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Mrs Yates’s trip to Calais Hollesley Primary School Salut! The reason Mrs Yates went to Calais was because Suffolk want to improve modern foreign languages and intercultural understanding in schools. Mrs Yates went with 25 teachers from Suffolk schools for a 3 day visit which began on 25 th November 2009. While she was there she visited L’ecole La Fontaine (which has 176 pupils, more than 3 times bigger than Hollesley), and which is now linked with Hollesley Primary School. Mrs Yates said she had a fascinating insight into the way French Primary Schools work, which is very different from here. Mrs Yates took with her letters from all the children, photographs and a copy of the School Prospectus. French pupils start Primary School at the age of 6 (that’s the equivalent to year 2). They start at 08.45 and school ends at 17.00 and for the pupils who struggle there is an extra hour for them on Tuesdays and Fridays but there is no school on Wednesdays. Their lunch break is 2 hours long (that’s twice as long as ours!). They also have 2–3 weeks longer holidays. The school is taught in a more formal way than Hollesley. Each pupil has his/her own desk facing the front of the January 2010 page 1 class. On the desk the school provide a little basket which each pupil fills with his/her own stationery. They spend 10 hours a week learning how to read and write French but they do very little creative writing. However their handwriting is absolutely beautiful which isn’t surprising considering they practise it every day for hours! They have to raise their hand to speak and when teachers or others enter their room they must stand up until told to sit down. Another strict rule is they’re not allowed to get out of their seats even to go to the toilet, the toilets are outside across the playground and they’re not very pleasant. At lunch time pupils can’t have sandwiches but they either go home or have a school dinner (they are actually cooked elsewhere and reheated on the premises.) There is no: assembly, clubs, hall/gym, computers (except one for the secretary), water bottles or water machine, concerts, R.E (but if parents want pupils to learn it, it’s done outside school on Wednesdays), homework, staff room, School Prospectus, School Council, School Photographer or School Reporters, so you wouldn’t be reading this in France! There is only one interactive whiteboard and all the others boards are magnetic blackboards. www.villagevoices.org.uk
down). There are lots of interesting places to visit and she found out that Calais is famous for lace, now all machine made. In the future we hope to exchange lots of information, learn more about the cultural differences between our schools and hopefully arrange a daytrip. L’ecole La Fontaine—the French primary school visited by Mrs Yates At lunch time Mrs Yates had a guided tour in and around Calais, including the Sangatte refugee camp (now closed Mrs Yates showed us lots of photographs of La Fontaine and Calais. We think Hollesley School is much better! Au revoir! School reporters: Georgia Donaldson and Sam Parkinson www.villagevoices.org.uk January 2010 page 1
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