Languages at Northgate High, Dereham

UEA PGCE Talk

normalfornorthgate — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:58:02 +0000

If you want to track down resources or examples of projects at Northgate like the ones I showed you on Thursday, click here for some pointers. I enjoyed coming in to talk to you, although we could have done with an extra idea for you to bounce your ideas back! The link takes you to a post about last year’s Languages World, where I gave a very similar talk. And of course, don’t forget to sign up for this year’s Languages World!

Spanish revision

normalfornorthgate — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:31:56 +0000

Year 11 (and Year 10 Green Bottles). The Spanish page now has the vocabulary and reading texts we’ve been doing on:
Families, celebrations and relationships, Environment, Holidays. Click on the Spanish page link above and find the Year 11 section.

2011 in review

normalfornorthgate — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:12:54 +0000

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 12,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

Photos – machine for making French

normalfornorthgate — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:44:06 +0000

Here’s some photos of the kits you made plus your French kit. Remember what won in BOTH cases: Good structure with flashy bits added on.

And here’s your Pimp my Ride and your Pimp my French. The same things worked:personalisation, flashy bits, future, past. Sticking things on that jeopardised the overall roadworthiness didn’t work for the French either:

And, of course, your machines for making French.

Remember:
It is your job to have a kit of French that works
Good structure with flashy bits is best
Fiddly bits are sometimes important
French is easily assembled, just follow the rules
Do not lose or break your French. Use it, customise it, get expert at it.

Blueprint for Level 6 French Machine

normalfornorthgate — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:23:50 +0000

Here’s the instructions on how to build it plus the French to put in at the top. I’ve got the tape, the straws, the string, so ready to go tomorrow! I must remember to take some photos this week. And thanks to the Tech department for making the handles!

Instructions: Making a Level 6 French Machine

French: French level 6 machine French

A Machine for Level 6 French

normalfornorthgate — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:42:19 +0000

Year 9 after school reboot in French – thanks for another great session last Thursday. Again I love the way your Pimp my French matched your Pimp my Ride!

One group had cleverly personalised the pic of the Head’s car. And did the same with their French.
Another had cleverly built in flashy gadgets onto the Land Rover pic, and did the same with their French – good basic structure with flashy bits.
And another group stuck pictures of women and tatoos on the pic of my car. And their French was the same. Funny, naughty but with no overall structure and likely to fail its MOT.

This week, it’s Make a Level 6 French Machine. Never been built before. Involves a conveyor belt, a shape sorter and lots of tinfoil. Need to remember to take some pictures this week! No more clues, you’ll have to wait and see…

Francovision Winners

normalfornorthgate — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:51:07 +0000

Well done to 7A – you were voted the winners of Francovision 2011. We loved the singing and the acting and the err… costumes? A few statistics:
7A are the first A group to win. Previous winners were 2008 7T, 2009 7N, 2010 7T
This is a first win for Mrs King, with previous winners Mr Everett, Mrs Schwabe and Mrs Bennett.
Miss Shepheard holds the record for most groups in the final – maybe one of her groups will win next year!

Thanks to all the groups and to the International Leaders for a great competition.

Francovision

normalfornorthgate — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:52:11 +0000

7O, 7G and 7A are through to the final on Friday!! Well done to all the groups, your songs were very impressive. And thanks to the International Leaders for running the assembly. Well done. The final is on Friday, so 7O, G and A come along to see if you win the trophy!

Y9 After School Reboot Club

normalfornorthgate — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:28:38 +0000

Well done, I really enjoyed yesterday’s extra French. I loved the way your French kit turned out the same as your models:

Meccanno, you can build anything you like but it’s tricky and your digger scoop was too heavy for the body. Your French was similar. Lots of good stuff but kind of stuck together so that when you read it, the overall shape was unbalanced.

Lego. You could build anything you liked as long as it was a car. It was easy to build and then you made it look flash with lights etc. Your French was the same. Carefully built, but with lots of flashy bits like past and future and you even customised your kit with “if it is sunny”.

Paper plane. Could only make a plane. Easy but not much fun. But it did fly.

And remember what I did to that model glider. You have lost, broken or thrown away all the French you’ve been learning. Or you just didn’t understand what it was for in the first place.

Now you have your French kit, and you know how to use it… Next week “Pimp my French”!

Year 8 Fridge Sheet

normalfornorthgate — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:17:10 +0000

Looking for the Y8 Fridge Sheet? Y8_all_you_need Everything you need to be successful in Year 8 French on one piece of paper. Print it off and stick it on your fridge.