Bonjour!

We hope you have had a lovely half term and look forward to seeing some of you on 12th. There are still a couple of places if anyone else would like to join us.

As you may be looking to review your SoLs I’ve got some phonics resources you may want to build in this week.

A nice summary document of common French phonics with a YouTube link from native speaker Marie Odile Guillou:

With a nice poem and worksheet to practice Sound Spelling Correspondences (SSCs) as they are now referred to in GCSE (or phoneme grapheme links). You could also use it as a model for writing.

And another more advanced document with examples which may provide you with some ‘lightbulb’ moments:

13 French vowels sound cards by MOG (two A5 format).docx

Deuxième poème sur mes petites bêtes avec photos MOGv1 080420.pdf

A4 French phonics quizzes for first poem on mini-beasts (with photos)MOG v1.pdf

FRENCH COMPLEX SOUNDS table – Imprégnation graphémique (avec exemples)MOGv2.pdf

Spanish:

Some culture and tongue twisters from Latin America – Spanish but Mexican style!

¡Trabalenguas!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHuDd4PwCa4

Have a lovely week,

Morning everyone!

Thank you to all those who have booked onto our subject leader meeting on 12th June. We still have a couple of places left if anyone else would like to join us. Please email jlines@molescroftprimary.net. Remember there is no cost to attend and cover will be paid.

A no effort classroom activity this week – just some internet Tunes to brighten up the week as we almost arrive at half term!

https://bilingualkidspot.com/2021/05/15/disney-songs-in-spanish/

https://www.fluentu.com/blog/french/disney-songs-in-french-lyrics/

https://frenchly.us/best-french-versions-of-disney-songs/

Best Wishes,

Kay

Attachments available until 26 Jun 2025

Dear all

If you would like some cultural ideas for the end of term, Sam put together the attached PPT of some of the things she has done with her pupils.

If you want something different for speaking and writing and encouraging independence with full sentences, Sentence generator is a lovely activity for sentence building. The Ppt I found online is a bit of a gimmick for a relatively simple idea and you may want to change the magician to someone more well known to KS2 pupils in 2025 than Paul Daniels – the Ppt is editable so lots of scope!

Best Wishes,

Kay and Sam

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Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you all enjoyed the bank holiday weekend. This week’s practical idea is linked to literacy. I know many of you have seen various resources I have produced and used across the years using familiar texts and children’s books so when I came across these resources for Dear Zoo, I thought they were worth sharing as inspiration.

Thank you to those who have signed up for our subject leader afternoon on 12th June. We still have a few places left if you want to join us – please let Jenny know (jlines@molescroftprimary.net)

If you’ve not looked at our PERLE website (Perle.org.uk) in a while, we are in the process of updating it and it would be helpful to know if there is anything you would like us to include.

Cher Zoo Frenchx.pptx
dear zoo adjective word cards Spanish.pdf
Dear Zoo French text and ideas.docx
Dear Zoo Spanishx text.pdf
dear zoo writing frame Spanishx.pdf

Stories

Choose a children’s story book in the target language, with the words written on the screen

which the children can listen to and repeat. One of my favourites in French is Va t’en Grand

Monstre Vert (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHrZ1Zq14bc).

I would ask them to listen to the story a couple of times before joining in. They could start with

just repeating the colours. Some may feel confident copying the whole sentence. They could also

make a voice recording of themselves.

You could then ask them to make a list of the colours in the book and maybe draw and label

something of that colour they can find at home. Or you could send a gap fill of the storyfor

them to complete using the video.

Another story I like is ‘Une Histoire Sombre’

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSiliJKBBoo&t=25s). The phrase ‘sombre, très sombre’ is

repeated throughout the story and is good for practising the nasal vowel ‘o’ and the rolling ‘r’.

I have to admit I have struggled to find similar in Spanish – I have learnt that capital letters are

often used for simple repetitive books, or the background has music in Spanish stories much

more than French ones and this is very distracting.

This is a nice version of The Very Hungry Caterpillar in

Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xji5krOhTI

The Spanish is more complicated than the French in the stories above but as it is a familiar

story, children could be asked to identify and repeat the days of the week and/or the foods. They

could then draw the food and label in Spanish and even add the day of the week with the correct

food.

https://www.youtube.com/c/MarieOdileGuillou

L’Avent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLkzFT5qkIU

Le Ramadan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naQh8Ppg2Xc

La Diwali: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL41nod4SnE

Mardi Gras: https://youtube.com/watch?v=72aKZ7y5K8E

Christmas

French Christmas Resources (lightbulblanguages.co.uk)

Spanish Christmas Resources (lightbulblanguages.co.uk)

Epiphany: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOCfU_sdrM8

French https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtaephym8WY

Spanish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7SUxuxzT0w

https://bilingualkidspot.com/2021/05/15/disney-songs-in-spanish/

https://www.fluentu.com/blog/french/disney-songs-in-french-lyrics/

https://frenchly.us/best-french-versions-of-disney-songs/

Favourite websites – a selection shared over the past few years. All links tested as of May 2025

lightbulblanguages.co.uk

https://www.youtube.com/@LingoboxLearning

https://schoolsonline.britishcouncil.org/classroom-resources

https://www.britishcouncil.org/sites/default/files/primary-language-resources.pdf

https://www.rachelhawkes.com/

https://momes.parents.fr/

www.iletaitunehistoire.com

https://www.culturetheque.com/fr/la-salle-de-classe

https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/spr/unt/kum/dfk/dff.html

https://www.new-cilt.org.uk/Materials/CPDResources/

https://allconnectblog.wordpress.com/

www.busuu.com

http://www.kids-world-travel-guide.com

https://morganmfl.weebly.com/

https://www.mamalisa.com/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/modern-foreign-language-collection/zhbky9q

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Spanish

Weird Spanish Words That You Won’t Believe Exist! – YouTube

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Week 7

En vacances!

Links with PSHCE – we all laugh in the same language

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Week 5

An end of term or summer holiday challenge (editable)

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