Our French students are a very keen group and are inspired by the enthusiasm of their teacher Mme Karen Perkins. Throughout the years, they have produced some great projects which we would like to share with you. We also have some links to French pages which may be helpful. We have our own email address too, if any schools would care to write. Click here to send us an email.

2004

In September, the Year 6 students designed their own chateau and 7 students made a diary of the Olympics in French. Click here for some more photos.
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In April, Year 6 French students completed their unit 'Les Fetes' - where they learnt the  stages of organising a party in French. They completed a project 'Une surprise -partie'. We held a class party to finish the unit. We made 'Mousse au chocolat' for our party. Miam! We also played a party game in French 'Le Jeu du Paquet' Fantastique!!  Click here for some more photos.

On Shrove Tuesday, 24 February, 2004, French students at Rochedale State School in Years 6 and 7, celebrated "Carnaval", a French Festival. Students made masks - 'les masques de Mardi Gras'. Some of them were - 'le pirate(pirate), la japonaise (Japanese lady), le chat (cat), l'extra terrestre' (et), le robot (robot), le clown (clown). Students in Year 7 made deer masks to reflect their studies of New Caledonia and its fauna. Deer are called 'les cerfs' in French. Students also played French games including 'l'avaleur de pois' - the pea game. C'est tres amusant!!!
Au Revoir!!

To see more photos, have a look at our page on Shrove Tuesday.

2003
In July, French students in Years 6 and 7 celebrated Bastille Day - c'était super!! Students sampled some 'déliciex' French patisseries - éclairs au café/chocolat or millefeuille) vanilla slice). Click here for some photos.

In 2003, French and Chinese are both learnt only in Years 6 and 7. During the Mardi Gras celebrations this year some of our French students made and decorated masks similar to those worn during the celebrations. Here's some photos of their colourful masks:

2001/2
Bonjour! Ca va tre’s bien ici a Rochedale.
On Tuesday 22 October, 2002, a group of Year 7 French students and parents enjoyed a feast of French and French/African cuisine at '‘LaKasbah’ Restaurant. The highlight of the evening were:-

• les escargots – Miam, miam!
• le vin blac et le vin rose’
• les profiteroles – delicieux!

An enjoyable ‘soiree’ for all who attended. Merci to parents and our students – who the chef congratulated as the friendliest school group they’ve had at the restaurant. I hope to have the restaurant excursion every year for our Year 7’s.
Au revoir et
A bientot, Mme Perkins

Fashion Parade
On the Tuesday before Easter, all of the Year 6 classes participated in a French parade. The fashions were not haute couture, but all the commentaries were prepared by the mannequins in French. Disco music was played over the speaker system in the hall as each model pranced, danced, skated or skipped on to the stage. Click here for our photos.

Correspondence with France
M. Marc Armenier is the teacher of the senior class at Ecole Nice on the French Riviera, and our Year 6 students have been writing to his class. We have tried to overcome the difficulties of our different holidays by ensuring that we write just before one of our breaks, thus giving them our holiday to respond. Unfortunately, our key pals will be going to college after their summer break in July and August.

We have sent off a snail mail packet of Australian flag stickers, a few personal cards and information in English about our school, as well as lots of emails and photos taken with our digital camera. In second term, we will be preparing posters of things around Brisbane described in French, and also of our native animals which are always fascinating to overseas visitors. We have been surprised by the number of refugee children that France takes in.

2000
Keypals:
Our liaison with the College de l'Evre in Montrevault, Western France, is progressing well. Some Year 7's continue to exchange emails and letters, while the Year 6's are taking turns to take home and write about our kookaburra, Ollie, before he sets off for France.

The teacher, Erick Williamson, spent time in England, and speaks English fluently, so is inspiring his students with a love of the English language.

Projects:
Our research projects  expand our knowledge of France.  We have added topics like the Channel Tunnel, the Concorde, the TGV, the Metro and Festivals of France.

The Year 7's did their third term research in display form for our fete on 26th August. Click here for some pictures of our great projects.

Ollie:
Here's a couple of pictures of Ollie our Travel Buddy, who's off to France. Wish we could go with him!!

1999

To celebrate Bastille Day, we had a French breakfast. Click here for our report.

Here's our other French pages: