TEAM HOME SCHOOL
Welcome to Team Home School, together we can do this!
Each week I will be adding a new video teaching families some fun French.
Les enfants - children - this is a good time to teach Mum and Dad and show
them what you know! Each week you will have a new:
- lesson in Team Home School with ideas of games and activities to do as a family
- story in our Story Time section
- song in our Sing Along section
Please keep me posted with pics of the activities you
complete and let me know if I can share them on the
website for your friends and family to see.
A huge thanks to brilliantpublications.co.uk and Catherine Barlow who have made all of the songs in the workbook 'J'aime Chanter en Francais' available for FREE in mp3 format. Click on the music icon.
In addition, click on the coloured buttons for FREE French workbooks: yellow button for a French workbook created by Rachel Hawkes - she has created some fabulous activities that I have pulled together into one document for you; pink button for a French workbook created by Mr French aimed at year 3 and green button for a French workbook created by Mr French for year 4, 5 and 6. Mr French's workbooks have answers in the back - parfait!
Get in touch if you want any help with them, Madame Kaler is here to help you!
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For your first FREE trial session:
Email: lisakaler@petite-etoile.co.uk
Call us: 07806 768604
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Bienvenue! Welcome!
We are so pleased to be working with Balliol Primary School.
Petite Etoile currently teaches French lessons to years 3, 4, 5 and 6.
What will your child gain by learning French with Petite Etoile?
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Enthusiasm for language learning
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Open mindedness and a receptive attitude to other cultures
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Awareness of the French culture and similarities and differences to our culture
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Knowledge of French grammar relating to nouns, verbs and adjectives which in turn enhances and reinforces the pupils’ general literacy awareness
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Confidence
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Teamwork and peer support
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A growth mindset with a detective like approach to unfamiliar language
How do we deliver French at Balliol Primary?
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A 30 minute lesson per week with each year class in years 3 to 6.
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Clear routines of meeting and greeting in French to help pupils feel safe and secure.
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Lots of rewards to promote positive learning behaviour: stamps for effort each lesson which lead to prizes; star table awards for teamwork; french ambassador roles to encourage peer support and role modelling.
Quoi de neuf? What's new?
Autumn Term 2025:
- Our favourite songs are here including 'onze, douze, treize!'
- Your 'je m'appelle cards' are here so that you can download at home and practise
- Knowledge organisers of key vocabulary for each stage are available
- There is now a half termly optional homework for you to do at home
- There are short videos of all of the topics covered last term; watch these as a recap or watch with Mum and Dad and teach them! Scroll down....
- Like cooking? A French recipe booklet with simple traditional recipes is available here thanks to the brilliant Madame Birtwistle for you to try at home.
Your lesson recap:
Click below to access short videos to help you recap vocabulary from past lessons. These will be regularly updated.
Lesson Recap
Lesson Recap
Weather
How to make pancakes in French - comment faire des crêpes (en français !)
Greetings 1.TRIM
Extra! Fancy more of a challenge?
If your son or daughter would like more of a challenge, visit our 'Team Home School' page via the button below. Here you will find songs, stories and nursery rhymes to watch and join with. Let me know how you get on! I'd love to see some pics or videos! Email me: lisakaler@petite-etoile.co.uk
Check out the BBC Bitesize Primary French website for Key Stage 2. This has recently been updated and has great activites, songs, stories and games that practise a range of topic areas. Click on the image below and let us know how you get on.
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Sing along! Chantons!
Click the links below to take you to some of our favourite songs that we use:
11 A 20: the 11-20 song
From 'Singing French' (Helen MacGregor & Stephen Chadwick 2004; A & C Black Publishers)
L'ALPHABET:
From 'Singing French' (Helen MacGregor & Stephen Chadwick 2004; A & C Black Publishers)
LA SEMAINE: les 7 jours de la semaine:
From 'Singing French' (Helen MacGregor & Stephen Chadwick 2004; A & C Black Publishers)
Plus click below to hear more of our
class favourites!
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Practise at home... Repete chez toi...
Want to show your family what we have been doing in class? Here are your 'je m'appelle cards' that we use at the start of each lesson for our question time:
Send Madame Kaler a video of you practising these questions and answers with your family or friends! lisakaler@petite-etoile.co.uk
Key vocabulary.... Vocabulaire cle
See below links to our knowledge organisers which contain key vocabulary taught in each stage. Useful if you have missed a lesson or simply if you want to practise at home.
Optional homework... Les devoirs...
Some of you have asked me for tasks to do at home so each half term I will create an optional task for you to do.
Click on the button for your year group and don't forget to show me!
Let's practise our pronunciation Parlons!
Coming soon!
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Pick n' Mix French Activities for all years!
Fancy earning extra reward points? Choose activities from the box and take a pic or video of you doing it and email to Madame Kaler. Lots of the tasks can be completed if you visit our Team Home School page by clicking below:
