L'échange commence jeudi! - Les Français arrivent!

Our French exchange guests arrive on Thursday and we are excited to welcome them to beautiful pays de Galles!

They sent us a video message to say hello before their arrival! Enjoy!

Year 12 visit Paris!

Here are Year 12 French students raring to go at the Eurostar terminal in St. Pancras, London this afternoon! They are currently spending an exciting 4 days exploring the sites and sounds of Paris. Many thanks to Madame Thomas and Mr Ling for accompanying them! More photos to follow soon.

Language Club starts again January 21st!

Bald ist Weihnachten! C'est bientôt le Noël!

 

Enjoy these French and German songs in your lessons this week or at home too!

25 years ago today the Berlin Wall fell. Germany commemorates andcelebrates.

9th November 1989 after months of political pressure the Berlin Wall was forced down. Germany could begin to celebrate and hope for freedom for all its citizens.

BBC tells the history in 60 seconds

To celebrate 25 years since "der Mauerfall" Berlin created a "Lichtgrenze"- a light border along the route where the wall originally was. 

Here are thousands of people celebrating and hoping for freedom 25 years ahold today.

This video also gives a very succinct and fascinating version of the events!

The Berlin wall - This is another great link to read and watch more about the Berlin wall.

European Day of Languages celebrations - Food! Essen! A manger!

Friday 26th September was an exciting day for Cowbridge MFL students with lots of exciting events taking place all day!
During lunchtime students had the opportunity to taste délicieux food from European countries: pain au chocolat, brioche, chorizo, salami, stollen, fromage, pain, Haribo Bonbons, chocolat and much more.

The excitement at the food!

To be able to relish the tasty international food, there was only one deal; the students had to ask for the food in either cymraeg, français, deutsch, español or italiano! Some students chose to talk in another language to ask for the food too; in addition to the above languages we heard some Swedish, some Slovak and also Norwegian!

Nick in Year 12 German helping students to practise their language skills.

The queue for the food!

Here's Nick again full of
enthusiasm.

Our new French language assistant, Anne-Cécile
gets stuck in and helps out! Merci beaucoup!

 



Year 12 and 13 students dress up in a
continental theme to help out!

Here is Hannah in Year 12 helping
students to brush up their
language skills!

And Aldi in Year 13!

Lots of lecker, délicieux tasty treats!

Many thanks to all of Year 12 and Year 13 language
students who helped out ! Here they all are lined up
looking very European!

Shellie in Year 12 is getting very into her Welsh
here!

Enjoying the food!

Luca in Year 12 sporting a
very good look here!

Toby in Year 12 looking
particularly great as well!

Canteen Food for EDL on Friday

European Day of Languages - Celebrate with us on Friday!

Language Taster Club September 2014

Another ex-Cowbridge student sets off abroad!

Fred Bisson left Cowbridge in 2012 having studied Maths, Physics, Further Maths and German at A-level. He loved Maths and chose to study it at Warwick university. However he has recently made the decision to take up the opportunity of a year abroad in Gottingen, Germany during his degree.



Here is Fred on some other exciting travels this Summer in China!

This is what Fred wrote about choosing to study abroad for a year:

Doing Maths probably worked in my favour for the year abroad. Warwick university has a good network of partner universities in Europe and the department are keen to promote the ERASMUS programme as we receive a lot of students as well. I found myself well placed after German A level compared to other candidates and could pick from a lot of universities in Germany. I chose Göttingen because loads of famous mathematicians studied there and it is a historic university town so I quite wanted to experience that kind of atmosphere as opposed to the modern hub of Warwick. A good thing about my university is how many opportunities they give you so I was lucky enough to be sent to summer school in Beijing which was great fun and gave me the opportunity to see a whole new world.

Living in Hamburg, Germany - a former student's blog!

 

You may remember Bethan Thomas  who has visited school a number of times, the latest being this July. Bethan graduated from Southampton with a 2.1 in French and German this year. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Félicitations. She has now decided that she can't get enough of life abroad (who can blame her!) and is currently working as an Intern in Hamburg for the year. Her blog makes for entertaining and informative reading! Enjoy.
You can follow her blog here: Verloren in Traduction
There is a prize if anyone can work out why her blog is called: Verloren in Traduction!

The MFL department wishes you all happy, fun and safe summer holidays

und ...... Deutschland wird Weltmeister!

Götze  - wir danken dir!

 Die Fans feiern in Berlin!

Die Weltmeisterschaftfinale beginnt gleich um 20:00 heute Abend

Normandy visit. Voici la méteo pour Caen.

Lots of excited Year 7 students and teachers are preparing for their 3 day visit to Normandy. They are departing in the early hours of Wednesday morning!

World War One day was commemorated across school today.

The MFL department encouraged reflection among our students today as part of the school's World War One commemoration day.

First of all students wrote and discussed their first thoughts upon looking at some horrifying pictures of World War One. Here are a few of the pictures they discussed and some of their first reactions upon seeing the images. 

 

The students discussed their feelings and thoughts about the suffering and deaths of millions of soldiers, among them Germans, British, French and other nationalities. Whichever nationality soldiers were, their suffering, pain and sorrow was immeasurable.

On a more uplifting note students then watched a short film clip about the Christmas truce of 1914 and imagined what it would be like to make friends with soldiers who had previously been seen as the enemy. Many students were heard to say: "they were just like us".

Many thanks to all the students who took part in the discussions in such a mature and reflective manner today and were willing to consider World War One from another perspective. 

Deutschland und Frankreich haben heute Abend im Viertelfinal gespielt!

Und......... Deutschland hat 1-0 gewonnen!

Hummels hat das wichtige Tor geschossen. Hier ist er und ein bisschen Information über ihn.

Deutschland hat am Montag gegen Algerien gewonnen!

Am Freitag werden Frankreich und Deutschland im Viertelfinal jetzt spielen!
Vendredi ce sera le match France et Allemagne!

Compare their statistics in their previously played matches against each other here!

Deutschland hat gestern gewonnen!

Dank Müller steht Deutschland im Achtelfinale der WM!

La France s'est qualifiée pour les quarts de final!

Première du groupe E, la France affrontera le Nigeria, second du groupe F derrière l'Argentine dans les quarts de finale!