This week at La Garenne, we have been celebrating ‘Africa’ and as well as eating African food at meal times, the Minis learnt some more interesting facts about Africa during their assembly.
The singing club also performed their song ‘Kusimama’, an African language song, which they are learning and practising in preparation for their trip to ‘Young Voices- Manchester’ in the new year.
This week, we gave star of the week certificates for whichever IPC goal we had seen displayed excellently during the week. The winners were awarded them for communication, resilience and enquiry.

Morality is the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behaviour, and knowing how to put this into practice in a real life situation. This has been the IPC goal for the last week in the Minis.
The students have been showing excellent examples of this, in class and out. Well done to the students who were awarded the star of the week for Morality, which included the whole of Year 5 for their hard work in all academic lessons this week!

This afternoon, several classes were treated to a fascinating talk in french by two mathematics historians, who through extensive research discovered how ancient civilizations were able to indicate any number between 1 and 9999 simply by using their hands. This discovery has been illustrated time and again, through ancient paintings, sculptures and texts. The younger students used pebbles to count on their own abacus and really enjoyed the challenges set to them.
We were delighted to be given our own library copy of the book entitled 'Sur les doigts jusqu'à 9999'.