KS2 Culture Club met to discuss the international school that they will be collaborating with for the next 2 years. Szego Gabor Altalanos Iskola is a school in Hungary, who we have collaboarted with before. The children viewed the school and the local area on Google maps before sending questions to the school about certain things such as; What their general school day is like and what they do in their free time. We await their replies!
In Culture Club, the children have been learning about sign language due to it being International Day of Signs in September. The children have learnt the alphabet and basic greetings. Here, are two of our Year 5s showing you the sign alphabet.
We have been awarded Intermediate level of the British Council’s prestigious International School Award in recognition of its work to bring the world into the classroom.
The International School Award celebrates the achievements of schools that do exceptional work in international education. Fostering an international dimension in the curriculum is at the heart of the British Council’s work with schools so that young people gain the cultural understanding and skills they need for life and work in today’s world.
Penguins class have really enjoyed a little bit of Italian for European day of Languages! We learnt how to say Hello! Ciaol! And tried a famous Italian dessert!
As part of European Languages Day, Year 6 took a closer look at Greece and where languages can take you. The classes looked at short phrases in Greek and tried to name all the 24 recognized European languages. The children were then given the opportunity to try some Greek food including olives, feta cheese and Greek yoghurt with the children then rating their favorites. After this, the classes then prepared a PowerPoint presentation about how languages can help you and where they can take you.
On our third day, we headed to the secondary to school to see the difference between it and the primary school before heading back to the primary school to start our activities. Alessandra then showed us how her class had been recycling in the local area. The children had been placing a recycling box around town to collect cups and sorted them into their separate colours. After this, the children used a machine to shred the cups. Then, they used a melting machine to help them turn the plastic into recycled goods such as clocks and pieces of artwork. The class had also set up their own earthworm compost heap the see how certain materials decompose, which Year 6 have also been looking at in their science unit.
We then split into groups and sorted recycled bottle caps into colours to create a piece of art. Then, we ventured outside to plant seeds and plants in the school gardens.
In the afternoon, we headed Villisimius beach, which was beautiful and home to flamingoes. We were able to play on the beach and catch a look at the flamingoes from a distance.
On our second day, we returned to the school I.C. Villaputzu. Our 12 Year 6 children delivered a presentation they had created about our school, their lessons (as Sardinian schools are run very differently), the local area and traditional dishes. After this, both schools had to use teamwork and communication in order to balance a bridge so that it could support itself. A few attempts later and they were successful!
The children then had a break in the sunshine: watering the schools strawberry plants, Italy vs England football game and communicating and discovering more about each other. We then shared our new school video to the Sardinian children and they then gave their presentation about the local area and Sardinia as well as their school. This was delivered in English by two of their students: Thomas and Angelo.
After this, we split into two groups with one doing a language exchange with one of the Italian classes learning words such as; cappello (hat), libri (books), porta (door), panca (bench) and finestra (window). The other group worked as a team with another class to create a mosaic image using 10x10 grids.
School lunch today was tomato pasta and meatballs but then the heavens opened. According to the locals, it hadn't rained like that in 2 years and there was even hailstones! We returned to the villa and headed into Muravera to buy souvenirs.
Framwellgate Moor Primary School have been successful in achieving grant funding through the Turing Project. 8 pupils from Y6 and 4 Teachers will be travelling to Sardinia on the 19th May 2024 for 1 week. They will have opportunities to attend our partner school and take part in many educational activities as well as seeing the local site of interest. Pupils are working on a project to present to the school in Italy on the first day.
Our first full day in Sardinia and we were welcomed by our host school in Villaputzu. They greeted us with signs and a song. Then, one of the teachers played a set of traditional pipes - invented in Sardinia - as the children danced and our children and teachers joined in. After this, we were taught about the culture of hip hop and how it originated before being taught some breakdancing moves. Next, the children played volleyball amd had a break with the Italian children playing football and hide and seek.
In the afternoon, we were showm around the school and welcomed by each individual class. Here, they asked our children questions and we asked them ours. We sat down for lovely lunch of risotto before heading to the park for an ice cream. After our delicious ice cream, we walked to a local honey farm where we saw the whole honey making process. We even tasted a range of different honey!
Children from Year 6 entered this poster competition with a theme of ‘Where can languages take you?’
There were over 800 entries of a very high standard. All children who participated received a highly commended certificate.
Here are their posters.
The judges were very impressed with Mia and TJ, who received runners up prizes.
Well done everyone who entered!
Framwellgate Moor Primary School has been involved in an Erasmus project since 2018 with schools from Estonia, Italy, France, Hungary and Greece. The children have worked on various shared tasks and resources over the past 3 years. One of these tasks was a shared Calendar consisting of ideas for every school to use in their outdoor learning/sustainability education. Here is the calendar!
