For the second year running, a Presdales student has been celebrated at the British Council ‘Celebrate Speaking!’ event.
‘Celebrate speaking!’ is a festival of languages in education and community through speaking and performance. Students were encouraged to prepare and recite a poem in the language they are studying. The committee were impressed with the Russian submission by Nicol Coman in Year 9 entitled ‘Autumn in rowan beads’ and invited her to perform it at the live event on Thursday 4th May. Mrs Willett and Nicol enjoyed a variety of performances in over 15 languages and lots of the students talked about words they enjoy saying in their foreign languages. Nicol presented her work proudly and professionally.
Well done Nicol!
On the last day of the Spring term, 8SL learnt about ‘Poisson d’avril’ in their French lesson. This is the French equivalent of April Fool’s Day. In France the ‘trick’ is to stick a paper fish on someone’s back without them knowing. Over the years, the ‘fish’ theme has extended to being able to buy fish shaped breads or chocolates for example around this time. As the 1st of April was the start of the Easter holidays, the homework was to trick a member of the family and upload a photo. There seemed to be a larger number of tricked Dads on the whole who were walking around all day with a paper fish stuck to their back! Special mention must go to Lyra, for making fish shaped biscuits and Maisie, for making a chocolate cake with a fish motif. Bravo!
Well done to everyone and remember to keep the tradition going next year!
Mme Davies
On Friday 24th March, both Year 12 and Year 13 students took part in a morning of ‘Wellbeing and Moving On’ Workshops. We were incredibly lucky to host the following sessions;
-Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, delivering a session on ‘Beating Exam Stress’ (Years 12 & 13)
-University of East Anglia delivering a session on Student Finances (Year 13 only)
-Hertfordshire’s Road Safety Partnership showing a video ‘Young Drivers’
We hope that the sessions will enable the students to think about their own wellbeing as well as providing them with vital information about topics such as finances and driving safely.
Sixth Form Team
On Thursday 2nd March, KS3 Book Club participated in some World Book Day activities in the library. We had lots of fun discussing texts, sharing recommendations, designing book tokens, and debating the best book characters!
Come along to KS3 Book Club on Thursdays!
The English Department
On Friday 3rd March, in celebration of World Book Day, teachers and Year 7 students dressed up as some of their favourite book characters. Harry Potter, Katniss, Dorothy, Ms Trunchball were just some of the characters that graced the halls of Presdales. Mr Samways even came as William Shakespeare, while Mr Warren was the infamous Batman!
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