Peacock Press November 2011.pdf - Belvoir High School

FUNDS RAISED FOR LIFE SAVING EQUIPMENTPublic Access DefibrillatorWe have spent the last year raising money to purchase apublic access defibrillator. With generous help from TheVale of Belvoir Lions and Martin Fagan of CommunityHeartbeat, we now have our defibrillator installed. Traininghas been taking place at school so that members of staffare now confident to use the defibrillator should the needarise. Students in the First Aid club will soon also be taughtto use the equipment. We will be running more trainingsessions for anyone else who is interested in the springterm.EUROPEAN WEEK OF LANGUAGESAt the end of September wecelebrated the European Week ofLanguages in school which tied inwith the annual European day oflanguages on the 26th September.In the Modern Foreign Languagesdepartment pupils took part in avariety of events and activities andother departments such as PSHCEand Drama also got involved withlessons centred around the themeof languages of the world and theculture of these languages.Year 9 pupils visited NottinghamForest football club to interviewGuy Moussi, a French speakingfootballer. The pupils asked Guyquestions in French and were askedto repeat his answer back in Englishto check they had understood. Thepupils were also interviewed for theNottingham Evening Post and havefeatured in the club's match dayprogramme. The pupils reallyenjoyed the experience of usingFrench in a real context.Year 11 GCSE French pupilsaccompanied Miss Allen and Mrs.Shelton to Nottingham afterschool on Tuesday of thelanguages week to visit anexhibition at the Nottinghamcontemporary created by artistsinspired by the work of JeanGenet. This was followed by ameal at a French restaurant in thecity. The pupils had theopportunity to order their foodand drinks in French and took partin a French quiz run by our friendlyFrench waiter Fred! All the platesof food were quickly consumed asthe food was truly delicious!Year 7 pupils had the opportunityto complete European Passportswith flags and coins representingeach European country and pupilsin all year groups had anopportunity to try out some funquizzes including a cryptic musicquiz.Several classes also had theopportunity to do tasks involvingour French partner school in Parisincluding video blogging and writingletters to their new penpals.Lots of form groups entered into thespirit of the week by trying out therather challenging form quiz. Mysteryteachers from the school hadrecorded themselves speaking in aforeign language and the pupils hadto work out which teacher wasspeaking and which language it was!Mr. Carter did a particularly goodsentence in Japanese!The canteen also participated bycooking up some lovely Europeanthemed food, every day wasdifferent and included specialitiesfrom Austria and Spain amongstothers. Thank you to all the canteenstaff who helped with this.Many thanks to all staff and pupilswho took part during this week asthis helped to make it such afantastic experience for so manypeople! Miss Allen