La Scuola

La Scuola video – click on this link to view the video.

Year 11 – you are a bit old for this (!) but there is a lot of useful vocabulary in here and it might give you some ideas for talking about your primary school in Italiano. You will notice different ways to say ‘I like’ and that the primary school day in Italy is different to the ‘superiore’.

Reminder to Year 11 Students from English

Year 11 students are reminded to purchase and bring in a copy of their set texts for this half term.

WJEC GCSE English and English Language Higher Textbook 

ISBN- 978-0-435016-87-6

 

Students will have been advised by their teacher which play they are studying from the options below:

Blood Brothers

ISBN- 978-0-413-76770-7

A View from the Bridge

ISBN- 0-435-23312-2

 

Students in Miss Turner’s class do not need to purchase the plays.

 

The English Department

Festa Italo Inglese

Thursday 24th October 2013 saw the first annual Festa Italo-Inglese. Able, Gifted and Talented students in Year 10 at St Joan of Arc met with the four exchange students from the Liceo Sacro Cuore in Milan to show them the ‘St Joan of Arc Survival Sketches’ video. Made during a workshop in July, the aim of the video was to welcome the Italians to British school life and to help them avoid any faux pas! After laughing and cringing along to the videos, attendees dined on Mrs Perotti’s homemade arancini and chatted in both Italian and English.

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Yeat 9, 10 and 11 meet St Clement Danes Netball!

Our Year 9, 10 and 11 Netball teams played St Clement Danes on Tuesday 22md October. St Clement Danes are always tough competition for St Joan of Arc, however this year the games were extremenly close with St Joan of Arc playing some of their best Netball.

Year 11 were using this game as their GCSE Netball assessment performance and really raised the bar to show off how well they can play. St Clement Danes unfortunately took the lead towards the end with the game resulting 25-17 but the girls should be very proud of their performance and keeping up with play throughout the game.

Year 10 had a fantastic game. Again, some of these girls are taking GCSE PE, with Netball being one of their strongest sports and they proved how well they can perform in this game. The game ended 18-15 to St. Clement Danes, so close and again a very powerful performance from a very strong St Joan of Arc team.

The year 9 game was the closest game throughout the 40 minutes. Our year 9’s have had a slight change in players this year and it proves to be working going by their results so far. Very strong, acurate play by all players on the team with a score of 21-18 to St. Clement Danes who just took the lead in the last quarter.

The Girls PE Department are very proud of how strong Netball is this year and a big well done goes out to all girls this year!! 🙂

Year 8 Art Club

Year 8 Art Club started this week with pumpkin carving.

If you would like to come to Art club please sign up with Mrs Henderson.

We meet on Tuesday lunchtimes.

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