Bonjour! Hola!
Congratulations on reaching the end of the term!
This week, just a reminder for you, colleagues and the children to collect photographs of signs, supermarkets, cafes and places of interest when on their holidays and share these! They can become amazing resources for MFL lessons! I have taken photos since the beginning of my teaching career and still use photos today from 2005 in some of my Spanish lessons! I have some wonderful pictures of foods and restaurant menus over the years from France and Spain!
Encourage children to do the same!
Have a wonderful holiday!
Gracias and 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!
Juillet! Julio! July already!

This week, why not have a game of charades! Ask children to act out words or phrases you have been learning this year. You might want to state there are different categories for example colours, animals, foods etc. Children act out the particular thing. You can play in teams and play against one another!
Enjoy!
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!
As the end of term approaches us, why not try one of these ideas to celebrate the end of the term with your class in French or Spanish?

Set up an ice-cream stall and order ice-creams in French or Spanish – an inexpensive way is to just do ice-pops or cheap tub of ice cream and cones.
Have plastic euros and ask the children to make some menus in the target language the week before to order from.

Have a French or Spanish cafe inside or outside with croissants or brioche. To keep costs down cut brioche or croissants into small pieces or pretend with pictures of food instead.

Create a Spanish or French bakery and ask children to come and buy items from the bakery.

Have a special Spanish or French breakfast, add table cloths, music in the TL and backdrop like a hotel breakfast room or cafe.

Create a shop in the classroom and buy things with plastic euros to enjoy!

Ask children to create menus and signs for any of the above!

Bonne chance! Good luck!
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!
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