Newsletter - Brighton Secondary School
Newsletter - Brighton Secondary School
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Year 8 French Fun<br />
This year the oral<br />
assignment I have done<br />
before using petits<br />
personnages mystérieux<br />
took on a new twist with<br />
the advent of my student<br />
teacher, Cyrus Weir.<br />
Students are first given 20<br />
minutes in class to create a little<br />
character from bits and bobs<br />
from home. Mr Weir came into<br />
class with a bag full of styrofoam<br />
cups, straws, plastic plates and a<br />
jar of eyes. The students’ eyes lit<br />
up. Some abandoned what they<br />
brought from home in favour<br />
of the new goodies. Some still<br />
used their things from home,<br />
others used a mix .<br />
The atmosphere was great. They<br />
have to create their creations<br />
and then have 10 sentences<br />
to introduce their petits<br />
personnages mystérieux to the<br />
rest of the class. This is revision<br />
practice for things we have been<br />
learning all year.<br />
With the petits personnages<br />
students never have trouble<br />
finding the sentences. They are<br />
never off task and the beauty<br />
of it is they just love it and are<br />
proud to introduce their petits<br />
personnages to everyone else.<br />
It takes all the pain out of oral<br />
work. We have the creations<br />
locked up in the drawer for a<br />
later assignment. I have to say<br />
the jar of eyes Mr Weir brought<br />
along was an instant hit and they<br />
vanished in no time!<br />
Cathy Woods<br />
French teacher<br />
BRIGHTON SECONDARY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER I ISSUE 5 I August 2012 9<br />
Responsibility | Integrity | Fairness | Co-operation | Respect | Excellence
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