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Les amis d’Elmer

If you read my blogs regularly you will know that most of the books I write about are in their original language; however there are some books that are worth having and using in French even though they were 1st written in English, and this is one of them! What is not...

EDoL 2017

I wanted to share with you the ALL NE’s annual competition in which my pupils and I took part. You can open the details here: it was all about Martin Luther King Jr and our pupils’ dreams, very inspiring! You obviously can’t take part in the...

Comptines en chocolat

I only noticed this book because it fell off one of the carousels on Le Bibliobook last week… but if I could only keep one poetry book from my bus, this is it! And not just because it talks about chocolate ha ha! The author of those amazing poems has her own...

Le 14 juillet

Once again I have collated some great ideas from the Facebook group “Languages in Primary schools” ! Suggestions added in 2022:  For some cultural context in English, click here to watch a Horrible Histories video! For a short and sweet historical...

Le Tour de France

(I took the above photos in 2013 when I was lucky enough to see the end of the Tour de France on the Champs Élysées followed by a light and sound display on the Arc de Triomphe.) The Tour de France takes place very year in July and what a great excuse it is to do all...