Bonjour! Hola! ¡Buenos días!
Amazingly, we are in our last week of June! Thank you to those of you who attended the Translatathon yesterday! Well done to all of the schools who participated!

This week, we would like to share some song links. These link to many different areas of learning for Spanish and French and can provide an uplifting start or end to many a lesson!

French
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ03KjwiIVM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4kNeFGBAcw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsEz58BblMY

Spanish
https://rockalingua.com/songs/transportation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsRKoZGaoEM
https://rockalingua.com

Gracias! Merci Sam and Kay
Sam Henderson-Tucker
Subject Leader and SLE for Primary Languages
Molescroft Primary School
St Leonard’s Road
Beverley
HU17 7HF
01482 861762

Bonjour! Hola! ¡Buenos días!
We hope you have all had a good week!
This week, here is a good idea for getting children to use their phonics and thinking skills.

One student says a vocabulary item; the next must say a new one beginning with the last letter/sound of the previous word.

It is always a good idea to refer to the phonics as part of your weekly teaching and remind children of the sounds and actions. There are lots of free resources on the following sites to support the teaching of phonics in French/Spanish. Many of you will be aware of other games and activities that Kay and I have both shared through previous training.

https://www.rachelhawkes.com/Resources/Phonics/Phonics.php

Gracias! Merci!
Sam and Kay

Sam Henderson-Tucker
Subject Leader and SLE for Primary Languages
Molescroft Primary School
St Leonard’s Road
Beverley
HU17 7HF
01482 861762

Bonjour! Hola! ¡Buenos días!
We hope that you have all had a good week and that this email finds you well!
This week why not have a go at ‘Supermarket Sweep!’

Children play in groups of 6.

Each group needs x 5 players (shoppers) x 1 sales assistant
x 1 sheet of 30 different foods labelled in French/Spanish

Each shopper has an A4 sheet with a shopping trolley outline.

Each shopper takes it in turns to ask the sales assistant for an item for their trolley: Je voudrais un orange. Quiero una pera.
The shopping assistant gives the item and says: Voilà un orange or in Spanish Hay una pera for example.

When it it their second turn each player says what they have and now what they want: Example: J’ai un orange et je voudrais une pomme and then the next time they would say ‘J’ai un orange et une pomme et Je voudrais une banane.

By the end of the game, children should have 6 items in their trolley and be able to say the six items using ‘J’ai’ or ‘Tengo’.
Gracias! Merci!
Sam and Kay

Sam Henderson-Tucker
Subject Leader and SLE for Primary Languages
Molescroft Primary School
St Leonard’s Road
Beverley
HU17 7HF
01482 861762

Bonjour! Hola! ¡Buenos días!
We hope that you had a lovely half term and that the first week back has been a success for you! This week we have a new idea!
Let’s be a spy like James Bond!

Ask one student to leave the room – they are James Bond. The class chooses a spy and an action. When James Bond returns, the class chants the vocabulary and only changes to the next word when the spy performs the action. James Bond must work out who the spy is – with three guesses!

Why not try it out!
Have a lovely weekend!
Gracias! Merci!
Sam and Kay

Sam Henderson-Tucker
Subject Leader and SLE for Primary Languages
Molescroft Primary School
St Leonard’s Road
Beverley
HU17 7HF
01482 861762

Bonjour! Hola! ¡Buenos días!
Well done, we have all made it to half term! One more term to go, how the time has flown this summer!

The following idea is a good plan for Y5 and Y6 learners and provides a fun and active activity which can be done in the classroom or outside using large sheets of paper.

Children stand in pairs back to back, one partner facing the teacher/board or if outside the large sheet of paper with the phrase in Spanish/French and its English translation. The child facing says the sentence out aloud and the other partner has to say it in English. Alternatively this game can be played outside more independently in groups of 3 whereby one child reveals the sentence, one child says it in the TL and the child turned away translates then they all swap places.

Gracias! Merci!
Sam and Kay

Sam Henderson-Tucker
Subject Leader and SLE for Primary Languages
Molescroft Primary School
St Leonard’s Road
Beverley
HU17 7HF
01482 861762

Bonjour! Hola! ¡Buenos días!
We hope that this email finds you well.

Here is a brief idea to try at the start of each lesson. If you want to recap on previous learning, using a soft ball, soft toy or bean bag, throw the object to the first person and recap on a question/phrase or vocabulary you have been learning. Sometimes this works well with cohorts whereby the person that has the object then chooses the next person to throw it to. Alternatively you can take the learning outside, split the children into 5 groups of 6 and ask them to pass an object in their circle saying the words/phrases from the last lesson.
Gracias! Merci!
Sam and Kay

Sam Henderson-Tucker
Subject Leader and SLE for Primary Languages
Molescroft Primary School
St Leonard’s Road
Beverley
HU17 7HF
01482 861762

Bonjour! Hola! ¡Buenos días!
We hope that you are well and that you have had a good week.

This week, what a good idea to share the weather daily in the target language! Create a chart/poster or have individual weather cards you can stick or velcro to a board.

See attached for some ideas!

If you would like to share a weather song first with your class these are good options:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co6vfUxeRLg French
https://rockalingua.com/songs/weather-easy-version Spanish

Gracias! Merci!
Sam and Kay

Sam Henderson-Tucker
Subject Leader and SLE for Primary Languages
Molescroft Primary School
St Leonard’s Road
Beverley
HU17 7HF
01482 861762

Weather share.pptx

Bonjour! Hola! ¡Buenos días!
We hope that you are all well. This week, this food matching activity might be a good thing to plan for the end of summer term as part of a celebration lesson. There is a cost element however the idea is that the children do not eat all of the food! They perhaps have one thing to taste or try at the end! Alternatively, you can have pictures of foods or a mixture of pictures and actual foods.

Have a variety of foods placed on tables around the classroom, this might include foods traditional to the country that are easier to guess such as croissants (France) and churros (Spain).

All of the foods are numbered and the children are given a list of the food words in the target language.

Children work in pairs and have to record the correct number next to each food. There need to be about 25-30 different foods/pictures to make it enough of a challenge. You can include foods they do not know by using cognates/near cognates and also encouraging them to use their language detective skills.

Children then have to use the information to create some of their own phrases and sentences using and revising opinions such as ‘J’aime and Je n’aime pas’ for example or ‘Me gusta and No me gusta!’

At the end of the lesson, children have the opportunity to try some of the foods! Then express their preference for this in the TL!

Gracias! Merci!
Sam and Kay

Sam Henderson-Tucker
Subject Leader and SLE for Primary Languages
Molescroft Primary School
St Leonard’s Road
Beverley
HU17 7HF
01482 861762

Good afternoon,
Now we are into the swing of the summer term, those of you who have entered for the Translatathon may well now be meeting regularly with your final team to rehearse ready for the competition. Please find attached the information regarding the event. Final timings will be communicated in the coming weeks.

The competition will use words/phrases from both the Stage 1 and Stage 2 lists. Please find attached.

If you have any questions, please contact me.
Best wishes
Sam

Sam Henderson-Tucker
Subject Leader and SLE for Primary Languages
Molescroft Primary School
St Leonard’s Road
Beverley
HU17 7HF
01482 861762

The East Riding and Hull Translatathon.docx

Stage 1 and 2 Spanish.docx

Stage 1 and 2 French.docx

Bonjour! Hola! ¡Buenos días!
We hope that you are well. Thank you to those of you who attended the CPD event this week at Molescroft.

This week, why not try this lovely idea to celebrate key phrases you have learned with the children this year? Find some pebbles at the beach or ask children to bring in their own to decorate. Paint the pebbles in the colours of the flag for France or Spain. Once the pebbles are dry using a sharpie, add a phrase in the target language to the pebble such as: Je m’appelle… or Me llamo…. J’adore le chocolat or J’aime les chats! ¡Me gustan los gatos!

The pebbles can form a display for sharing with parents or could form part of a game asking children to translate the pebbles or go on a treasure hunt and place them around the grounds. When they find them, the children record and write down the phrases in the TL and translate to English.

Gracias! Merci!
Sam and Kay

Sam Henderson-Tucker
Subject Leader and SLE for Primary Languages
Molescroft Primary School
St Leonard’s Road
Beverley
HU17 7HF
01482 861762