This week we are celebrating Chinese week, we will be holding Chinese cooking classes on Tuesday, Chinese meals during the week, Chinese music when we wake up each morning, Chinese caligraphy lessons and much more! A big thank you to the parents who sent us the decorations for the school and Mrs Sun our Chinese teacher who has helped with decorations and cooking classes!

Each morning the rooms are checked and the students are informed if their room is tidy, beds made and cupboards in order. They may be awarded points or may lose points if they have not kept their rooms neat and tidy. They have posters in their rooms explaining what neat and tidy means as they 'sometimes' forget !

For Spanish Week at La Garenne, the primary section were introduced to this with an informative assembly by our Year 5 pupils. The Year 5 class taught us so much about Spanish culture, not only in Spain but in other Spanish speaking countries around the world. There are 20 countries that have Spanish as their official language and more than 400 million people speak Spanish around the world.

Each child presented information, that they had individually researched, about a famous Spanish person or festival. We heard about Rafael Nadal, the No.1 tennis champion, Salvador Dali and Picasso, the famous artists, as well as about some Spanish footballers and ‘La Tomatina’ festival, where people throw tomatoes at each other!

The girls treated us to a Flamenco dance as they had been practising some of the moves and the boys each introduced themselves and their ages in Spanish.

The assembly finished with everyone in the primary section having a go at learning some Spanish words, led by Rodrigo, our Year 5 Spanish speaker!

In a few weeks, the older students will be able to participate in the evening disco on the ice, here in Villars. It will be a good evening and I am sure they will enjoy themselves.

The students have had a very busy weekend and this week are again enjoying the after school activities. With their music clubs, danse, Chinese cooking class and video club, just another quiet afternoon!