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NEWS, EV ENTS & AC T I V I T I ES

Modern Foreign Languages FRENCH DEPARTMENT

“A different language is a different vision of life” The French department has been lucky this year to be involved in some of the Alliance Française activities in which staff and Sixth Form pupils were invited to watch a film in French Abrahadabra and participate in a Q&A session with the film’s director, Yannick Ruault. It was a delicate and emotional independent film about the life of a young girl, whose life is turned upside down by the death of her father in a terrorist attack, plunging her into a waking dream. We enjoyed seeing aspects of the French countryside alongside beautiful prose which helped create a true sense of ‘dreaming.’ The following discussion, all in French, with the director allowed the audience to practise their questioning technique, express their ideas and hear from a native speaker, discussing his ideas and decisions in the making of the film. A very interesting and enjoyable evening was had by all, with lots of opportunities of exposure to French and to speak French with fellow Francophiles. Studying classic French literature is one of the perks of the Pre U French course, and it’s even better when the play we study, Cyrano de Bergerac first performed in 1897, is still being performed to this day and is used to inspire new productions. Our Sixth Form pupils and l met at the Grand Opera House in York and little did we know what treat would be in store for us when we saw Edmond de Bergerac starring Freddie Fox and Josie Lawrence. It certainly was a comedy and told the story of Edmond Rostand’s quest to write a play in three weeks, beginning only with the title

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Cyrano de Bergerac. The play, written by French director Alexis Mikhalik, shows Rostand’s quest to find the plot for his play and by doing so told us as an audience, the heroic comedy of Cyrano de Bergerac. It taught us a lot about the classic play, making us laugh and cry!


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Girls’ Swimming

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page 202

Beverley 10k

2min
pages 198-199

Football

2min
pages 196-197

St Peter’s School Boat Club

12min
pages 190-195

Rounders

3min
pages 188-189

Cricket

17min
pages 180-187

Boys’ Hockey

9min
pages 162-165

Rugby

25min
pages 171-179

English

5min
pages 144-145

Netball

11min
pages 166-170

Boys’ Tennis

3min
pages 156-157

Creative Writing

15min
pages 146-151

Girls’ Tennis

6min
pages 153-155

Music

10min
pages 136-143

Shakespeare Schools’ Festival

1min
pages 120-121

Science Quizzes

1min
page 105

Drama

7min
pages 107-119

Science Christmas Lecture

2min
page 104

Sixth Form Speaks

1min
pages 98-99

Science Lectures

3min
pages 102-103

Stargazing Live

1min
page 100

Lectures

4min
pages 95-97

Religious Studies and Philosophy

4min
pages 86-88

Exploration Week

2min
pages 92-94

Duke of Edinburgh’s Award

3min
pages 89-91

Modern Foreign Languages

8min
pages 82-85

Debating and Public Speaking

3min
pages 79-81

Maths Trust Challenges

2min
pages 76-77

Business and Economics

1min
page 75

Art Exhibitions

4min
pages 72-74

House Challenge

1min
page 71

ISSP

2min
page 69

National Schools’ Challenge

1min
page 70

South Africa Netball & Hockey Tour

4min
pages 60-63

Geography Field Trip to Arran

4min
pages 56-59

London Politics Trip

1min
page 52

Ski Trip

2min
pages 53-55

Spanish Trip to Salamanca

4min
pages 50-51

Washington Trip

2min
pages 48-49

Cambodia

5min
pages 44-47

Art Trips

3min
pages 41-43

The Rise

3min
pages 38-39

The Manor

4min
pages 36-37

Temple

4min
pages 32-33

The Grove

3min
pages 34-35

Queen’s

3min
pages 28-29

School

4min
pages 30-31

Linton

6min
pages 26-27

Hope

4min
pages 24-25

VALETE

10min
pages 14-16

Dronfield

4min
pages 22-23

SALVETE

3min
pages 17-18

Clifton

4min
pages 20-21

COMMEMORATION

15min
pages 6-11

TRIBUTE - CAMRON MILLER

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pages 12-13

INTRODUCTION

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