Vive La France!!!! - Today is Bastille Day!

Bonjour tout le monde!

We celebrated our annual French Day back in February, but today in France (July 14th) is Bastille Day - a national holiday and very important celebration of French history and society.

You might remember learning about Bastille Day and the French Revolution on July 14th last year, but in case you do not remember, here is a video for you!

If you want to see how different the Bastille Day celebrations were this year, here is a video from Paris this morning, showing the parades and ceremonies that took place -with far fewer people and crowds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5FgpcAo2Gg

Why not use the following video to make a cockade (cocarde in French), which is a special badge rosette that became a symbol of the revolution and Bastille Day......

Bastille Day celebrations at Manor Way

To celebrate Bastille Day, on Friday 14th July the children at Manor Way took part in a day of fun-filled cross-curricular French activities.

The day started with le petit dejeuner (un jus d'orange et un croissant) and continued with a quiz au sujet de la France. We even had Madame Ansell present the Friday Achievement Assembly in fluent français, to allow us the chance to listen to authentic French speaking. 

Then over the course of the day classes took part in variety of workshops with their professeurs, such as Mime, Découpage, Eiffel Tower building and Perfume sampling. Classes also went outside to play games such as Pétanque, Ballon Château and Jeux de Beret. 

At lunchtime, we had the chance to order our dinner such as quiche and petits pois in French and the special invitees to the Bannockburn Bistro had a very special serveuse to wait on them. Each year group also learnt a chanson too during a special French Singing assembly.

"I loved French Day - it was so fun doing all the different activities, especially Miming" - Year 5 pupil.

"The breakfast was delicious and I enjoyed trying to speak French with the ladies in the dining hall" - Year 4 pupil.

"French Day was brilliant - I loved seeing the children so engaged in their learning and using their language skills." - Teacher