms.
The children leaning French in Yr 1 & 2 at Locking Stumps learned about travel last half term.
They used the KS1 lesson activities on our Primary Languages VLE based on Thomas the Tank Engine.
The children loved it and also enjoyed performing the actions and the song for 'Les roues de l'autobus'!
We think this is a really simple but intersting activity with children who have already learnt French or Spanish etc in KS1. The language teacher looked at numbers 0-20 again but this time take a look at what she has to say .....
With Yr 3 we have been learning the numbers up to 20 (as in my schools the children have been learning French throughout the infants too) and they played a game where they to had the match the English number words with the French number words up to 20. It was very interesting! We discussed cognates and sounds of letters and how they look completely different to how they are said in English.
The Year 3 children at Broomfields CP are just starting to learn Mandarin.this is what the class teacher and language specialist has to say....
"In Year 3 at Broomfields Junior School, we have started learning Mandarin Chinese! So far, the children have learnt a song with greetings and actions in, they can answer the register as if they were Chinese pupils, we can introduce ourselves and are now learning to introduce family members. At the end of September we learnt about the Mid-Autumn 'moon' festival and made storyboards of the legend of Chang E and Hou Yi. We have had a go at writing Chinese characters and are starting to recognise how they are made up of the different 'radicals'.
The children are so keen to share what they've learnt with friends and people at home and we will soon be ready to send some pictures and videos of the children's work to our link school in Xi'an. As a French language specialist myself, it is exciting to be learning a new language, alongside the children!
One top tip for assessment which I used this week with family member flashcards: The children each had a set of cards. They memorised their position on the desk then turned them over. When I called out the phrase 'This is my brother' for example, in Chinese, which meant they had to listen for a specific word, the children picked the card they thought was correct and held it close to their chests. At my command, all children showed their cards and were so proud to have chosen the correct one - instant visual assessment of a listening skill!"
Transition from KS2 to KS3
Our Transition networks are running well this year and working hard to successfully develop shared understanding of KS2 and KS3 Y7 language learning.
Thanks to everyone involved in the Penketh, The Heath, Sir William Stanier, Sir Thomas Boteler and Birchwood transition groups.
Please get in touch with Janet should your area like to set up a transition group on our Primary Languages VLE!
Fireworks Poem
The KS2 children at Birchwood CE are being language detectives this week in school. The children in different year groups are using the same poem for different language learning reasons.
In Year 3 and Year 4 the children are reading the poem about fireworks to revise colours.
Year 5 and Year 6 are using the poekm to investigate the topic of fireworks and colours to practise adjectival agreements and will then use dictionaries to look up words that can be replaced in the text.
Rocket Bookmark
Year 5 at Woolston CP finished off their focus on "school" with our Aliens at School animated story.
Back to School Alien Story
The children looked at the structure of the text, read for understanding and then focused on one particular slide - literacy and created their own "outer space bookmarks" with great bilingual dictionary work.
The bookmarks look fantastic too!
We love the fact that the Year 6 children at Christ Church CE are following our Primary Languages SOW plus ... but with a creative twist.
As they are looking at daily routines the class language teacher has decided to compare modern day life to life in prehistoric times.
The children will create their own "Stone Age Daily Routine Texts" using our Cross Curricular resources on prehistoric daily life from our Primary Languages VLE.
Year 6 have been taking a look at the language in our bonfire poem this week.
The children looked at the nouns, adjectives and verbs and then went on to write ther own "bonfire poems".
Next week the class will peer mark each others' poems.
Great idea!
