Regardless of your faith or beliefs, this period of time is for families and friends to think about each other and to spend a little extra time caring.
My Christmas wish for you, is that you are able to have the space and time to be together, to value what we have and share it with others.
Zoe Johnson-Walker
Communication and Collaboration are key. The girls works together across all aspects of OAA in their unit and the activities have helped them bond as a class. Well done girls on all the risk taking & resilience you have shown.
Pop-up MFL Christmas Market
A huge thank you to the MFL Prefect team and Language
Leaders in years 7-11 who have been running stalls at the MFL Christmas Market
this week.
They demonstrated fantastic entrepreneurial and
collaborative skills as students from across the age range worked together to
sell their produce.
Market-goers were able to buy a range of continental
delicacies such as German Lebkuchen, Belgian chocolate waffles, Dutch
Stroopwaffels, as well as French cakes and crêpes.
Students were also able to buy traditional wooden tree
decorations, Christmas pencils and take part in a raffle to win an extra-large
chocolate bar!
Miss Finney
Year 7 students were given the chance to bake some
traditional German Christmas biscuits with Milena, our German Tutor.
First of all, students learnt about the typical flavours of
Christmas time in Germany. They then had to work out the German words for each
ingredient before having a go at translating the baking equipment and task
instructions.
Students worked very well together in creating their festive
biscuits and Milena was impressed by their creativity, baking skills and team work.
Congratulations to the winners: Andrew, Poppy and Georgia.
Well done to everyone who took part!
Thank you to Mrs Vadi for letting us use her Food Room.
Thank you to
our German and French tutors, Milena and Marion, who helped to run the Year 7
Christmas Market roleplay sessions over the last couple of weeks, enabling
students to experience this aspect of culture and tradition, while practising
key language skills.
Students got
the chance to experience the taste and smell of traditional Christmas food, such
as waffels, crêpes, double chocolate biscuits and Lebkuchen (gingerbread
biscuits) which are all typically sold at the Christmas Markets in France and
Germany.
Students
ordered their preferred food in German or French, before paying the correct
amount from their plastic euros. They did an excellent job of interacting with
the market sellers and ordering and paying for their snacks in target language!
Miss Finney
Congratulations
to 7WN (French) and 7CM (German) who are the winners of the MFL
Christmas competitions.
Well done to
all students who submitted their recordings to take part in the German
Christmas Elf tongue twister competition!
Miss Finney
