Spain

Our trust link Spanish school in Madrid, CEIP Blas de Otero, has posted their Christmas cards for our Year 1 children!

As well as receiving each other's wonderful cards, the classes will also learn some simple phrases in their partner school's language and a bit about the different ways in which Christmas is celebrated in their country.

Find out more about our Spanish link school by visiting their website: https://www.educa2.madrid.org/web/cp.blasdeotero-madrid/inicio

Happy Christmas and Feliz Navidad from them to all our families!

Year 1 from Green End and Cringle Brook Primary school and Year 2 from Ladybarn Primary school collaborated with our link Spanish school in Madrid this summer - CEIP Blas de Otero. As they were all studying the topic of plants, they thought it would be interesting to compare similarities and differences between plants and flowers, learn key vocabulary about the topic in each other's languages and also look at the different activities they were doing.

They were surprised to find out that some of the vocabulary in Spanish was very similar to the English equivalents, for example:

Broccoli - Brocoli

Tulip - Tulipan

Petunias -Petunia

Lettuce - Lechuga

They really enjoyed learning together in this topic, asking each other questions and they looked forward to the regular picture updates! They also enjoyed sharing the progress of the different seeds that they had all planted - in different ways!

Have a look at their work on their padlet: 'Our Online School Garden.'

https://padlet.com/r_asif1/dtgx0juyu9xjxewc?utm_campaign=transactional&utm_content=padlet_url&utm_medium=email&utm_source=started_a_padlet

Year 5 children at Ladybarn Primary school collaborated with our link Spanish school in Madrid this half term, CEIP Blas de Otero. As Spanish is a fairly new MFL language for them, they were really excited! They decided to practise greetings in each other's languages and send these to each other for feedback on pronunciation and grammar - like teachers! The children at Ladybarn sent a video and the children from CEIP Blas de Otero wrote to our children. It was interesting to hear how school life for them had also changed due to Covid - 19. We also learnt that we had lots of other things in common such as hobbies and favourite foods. We are looking forward to finding out more in the future.