This term P6G are taking part in a 10 week project called SCLINGOSHOTS. The children will work on animation, film making, and recording with a French focus to bring everything together. They will work with Rory, a sound expert, Miriam, an animator and Ronan who is an actor and French speaker. Hopefully the end result will be a variety of animations, in French, which will be included in a website for children which teaches about the culture as well as the language of France.

Today’s session began with a couple of warm up games – Rubber Chicken and ‘Allez’.

The children then split into 4 groups to explore:

Sound – Rory taught the children how to use microphones
Animation – the children worked with Miriam who introduced the basics of animation using Crazy Talk
French – Ronan worked with the children on their pronunciation and language skills
Research – the children explored an existing website ‘passeport pour la francophonie’ to find out what they liked and what they felt could be improved upon.

We didn’t manage to get all the rotations fitted in this week but we will finish them off next Monday.

It was great fun! Hopefully we will be able to post weekly updates and photos to let you know how we are getting along!