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Next year the MFL department will be offering a trip to Catalonia for Spanish students in Years 9 and 10 including Barcelona, Tossa del Mar, Figueras and Gerona. There will be a day at Port Aventura theme park and a visit to the Dalí museum.
For French students there will be a visit to Paris with a day at Disneyland, a visit to a local market and lots of sports activities.
Sign up as soon as possible and keep an eye on the notice board for lists of names and further details.
Congratulations to the Year 9 Spanish groups & Ecowarriors on being awarded first prize for their etwinning envionmental blog 'What can we do for our environment? ¿Qué podemos hacer por nuestro medio ambiente?' at the recent etwinning national conference at the National College for School Leadership. The blog was run jointly by ourselves and our partner school in Málaga, the Instituto Juan Ramón Jiménez. I went up to Nottingham to receive the award from a representative of the DCSF on behalf of the students.
40 Year 9 students have just returned today from their language trip to Paris. They stayed in the Château de Grande Romaine and enjoyed visiting Paris, a local market, abseiling and climbing and a visit to Parc Astérix.
Merci beaucoup à tous for being such a fine group and great ambassadors for our College.
Merci énormément to all the staff who accompanied the trip and/or helped organise it: Mrs McGarr, Miss Morbey, Mrs Barnes, Mr Cardiet, Mr Carr, and Mr Dalgleish. I am sure that like me they are off to sleep but look forward to seeing you all tomorrow in College!
Check out the blog of the trip at http://paris2009-jimmyp.blogspot.com
Velkommen - to the students and staff from Hemne videregaende skole, Norway, who visited us recently and entertained us greatly with some dancing! The students toured the College and later walked to Loe Bar and Porthleven. We are hoping to undertake a joint Comenius project together with the Lycé Jean Moulin in Brittany later next year.
Year 7 French and Spanish groups recently enjoyed a day at Newquay Zoo during which they practised their newly acquired language skills and learned a great deal about the environmental problems that animals face. Merci/Gracias to Mr Mark Norris from the Education Department at Newquay Zoo for giving two talks in both French and Spanish about lemurs and of course the legendary Monty the Python!
Barack Obama fever hits Helston!
Students from HCC's Year 7 French and Year 9 Spanish groups took part in the BBC Obamarama Survey this week. We look forward to seeing what our partner Italian and Spanish schools have to say.
They had 4 key questions to answer:
If Barack Obama visited your school and community, who would you want him to meet and what would you want him to see?
What would you give Barack Obama to remember you by?
What's the first thing that Barack Obama should do when he becomes president of the United States?
What do you think of Barack Obama?
Check out some of their responses by looking at the HCC Obamarama PowerPoint:
On Friday I was invited to give a talk at the 'Success in Language Teaching and Learning 14-19 Conference' at the National College for School Leadership. I talked about how the Department and students have used digital still pictures, and combined them with an audio track to create both stories and exam revision videos. This work has been the subject of a case study by CILT on their 14-19 website. Check out the link: http://www.cilt.org.uk/14to19/ict/helston_video.htm
The MFL Department was delighted to welcome Amanda Pléven from the Plymouth Business School who visited Helston Community College on Wednesday and kindly gave a presentation to Year 9 and Year 11 students on the theme of the importance and benefit of learning a foreign language. Many thanks Amanda.
