French in the Forest School

This week  Year 5 are taking their French lessons outside and used our Manor Way Forest School as their learning space.

As part of the lesson, the children took part in a Sentence Search, where they hunted high and low for French and English translations of different sentences. All sentences contained the verb Jouer (to play) but using different pronouns; the children said it was a fun way to discover and explore French conjugation for the first time.

Here are Aspen and Rowan enjoying their outdoor learning.

Year 4 Spanish - la fruta y la gramática

Year 4 spent last term learning all about La Fruta and they started learning about how Spanish nouns have gender. They played games and completed tasks in pairs and small groups to sort their fruit vocabulary and understand how to recognise masculine and feminine nouns in Spanish. This knowledge will be useful to them as we progress through the rest of the Spanish curriculum via other topics.

Year 5 explore adjectival agreement

As part of their personal descriptions topic, Year 5 have been using the dictionaries to explore adjectival agreement. They have been discovering how French adjectives change their endings to match the nouns they describe - this is adjectival agreement.

"It's hard for us to understand because our language (English) doesn't have gender so we don't need to do this. It's fund using the dictionaries to look up works and work out the different spelling patterns."