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LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT<br />
Literacy Spelling Bee<br />
We are thrilled to be able to introduce Stage 1 of The National Spelling Bee to all our Year 7<br />
pupils this term. This competition involves schools from all over Wales and this<br />
is the second year in which we will be competing. At present, each class has 10 high<br />
frequency / key Welsh words to learn, each fortnight, with the aim of raising literacy<br />
standards across the subject.<br />
Société Franco-Britannique 2011<br />
Once again this year, a<br />
pupil taught by the French<br />
Department at Bassaleg<br />
was successful in winning<br />
a prize presented by the<br />
Société Franco-Britannique<br />
de Newport.<br />
Emily Decker was chosen<br />
to receive the prize<br />
awarded annually to the<br />
pupil in Newport who<br />
achieves the highest<br />
overall result at A level<br />
French. Emily gained<br />
a well deserved A* in<br />
French. Both Mrs Lewis<br />
and Emily, accompanied<br />
by many members of her<br />
proud family, attended the<br />
evening presentation on<br />
15th September, at the<br />
Newport Civic Centre.<br />
If successful we hope to run a Welsh Spelling Bee club during lunchtimes with prizes<br />
awarded each half term for students demonstrating high levels of enthusiasm and<br />
effort and, to progress this even further by the spring term in entering selected pupils<br />
to represent the subject and the school in external competitions.<br />
Much of the evening was<br />
conducted in French and<br />
Emily and Mrs Lewis both had the opportunity to make speeches in French to thank the organisers for their<br />
generosity. Members of the society praised Emily’s superb command of the French language and also the<br />
French Department in recognition of the excellent work done to promote French language learning at<br />
Bassaleg. Emily has just embarked on a 4 year Modern Languages degree course at Exeter University and<br />
we wish her well!<br />
Bassaleg International!<br />
Bethan Reeks, Year 12, turned the tables on our language<br />
assistants by asking them some questions! Ana and<br />
Sophie work mostly with small groups of students who are<br />
studying GCSE, AS and A Level French or Spanish.<br />
Sophie joined us in September and Ana enjoyed it so much<br />
last year that she stayed on for another year! Their<br />
enthusiasm and willingness to help are much appreciated<br />
by our students who realise that they have a fantastic<br />
opportunity to converse with an authentic speaker.
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