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
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!
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.
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!
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 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.
S2 French did a little project on French couturiers, and the best ones were picked out by the Higher French pupils. Here are the posters:
Mr O’Neill had some interesting additions to his classroom displays last week. Here are a couple of photos; fantastique, n’est-ce pas??
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
Linguist of the Month goes to Harry Connor of 2T2, for building a pyramid at the back of Mr O’Neill’s classroom! Well done – architect of the future!
Congratulations to the following Modern Languages pupils who have worked hard enough to be awarded Pupil of the Month in November! Well done to all.
| 1T1 | Isla | McKie |
| 1T2 | Cerys | McChesney |
| 1T3 | Arianna | Benison |
| 1T4 | Alexandru | Alexandru |
| 1T5 | Lillie Necole | Chapman |
| 1T6 | Eilidh | Smillie |
| 1T7 | Daniel | Kilpatrick |
| 2T1 | Alexander | Nairn |
| 2T2 | Logan | Simpson |
| 2T3 | Aaron | Kelly |
| 2T4 | Aaron | Bell |
| 2T5 | Logan | Walker |
| 2T6 | Adam | McTavish |
| 2T7 | Eoghan | Sharpe |
| 3T1 | Filip | Zientala |
| 3T2 | Niamh | Murray |
| 3T3 | Izabella | Hall |
| 3T4 | Logan | Buist |
| 3T5 | Mandeep | Singh |
| 3T6 | Holly | O’Byrne |
| 3T7 | Zach | Corr |
| 3G | Amit | Singh |
| 3S | Filip | Zientala |
| 4DF | Sofia Kaur | Singh |
| 4EF | Megan | Campbell |
| 4FF | Logan | Anderson |
| 4GF | Lucy | Gray |
| 4S | TJ | Benison |
| 4G | Casey-Jane | Scott |
