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La Fête des Mères – Mother’s Day
Below are some ideas to celebrate Mother's Day in French, either in March (UK date) or at the end of May/beginning of June (date in France). Please note that if the children do not have a mother to celebrate, they can dedicate the day to anyone they love - the...
4-minute French adventures
Lockdown French adventure challenge On Monday 11th January 2021, for our 3rd lockdown, I started challenging myself to teach French daily in under 4 minutes: thank you if you joined me weekdays at 11.45am live on my YouTube channel for my French Adventures! I recorded...
East Midlands Primary Languages Conference
UPDATE 23rd JUNE 2021: click here for my takeaways from this wonderful conference, and for my presentation, including links to books! I am delighted to be taking part in this event on Monday 21st June 2021. You can now check the programme and book your place by...
Je m’habille et… je t’apporte un cadeau !
I bought this lovely story from Little Linguist at York St John's for our ALL Primary Languages Show in 2019... I have finally got round to writing about it and am using it with all my classes in December 2020! Extra resources on French websites: click here or click...
Essential picture books for the French classroom
Click here for essential picture books for the French classroom. Click here for the stories I recommend to go with the Primary French project. If you are looking for a random story I have recommended before, click here! Click here for ideas on how you can use picture...
Lapin is hungry
I came across this fun and beautiful book whilst doing research on puppet shows in French in the UK: it is how I discovered the whole world of "Le petit monde" in Edinburgh! (click here to check out their website). Its creator, Tania, got in touch with me, we had a...
Songs, stories and rhymes at the ALL Primary Languages Conference Online
Click here to check out the conference programme. What a great day we had on 17th October! It was a lovely way to spend most of my birthday haha! You will find below a summary of my main takeaways. I hope they help you too! My takeaways from Michael Wardle, Ofsted...
The Speaking Business Summit 2020
I have been a member of the PSA (Professional Speaking Association - click here for more information about it) for 3 years now but in October 2020 it was my 1st time at their annual conference. It is safe to say it won't be the last! Below are my main takeaways from...
Cours Petite École
Voici les activités pour le samedi 17 octobre 2020 ! Il y a six challenges pour cette semaine sans moi, à faire dans l’ordre que tu veux ! Clique ici pour ma vidéo « Peureux, peureuse, peureuses… » ; clique ici pour le lien après l’avoir regardée. Réponds aux...
