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Bonjour! Today P6 learnt how to give and follow simple directions in French. We learnt how to say ‘go straight on’, ‘turn left’ and ‘turn right’. We then played a game of Hot and Cold in French; one pupil had to follow directions from the class in French to find a hidden object. We called out ‘chaud’ (hot) when they got close and ‘froid’ (cold) when they were far away. Unfortunately, technology let us down today so we don’t have a video but we will try to one for the blog another day!
On behalf of the school I contacted our friends at école St Jacques in Roussillon to let them know we held a minute of silence for the people of France.
The teacher replied to thank us. Â She says they too are thinking about the terrible events and the children are asking lots of questions.
They will be in touch again soon.
Mrs Hull
Primary 2/3 have been trying out their writing in French to send some smiles and greetings to our friends at École St. Jacques in Roussillon, France.
Merci! Thank you to all our customers at the French café on Friday. We were so busy when we opened it was hard to find a seat! Thanks to your generosity we raised over £53 for our partner school in  Magale. Merci beaucoup!
Well done also to all my French-speaking staff, the waiters, waitresses, chefs, helpers and especially Mrs Adams, Ms Young and Mrs Dugan (all volunteers) for all their help.
Bienvenue au café! À la cantine, vendredi 29 mai, à 1115h.
Vous pouvez manger des croissants, boire du café, et parler français!Â
In the dining hall, Friday 29 May from 11.15am. You can taste some croissants, drink coffee and talk a little French! Open to parents and friends of the school- pop in and take part in our week exploring cultural diversity. All proceeds will go towards our partner school in Magale.
Lyon, 0830
This morning we will pack our case and get ready to come home to Scotland. It has been an amazing week and we had lots of fun. We are sad to be leaving Lyon and all our new friends (many are saying goodbye to Jacques as well as Mrs Hull) but we are happy that we have had such good time, and excited to share our new games and ideas with everyone back at Pumpherston and Uphall Station Community Primary.
Scotland, here we come!
Today is our last day of classes <<sniff!>> so we concentrated very hard. We were doing the weather in French. Aujourd’hui il fait beau, il y a du soleil, il y a beaucoup de vent! I hope P3 and P4 can will like the weather activities we’re bringing back with us. We learned about the map of France, and looked at some great apps we can use for French lessons when we start school again. Then there was a little French acting class, with the class using lots of different feelings.
This afternoon we went shopping and had a quick crêpe for afternoon snack. Miam miam!
This evening the meal will be in Old Lyon, then we need to pack for our flights back to Scotland tomorrow.
Today was very busy but also very exciting. We had lessons in the University again, learning some new songs, poems and tongue twisters in French. Jacques was asked if he would teach the class his favourite song, Frère Jacques which he was brave enough to do.
After class we met Mrs Hull’s friend, Mme Decourt. She and Mrs Hull have written to each other as pen friends since they were at school! We went for lunch, then we were invited to visit Roussillon, meet Mme Decourt’s family, and even to go to visit the primary school – L’école St Jacques! The children sang a super welcome song in English for us and we listened to them reading a lovely story about a magic cat in Egypt. The castle in Roussillon is special because it was there that the French king signed a law in 1564 to make  1 janvier the start of the year in France. We have a copy of the law (merci Mme Decourt!) to show you when we get back to school.
We made lots of new friends today. We are hoping our schools will be able to write to each other so we can learn about France and we can tell the children about Scotland.
Good news! We got all the answers correct in our homework yesterday!!
Today we were in class all day, like at school. Our class were doing running dictation, just like Mrs Campbell’s class, but in French. The marking was very strict, and counted mistakes, not points! French children do a lot of dictation every week in class, but they don’t usually get to hop out their seats to read the sentences, the teacher reads them out. Â There was a lot of work with verbs today too.
We also did maths, counting, adding and subtracting in French, and a few games which were really good fun.
Il fait beau, il y a beaucoup de soleil, et il fait chaud!
This evening Mrs Hull went to le cinema! It was a film directed by a famous French comedian. The animation was fantastic. Here is the poster for the film. Can you predict the story?
Today we began with classes at the University, with our tutor Julien. Then we were set on a mission; we had 20 questions to find the answers to in Lyon. We started in the best place, the café for lunch! Then we found the Tourist Information Office, took our map and explored the city. We climbed up to the Basilica (remember the big church?) using the funicular railway. What amazing views from inside and out! Then we wandered through the old narrow streets and asked a few shopkeepers for help.
One subject we had to find out about is the famous puppet from Lyon, Guignol, and Jacques took the chance to see how puppets are made here in France. Guignol is the puppet painted on the building we saw on Sunday.
We also had to find out how many times Olympique Lyonnaise have been champions of French football. Primary 7 were not here to ask so we headed for the Olympique Lyonnaise shop and asked a friendly assistant. The answer was 7!! I wonder if we could borrow their goalie for our next match at Pumpherston?
We hope you like our photos of today, now we’ll put our feet up before dinner…
