Blog powered by TypePad
Member since 04/2007

Christmas Markets Trip 2006

  • Ms J & Mr W
    Right after the end of the Christmas Term 2007, an intrepid band of staff, pupils and parents travelled to Köln and Aachen to sample the unique atmosphere of those two cities "Weihnachtsmärkte"...

Christmas Markets Trip 2005

  • Weihnachtsmarkt am Rhein
    The inaugural Ballard German trip to Cologne for a whistle-stop tour of the city's Christmas Markets. Overnight on a coach, a day in Cologne...and then bacl onto the coach to arrive, smelly, exhausted but happy, back at school and full of seasonal cheer!

World War I Battlefields Trip 2007

  • chill out, Mr H!
    Pupils and staff will never forget this emotional four-day trip to Northern France and Belgium.

Les aventures de Frogbert le Croak-Monsieur

  • une belle vue de la mer
    Frogbert's first adventures...but certainly not his last!

Foreign websites

April 20, 2008

French radio on your desktop!

Download nostalgie_gadget.zip

Unzip this file and add Radio Nostalgie to your desktop. This widget allows you to select from a variety of musical genres, with two common denominators - great music, from the 60s to the 90s. Try "Slows de légende" or "Classiques 80s", or be adventurous and keep it on "chansons françaises", and really immerse yourself in French culture!

By the way, the above link will only work with Vista-enabled machines, but if you have a computer running XP or a Mac, you can download a similar widget from www.nostalgie.fr

Have fun - et vive la musique française! ♪♪♪