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Miss Muir’s S2 French class

S2 have been learning a lot about Paris, and have produced some amazing posters, each on a different aspect of Paris.  Mr Cairns came to class yesterday to chat with everyone about what they’d learned, and to give out some cream eggs to the people he thought had worked the hardest on their posters.  Well done everyone!

Napoleon

 

 

Marie Antoinette
the City of Paris
Les Champs-Elysées
le Musée d’Orsay
the French Revolution
Les Galéries Lafayette
le Palais de Versailles
the River Seine
Louis XIV, the Sun King
the Stade de France
Robespierre
the Sacré-Coeur
the Louvre
King Louis XVI
the Catacombes
Nôtre-Dame
the Mona Lisa – la Joconde, in French
the Louvre Pyramids
Joan of Arc
Montmartre
Charles de Gaulle
Gustave Eiffel
the Place de la Concorde
the Centre Pompidou
the Eiffel Tower

S5/6 German class visit to the Bavarian Brauhaus 2024

AS a reward for the year’s hard work, the S5/6 German class had a little trip for lunch in Glasgow’s German restaurant, the Baravian Brauhaus. In spite of the weather, everyone enjoyed their lunch, as you can see from the photos.

Bratwurst and Sauerkraut.
Waiting for the bus. It was a bit wet.
Enjoying the food
Waiting in the rain
All of us, including Mr Brady, the student teacher from last year.
Schweinehaxe mit Rotkohl, shared among everyone who wanted to try it. Lecker!

Mathématiques sans Frontières

Yesterday the Higher and N5 maths classes took part in the international maths/languages competition, Mathématiques sans Frontières. The competition involves working in groups to solve maths problems, one of which has to be answered in either French, German, Spanish or Italian. Here they are, having fun and working on some (very!) complicated maths at the same time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click here to see a copy of the questions they worked on.  Well done to all!

Final Test 2024 Scotland and r UK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eiffel Tower

What a lovely, unexpected surprise today – a replica Eiffel Tower made by Cameron Sweeney, of S2.  Thank you very much!  We’re all very impressed!

 

S2 star ✨

One of our fabulous S2s (and there are a lot!) has made this lovely and informative booklet on France in her free time.  We’re all so impressed!  Well done Lily.

Page 1; contents page

French flag and information about it

 

What money do they use in France? Real examples of coins here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paris and the Eiffel Tower

 

Map of France with some towns and cities marked

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

French road signs – very useful if you’re driving in France!

 

What can you eat once you’re in France? Look here for an example!

 

S3 posters on ‘Soulman’ song

A few weeks ago Miss Muir’s S3 learned how to use a bilingual dictionary by looking up words for a song ‘Soulman’, by Ben l’Oncle Soul.  Here’s a link to the YouTube video – it’s very good, and full of negatives (the grammar point we were covering at the time).  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69ptYXvUo7M

And here are some of the posters.  We have so many great artists!

European Day of Languages 2023

Gazpacho! Spanish cold tomato soup.

This year – for once – EDL was on a school day; Tuesday 26/9/23.  So we were in step with the whole of Europe.  Our BGE pupils were all busy doing EDL activities – S1 had a treasure hunt, S2 had a quiz and S3 were making posters of unusual idioms in foreign languages.  We also had a food tasting of various items from  European countries at lunchtime, and many pupils came and tried, among other things, camembert cheese , German sunflower bread, tortilla, pesto pasta and much else.

 

Mrs O’Neill’s Bush Tucker Trial lair. Be afraid!

 

The warning signs are up..

Happy chompers

 

Mrs O’Neill held her, now famous, Bush Tucker Challenge, where brave volunteers were blindfolded and tried tastes of 5, rather more unusual, foods, like sauerkraut and olives, with a prize for not spitting any out.  Lots of adventurous palates out there!  Well done to everyone who took part; more photos to follow.

 

 

 

 

 

A good selection on that plate.                                                                    

 

 

 

 

 

 

A wide variety of food to try.

Queuing for seconds

Sausages, cheese and ham on offer here.

Mathématiques sans Frontières

Our Higher pupils took part again in this year’s MsF – a combination of hard sums and a question in French/German/Spanish.  The pupils enjoyed the competition and the snacks that went with it (for added brain power, of course!) and we sent off our answers.  We’ll see how we got on once they’re marked, but the pupils were able to answer nearly all the questions, so fingers crossed!

Here are some photos and the question paper.

 

Link to question paper:  MSF 2023 UK