We took LOTS of photos on Sports Day - see if you can spot any of your friends! Citywest ETNS are delighted to announce the election of our very first Student Council, following requests from First Class for the formation of a council, and subsequent campaigning by a number of First Class students. Every student and member of staff was involved in this democratic process, in which an Election Committee worked with Caitríona to lay the groundwork for Election procedures to be adhered to in elections in the coming years. We have had a hugely successful Mother Language/Book Week. In all, 13 adults visited us and read stories to us in 8 different languages. Our visitors included fathers, step-fathers and grandfathers; mothers, grandmothers and big sisters. The children really enjoyed it. It was so lovely to see a child's face light up when they heard their "home" language being spoken at school! Some children spoke more during the discussion after a story than we've heard them speak before - what a wonderful chance for these children to express themselves freely using a language they are comfortable with! Other children enjoyed learning new languages and listening to the mother language of their friends. See photos of each visit here: Polish stories with - Kamila - Lucasz - Peter and Peter's parents - Katarzyna Lithuanian story with Jurgita Spanish story with Ruth Italian story with Emmanuela Hindi story with Anjala Catalan story with Sandra Irish story with Ailish English story with Sophie Thank you so very much to everyone who visited us. We hope you enjoyed your visit as much as we did! dziękuję ¡gracias धन्यवाद ačiū Gràcies Thank you grazie Go raibh maith agat! The last story of Book Week and Mother Language Week was a story in English. Sophie read us Room on the Broom. We had a great discussion about whether this was a kind or a mean witch and we talked about what we would do if we were in her position. It was a lovely finish to a most successful week! Jurgita read us a Lithuanian story about the tortoise who wanted to find a mate but was always too slow. The illustrations in the book are beautiful and we really enjoyed the story, though we felt sad for the poor tortoise. Sandra visited us on Friday and read us a beautiful story in Catalan. Sandra was very interested to hear all about our own mother languages and gave everyone a chance to tell her about their language. We had lots of questions about the story she read, which was about how a very hairy rhino and a bald flamingo helped each other out! Ar an Aoine, léigh Ailish leabhar álainn darbh ainm Ar an mBóthar dúinn. Thaitin sé go mór linn! Bíonn áthas ar gach duine dul ar saoire ach tá sé tábhachtach teacht abhaile arís! Anjala came to the school on Thursday to tell us all about Akbar and Birbal. Anjala was so enthusiastic and fun and she used half English and half Hindi to tell us two stories. Some of us already knew about these characters and we loved hearing Hindi at school! Emmanuela visited us on Thursday to read this lovely book for us. We really enjoyed seeing the different parts of the dragon hiding throughout the story. It was so funny! Even those of us who don't speak Italian could understand the story and we loved the texture of the pages! It was so lovely to hear such a lovely Italian story! |
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