Modern Foreign Languages
Through the study of languages, our children will develop an interest in learning other languages in a way that is enjoyable and stimulating and a tolerance and respect of other people and cultures and be able to communicate in another language. They will make links with their own mother tongue and additional languages. They will have opportunities to embed the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing in Italian, laying the foundations for future language learning and gain an understanding of how languages can help us interact with others on a meaningful.
Children will learn subject specific vocabulary relating to their year group, this can be accessed by clicking on this document:
International Mother Language Day
On Wednesday 21st February 2024, it was International Mother Language Day. This special celebration aims to raise awareness of language, cultural diversity and multilingualism around the world. St Aidan’s has celebrated this day by taking part in various activities...
Italian
Today we have been learning a song in Italian about an elephant ,we could hear a similarity of the word elephant, in Italian. We then listened to the story of ‘Little Red Riding Hood.’ Finishing our lesson with some counting.
Chinese Cultural Club
This half term, Year 3 and 4 have enjoyed taking part in Chinese arts, crafts and cooking. We have made lanterns (which lights up!), dancing dragon puppets and a piece of dragon silhouette printing artwork. We have also cooked noodles, fried rice and vegetables in...
Gli Animali
Year 3 have been practicing their Italian each week and can now remember how to say ten animals names as well as how to say "I am a..." and then the animal name. This week we tested our knowledge by matching the animals names to their pictures on paper to ensure that...
A Very Special Visit
On Monday we had the pleasure of welcoming the pupils, parents and teachers of San Giovanni Bosco school in Thiene, Italy. We started off our day with a special welcome assembly in which we told our visitors all about our school, our local area and even sang a song...
Italian in Year 4
This half term we have been completing the 'I Gelati' topic in Italian in which we have learnt lots of vocabulary to help us to order an ice cream! First, we learnt how to say lots of different flavours, looking closely at how the determiners change depending on...
Year 4’s Video Call to Italy
Yesterday, Year 4 were lucky enough to participate in a Zoom call with the Year 4 class from San Giovanni Bosco school in Italy. We prepared some questions to ask the class and then played a game of Italian charades. The children at San Giovanni Bosco school had also...
Ciao Italia
CIAO RAGAZZI! E buona festa - SI CARNEVALE! It has always been a pleasure to share our wonderful Italian learning with our counterparts at San Giovanni Bosco School in Thiene; Italy. This year is no different. We received a wonderful box (see below) filled with gifts...
MFL in Year 5
We have had a wonderful term in our Year 5 MFL lessons with Italian. Learning about our topic of ‘Animals’ has allowed us to name ten new animal nouns, classify determiners based on gender agreement and then we even had a chance to construct grammatically correct...
Mulan
This week, children entered the world of Mulan. They were shown China on the map and travelled to China in their mind. Children enjoyed hearing the story of Mulan in the St Aidan’s Chinese Garden. Children discovered similarities and differences between life in...