“Ahoj!” I shouted at some startled Year 6s as they arrived at the school gates. “It’s Czech!” I explained. “It means Hi!” Mrs Cody proudly showed off her “Hello” jumper as she welcomed the children at the gate, we were greeted with a “Privet” from Mr Jeens and as I headed across the courtyard, several…
Mr Chesworth’s love of school trips is no secret, and with over 50 residential trips during his teaching career, he believes that international trips create event greater learning opportunities. So it was for Year 5 and 6 when they embraced every activity and opportunity to experience the different culture, food and adventure in France. On…
Our Year 5 & 6 children travelled to France at the beginning of May and here Mrs Abbott, our Languages Leader, shares her experience: “Yesterday, I got an invitation to book some dates for our next trip to France. We only returned from this year’s trip on Friday. I am still recovering from the sleepless…
Last Friday, Banstead Prep celebrated the European Day of Languages (Saturday 26 September). What better way to celebrate on a school day than by incorporating language learning across the curriculum! Year 2 actively participated in many online sessions that Lingotot offered online. They learnt some magical vocabulary in French using the well-known Harry Potter stories….
They always say that the only way to truly learn a language is by full immersion and that’s exactly what happened to Years 1 -4 on Wednesday afternoon, at least for an hour, when the Freshwater Theatre Company arrived to perform Goldilocks and The Three Little Pigs (that’s two fairy tales, not one mutated version)…
Our intrepid hunters from Reception and Nursery took part in a French Story Hunt workshop for the first time this week as we welcomed the Freshwater Theatre Company into school. Led by Imogen and “un grand oiseau”, the children had fun singing familiar nursery rhymes, which cleverly combined French and English, while making their way…
Our Pupil Parliament met with Mrs Brown, Assistant Head (Operational and Safeguarding) yesterday and had a great discussion about the current co-curricular clubs on offer at Banstead Prep School. The children said they would like to see: Sports clubs such as rugby, golf (skills based), cricket, baseball, martial arts such as karate, basketball and badminton….
If Einstein couldn’t talk until he was 4 or read until he was 7 (which is apparently the case) and Didier Drogba studied accountancy before finding himself playing for Chelsea at the mature age of 26, how can we hope to spot the gifted and talented amongst the cherished progeny that walk through our gates? …
On Monday afternoon, we took off, together with the actors from the Onatti French theatre company, into the far distant reaches of space, on a spaceship where everyone spoke only French and where all the instructions were exclusively in French… obviously. How were our children, some as young as 5, to interpret a play, the…
