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Melbourn Village College

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Open Evening

Prospective students and their parents flocked to Melbourn Village College’s Open Evening on Monday.

Visitors had the chance to get involved with a range of activities as they toured the college looking at the different departments.

They tried the steel pans in the music department, made badges in Modern Languages, tried an assault course in PE, celebrated Diwali in Religious Studies/ Ethics and took control of a robotic arm in Computing.

There were also quizzes and challenges for primary pupils to try and young and older alike were amazed by the wonders of science with a ‘magic’ show.

Principal Simon Holmes, new chair of Governors Sue Williamson, the Chief Executive of the Schools’ Network, SSAT, and Comberton Academy Trust Chief Executive Stephen Munday spoke to packed audiences at two talks during the evening.

Mr Holmes said: “It was an excellent evening with a really positive atmosphere and it was a pleasure to see so many MVC students helping out and greeting guest as they went round.”

He added that anybody who missed the evening or who would like another look is welcome at the college during the school day. To arrange a tour please contact reception on 01763 223400 or e-mail office@mvc.org.uk

One day of languages was never going to be enough for students at Melbourn Village College.

Instead of waiting until Saturday to celebrate the annual European Day of Languages, they took part in a whole week of activities, from quizzes to sampling European food.

Students took part in a range of activities for the annual day, which took place on September 26 including tortilla tasting, a pain au chocolat sale, quizzes and games of ‘Who wants to be a Millionaire?’

A highlight was some Year 9 putting their Spanish to good use by teaching Year 7s. Languages teacher Ivana Stanley said: “This is a great way for the Year 9s to celebrate and share their Spanish knowledge and learning and to show Y7 how their language skills will develop over the next couple of years.”

Principal Simon Holmes added: “Being able to speak other Languages is an extremely important skill and is it fantastic to see teachers across the whole college getting involved in a whole week of activities. There’s simply no way we could have fitted everything into a single day!”

Staff and students were also encouraged to link European languages into other subject’s lessons by sharing interesting facts, writing the date in another language and having the lesson’s learning objectives translated.

Medical Mavericks Visit

Students became ‘human Guinea Pigs’ for the day when the Medical Mavericks came to Melbourn Village College.

Pupils in Years 9-11 had the chance to have an ECG, test their lung capacity and lung age and have retinal photographs taken as part of the The Human Guinea Pig Show.

Led by Tom Warrender, founder of educational group Medical Mavericks, the show guided students through different careers in healthcare science, such as respiratory physiology, cardiac physiology, neuro physiology and ophthalmic physiology.

Cat Rich, Teacher of Biology said: “The show was engaging, quick-paced and extremely interesting. Our students were enthused and absorbed everything Tom had to offer.”

Notre Ecole

Children at the Wednesday evening after school club have returned from the summer holidays full of enthusiasm for learning French and our theme for the first half of the autumn term is clothes. We started with a dictionary exercise. In pairs children took clothes and holiday items out of the bag they had been given and used dictionaries to find out the French words they did not already know. Next they taught this vocabulary to the other children in the club so that the children were all able to extend their vocabulary and then we played some games using this vocabulary. We have acted out role plays in a clothes shop and have had fun labelling a set of pictures depicting cartoon dogs in outfits. We have talked about what we are wearing and what we wear at different times of the year and have read a picture book with a clothes theme.

Children at the Thursday after school club at Melbourn Primary School have also been learning the French words for clothes. We have learnt a range of clothing vocabulary and practised talking about their colours. So far we have had fun playing ‘Stations – les Gares’ and a team game of “find the picture”, all to reinforce our newly learnt French vocabulary. We have been practising introducing ourselves and saying where we live and have been singing some French songs; Meunier tu Dors, Frère Jacques and Promenons-nous dans les Bois. We are looking forward to showing our mums and dads what we have learnt at the end of term.

At the adult class we have been revising telling the time.

The annual European Day of Languages

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We have talked about daily routines and used time phrases such as le matin, l’après-midi et le soir. We have practised food vocabulary and asking for precise quantities in a shop. We are just about to start working on the French needed for train travel.

If you or your child are interested in joining one of our groups please get in touch. Notre Ecole, led by a native speaker and a graduate of European Studies with French, has been teaching French to pupils of all ages for fifteen years. Call either Marine on 07533 443153 or Janet on 07791 853448 for further details. If you prefer e-mail, contact boultermarine@ gmail.com or janet.whitton@tiscali.co.uk. We look forward to hearing from you.

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