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Write Away!
celebrating
children’s writing
in Primary Languages
Issue 15 February 2023
W elcome to issue 15 of Write Away! I hope you enjoy looking at
and reading all the pieces of work that children all over the
country have been doing in their language lessons so far this
year.
Find out about this issue's guest language, and don't forget to
look out for my Editor's Pick.
See you for the next issue!
French page 1
Teachers’ Corner page 9
Issue 15
February 2023
Puzzle Corner page 12
lightbulblanguages.co.uk/writeaway
writeaway@lightbulblanguages.co.uk Our guest language for this issue is Breton.
Breton is a Celtic language which is spoken in
Brittany in north-west France. It's closely related
to Cornish and less closely to Welsh, and it also
has a connection to Irish, Scottish Gaelic and
Manx.
The number of Breton speakers has dropped
Editor significantly from over a million in the 1950s to
only about 200,000 now. The language has been
Clare Seccombe
classified as "severely endangered" by UNESCO's
Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.
In 2022 France entered a song in Breton called
"Fulenn" (Spark) for the Eurovision Song Contest
in Turin.
Ma maison
by
Dominic
Year 6, Ramsbottom
français
Vocabulaire
au bord de la mer by the sea
au Brésil in Brazil
aussi also
bleu blue
car because
c'est it is
chambre (f.) bedroom
cinq 5
dans in
en bas downstairs
est is
et and
grand big
il y a there is
impressionnant
impressive
j'adore I love
j'habite I live
ma my (f.)
maison de maître (f.)
mansion
piscine (f.) swimming pool
salle à manger (f.)
dining room
salle de bains (f.) bathroom
salle de jeux (f.)
games room
terrain de foot (m.)
football pitch
très very
pixabay.com
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Ma maison
by
Elvie
Year 5, Whitefield
français
Vocabulaire
aussi also
avec with
buanderie (f.) utility room
car because
c'est it is
chambre (f.) bedroom
chat (m.) cat
chez moi at my house
confortable comfortable
cuisine (f.) kitchen
en bas downstairs
en haut upstairs
et and
grenier (m.) attic
il y a there is
j'adore I love
j'ai I have
j'ai … ans I am… years old
jardin (m.) garden
je m'appelle I am called
j'habite I live
ma my (f.)
neuf 9
salle de bains (f.) bathroom
salon (m.) living room
Well done Elvie! The accuracy
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and neatness of your work
WC (m.) toilet along with your illustrations
have made it an obvious choice
for this issue's Editor's Pick.
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Ma maison
by
Ophelia
Year 6, Ramsbottom
français
Vocabulaire
assez quite
aussi also
avec with
buanderie (f.) utility room
car because
c'est it is
chambre (f.) bedroom
cuisine (f.) kitchen
dans in
deux 2
en bas downstairs
en haut upstairs
entrée (f.) entrance hall
en ville in town
et and
grand big
il y a there is
j'adore I love
j'habite I live
ma my (f,)
maison de maître (f.)
mansion
salle à manger (f.)
dining room
salle de bains (f.) bathroom
salle de jeux (f.)
games room
salon (m.) living room
très very
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pixabay.com
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français
Es-tu écolo à la maison ?
by
Harrison
Year 6, Bury
Vocabulaire cuisine (f.) kitchen on peut one can
dans in preferer to prefer
appareil électrique (m.)
electrical device douche (f.) shower pull (m.) jumper
arbre (m.) tree et and salle à manger (f.) dining room
au to the éteindre to turn off salle de bains (f.) bathroom
bain (m.) bath jardin (m.) garden salon (m.) living room
baisser to lower lumière (f.) light
chauffage (m.) heating mettre to put
pevar 4
Ma maison
by
Shyheim
Year 5, Newcastle
français
Vocabulaire
au premier étage
on the first floor
au rez-de-chaussée
on the ground floor
bonjour hello
cave (f.) cellar
chambre (f.) bedroom
cuisine (f.) kitchen
et and
grenier (m.) attic
il y a there is
il n'y a pas de there is no
jardin (m.) garden
je m'appelle I am called
j'habite I live
salle de bains (f.) bathroom
salon (m.) living room
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pixabay.com
pemp 5
La ligne d'arrivée
by
Dhruvi
Year 6, Harrow
français
Vocabulaire
à côté de next to
assis seated
attendant waiting
bon good
chemin (f.) path
commencer to begin
enfin at last
espoir (m.) hope
et and
faire to do
ligne d'arrivée (f.)
finishing line
marchant walking
moi-même myself
nos our (pl.)
notre our (sg.)
nous we
partir to leave
rêve (m.) dream
rien nothing
seul alone
sommet (m.) top
sur on
toi you
venir to come
c'hwec'h 6
Ce que j'ai fait hier
by
Jacob
Year 5, Harrow
français
Vocabulaire
après after
ce que what
chez mon ami
my friend's house
faire du patin à roulettes
to go roller skating
glace (f.) ice cream
heure (f.) hour
hier yesterday
j'ai fait I did
je suis allé I went
je suis resté I stayed
manger to eat
nous sommes allés we went
pendant during
pixabay.com
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Ceinture noire
by
Noarii
Year 6, Harrow
français
Vocabulaire
an (m.) year
arts martiaux (m.pl.)
martial arts
attendre to wait
ceinture noire (f.)
black belt
donc therefore
et and
étudier to study
fier proud
il y a ago
j'ai commencé I started
j'ai décidé I decided
j'ai étudié I studied
j'aime I like
j'ai passé mon examen
I took my exam
je dois I must
je suis I am
jusqu'à until
maintenant now
mois (m.) month
passer to take (exam)
pendant during
pour in order to
premier first
protéger to protect
semaine (f.) week
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eizh 8Teachers’ Corner
Find out more information about the writing featured
1-3 Jane Birtwistle
How long have the children been learning French?
Since Year 3
How long are their language lessons?
60 minutes a fortnight (2 week timetable)
Describe briefly the teaching and learning activities that took place prior to the children writing this
piece.
Our lessons this half term focused on the vocabulary, grammar and structures below, before concluding
the topic with a piece of writing about a real or fictional home: Ma maison:
• Types of housing and locations: Pupils enjoyed researching homes including French castles and
mountain lodges and discovering French costal, mountain, urban and countryside regions!
• Rooms in a house, including il y a, noun gender, plural nouns, adjectives of size (Year 6 only) and
intensifiers (Year 6 only)
• en / au / aux + country (Year 6)
• Expressing opinions
What support did the children have to enable them to complete this piece of writing?
Access to class work in pupil folders, teacher-prepared sentence builder.
What do you particularly like about these pieces of work?
I particularly liked how the Year 5 piece of writing demonstrated creativity and independence by
including a sentence about her family pet in addition to forming plural nouns correctly!
The Year 6 pieces of writing demonstrate great use of intensifiers, and correct position and agreement of
adjectives of size!
Jane Birtwistle
4
How long have the children been learning French?
Since Year 3
nav 9How long are their language lessons?
60 minutes a fortnight (2 week timetable)
Describe briefly the teaching and learning activities that took place prior to the children writing this
piece.
This was an enjoyable enrichment lesson! Our last French lesson this half-term took place during a
whole-school eco-themed week - “Laudato Si” - where the pupils were exploring Pope Francis’ message
to ‘Care for our Common Home’. In French, we took the opportunity to link this to our current topic on
home (Ma maison). We recapped vocabulary on rooms in a house and recapped some phrases about
protecting the environment, then put them together to create an origami house and a piece of writing:
Es-tu écolo à la maison ? (Are you green at home?)
What support did the children have to enable them to complete this piece of writing?
Access to class work in pupil folders, teacher-prepared sentence builder.
What do you particularly like about this piece of work?
I particularly like the way he has used the simple sentence builder as a springboard to challenge himself
to produce more complex sentences using conjunctions. He took great pride in the work and illustrated
it beautifully, and then presented it to the rest of the class.
Georgia Villalobos, Caroline Hewson
5
How long have the children been learning French?
2 years
How long are their language lessons?
45 minutes, once a week
Describe briefly the teaching and learning activities that took place prior to the children writing this
piece.
In the run up to writing this piece, the children took part in a series of lessons, learning vocabulary to
describe different rooms, adjectival agreement, verb endings and when to use phrases such as j’habite à
and il y a. They took part in speaking, listening and reading activities in the build up to their writing piece,
and found out how the insides of French homes might differ from English homes.
What support did the children have to enable them to complete this piece of writing?
The children in the class had varying degrees of support with this activity from word mats, to writing
frames, to models where words could be swapped in or out. In the case of the children who have
submitted work, they had writing frames.
What do you particularly like about this piece of work?
I particularly love how they have not just listed which rooms they do have but which rooms they do not
have.
dek 106-8 Nadine Chadier
How long have the children been learning French?
Since Reception
How long are their language lessons?
30 minutes a day in Key Stage 1 and 40 minutes a day in Key Stage 2. They do weekly Art and Design
and PE in French too.
Describe briefly the teaching and learning activities that took place prior to the children writing this
piece.
After revising conjugation in the present tense, the children have started learning about the passé
composé. At the end of these sessions, they were encouraged to write poems completely independently.
What support did the children have to enable them to complete this piece of writing?
They had verb tables, glossaries and French/English dictionaries, and all the previous French learning in
their books they started with phonics in Year 1 and all written work from Year 3.
What do you particularly like about these pieces of work?
How different they are and how the children have expressed themselves on various topics, using the
structures learnt. Their imagination and creativity has highly impressed and surprised us.
unnek 11Puzzle Corner
Which languages are spelled out in Morse Code?
A A
B B
1. french
C C
D D 2. japanese
E E
F F 3. portuguese
G G
H H
I
4. icelandic
I
J J
K K 5. ukrainian
L L
M M 6. welsh
N N
O O
P
7. greek
P
Q Q
R R 8. cantonese
S S
T T 9. tagalog
U U
V V
10. german
W W
X X
Y Y 11. breton
Z Z
12. punjabi
daouzek 12Puzzle Corner
Solution from issue 14
1. Spanish
2. German
3. Italian
4. English
5. Portuguese
6. Polish
7. Icelandic
8. Gaelic
9. Finnish
10. Norwegian
11. Hungarian
12. Romanian
13. Turkish
14. Croatian
15. Irish
16. Arabic
17. Punjabi
18. Japanese
19. Mandarin
20. Xhosa
21. Burmese
22. Hindi
trizek 13to all the children and teachers who have contributed their work to Write Away!
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