The journey has started ...

Well, we are just a few metres from our train and the journey south has gone really well so far. 

Some children have slept; others haven't! 

We should be travelling on an earlier train, departing on the 6.47 instead. 

There have clearly been too many E numbers consumed by the younger proportion of the coach; but they are all beginning to think that sleep would be a good idea. 

We are all aware that many of you are just waking up as we bid au revoir to England and bonjour to la France. 

We all want to wish Jake lots of luck in his GCSE Statistics exam - and we hope that Mrs Verow and him have a lovely flight out to join us later today (we will save you a pain au chocolat). 

See you all soon. 

Are you excited?

So, it's the BIG DAY. There'll be a fantastic buzz of excitement at 11.30 tonight outside Clough Hall Technology School, as parents hand their children over to teachers for the week.  The languages trip has become an institution for some of the children in school - they come every year and can't bring themselves to miss one. For other children, they will only be allowed to one once, and they have DEFINITELY chosen a fantastic trip to enjoy! We will be updating the blog as we travel to Paris and at the end of the day each day. There'll be photos of the exciting things we do, there'll be tales of the things thy we have done, and there'll be snippets of things that have happened throughout the days. 

Lundi ...

On va partir en autobus dimanche soir.  Nous allons prendre le train pour aller en France. 

Lundi, nous allons visiter une boulangerie.  Nous allons visiter une cimitière et un centre commercial.  Ca sera super !  Nous allons trouver notre hôtel, où nous nous installerons dans nos chambres.

Places we are visiting in Paris during #Paris2013

Want to get finding out about our trip?  Have a goosey-gander at the following places:

Monday

1. Boulangerie Berquier - they have no website; but, do you know how to say: butter, water, flour and salt in French?  If not, I wholeheartedly recommend finding out!
2. Australian Memorial - this website will show you about the memorial and the cemetery and what it all means.
3. Usines Center - this is an outlet mall - it is quite big and will appeal to some more than others(!).
4. Our hotel

Tuesday

1. Tour Montparnasse - the website for this tower is AMAZING and looks phenomenal - the views are fab.
2. View the Louvre and the Jardin des Tuileries
3. Just look at this website about the Champs-Elysées
4. Visit to the Arc de Triomphe and to see the flame lighting ceremony
5. This is the restaurant in which we will be dining on Tuesday evening

Wednesday

1. Today, we will mainly be travelling by underground
2. We will visit the Moulin Rouge, Montmartre, the Sacre Coeur, before jumping back on the underground to head to ...
3. The Pompidou Centre and then for a short walk to catch a double decker RER train (!) to get to ...
4. The Parisian Sewers!
5. Quick stop at the Eiffel Tower before we head for our evening meal at the Hard Rock Café
6. The we are back towards the Eiffel Tower to meet our boat for our evening river cruise

Thursday

1. Today, we will mainly be enjoying our day at Disneyland 

 Friday 

1. Before we get the the Tunnel, we will spend some time at the beach in Boulogne-sur-Mer

Wow! What a week - do explore our week so you know what to expect :-)

Information for Parents following trip meeting

If you want to see our twitter feed, but aren't a tweeter or a follower of our account, please just follow this link to our twitter page 

The emergency details form can be found below:

France trip emergency details

The PowerPoint presentation shared at our meeting is now found below:

Meeting presentation (Paris)

Linguascope fundraising - £250 challenge

Don't forget - our challenge is to raise as close to £250 as possible by November 2013!  We've talked to all Key Stage 4 classes about it this week and have started the fundraising efforts.  We really want to raise the money, as otherwise we won't be able to afford the subscription cost for the website this year :-(

Bake sales and things will be common place soon we hopee - make sure you try and support us as much as you possibly can.  If you have any loose change that you want to put in the linguascope pot, then just come and see one of us.

We have dictionaries for sale at £1.50 each towards the linguascope pot as well.

 In the meantime, don't forget you can all access linguascope to help suport your learning at home.  Check the display in the classrooms for the password.  Username is chts. Visit the website: www.linguascope.co.uk

Any other ideas - come along and see us.

Some websites for GCSE German revision

#3sleepstogo

You've had loads of app suggestions - now here are some websites for you to exploit:

1. Bitesize - there are loads of listening tasks here as well as reading bits and bobs
2. S-cool - here divided by topic (at this stage, ignore the 'grammar' section - the others will be more use now)
3. Gut - so long as you want to use this after 4pm, it is free!  Use the Year 10 and Year 11 stuff
4. Linguascope - you should know our username and password, if not email Miss Milne
5. Languages online - loads of games for vocab and structures practice
6. Languages online (2nd link) - just vocab games, no structures
7. Revision World - broken down by topic
8. GCSE German Revision - lots of reading in English, but some good ideas nonetheless for you here

Give them a go, and remember to let us know which you prefer.