Section 5: Planning for celebration

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Section 5 Planning for celebration

• Celebrating achievement in class and outside
• Sharing what children have learned
• Intercultural Understanding celebrating a
  different culture

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Key Point 1 Celebration is an important part of
the ethos of the primary school

• Developing childrens self-esteem
• Raising their confidence
• Setting high standards

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Key Point 2 Celebration can occur at different
levels within the school and with different
audiences

• Within the class
• With another class
• School assembly
• Performance for parents
• Whole school language projects
• Festivals

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Celebration within the class

• Stickers for good work in class speaking or
  writing
• Group presentations to the class
• role-plays
• a song, dance or action rhyme
• a pre-planned learning outcome e.g. weather
  forecast
• Displays of work

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Celebration with another class

• Performance to a parallel class
• Teaching or entertaining a younger class
• Joint activities e.g. picnic, quiz

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School assembly

• Class performs a song or an action rhyme
• Children may prepare powerpoint for assembly e.g.
  words of song (Literacy)
• Class presents information about an aspect of
  culture e.g. schools, geography, festivals in
  English (Dont forget IU!)
• All children of all abilities contribute.

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Performance for parents (who will all be amazed
and very impressed)

• Assembly for parents
• End of year play
• Christmas carol service include one verse of a
  carol in French / German / Spanish
• Harvest festival include some fruit and
  vegetables in French / German / Spanish

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Whole-school language projects

• European Day of Languages 26 September
• Languages Day / Languages Week in Summer Term
• European Theatre Company performance
• Try to include languages not normally taught in
  the school

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Festivals

• Christmas
• St Nicholas 6 December
• La fête des rois 6 January
• Easter
• National days
• (why dont we have one in England?)
• Language and Intercultural Understanding

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Celebrating together

• Celebrate a French / German / Spanish festival in
  class
• Find out from your partner school how they are
  celebrating
• Tell the rest of the school about it in Assembly
• Experience and enjoy a different culture