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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!

Y9 French Exchange 2007

  • orhhorhheeehhoorrr!

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!

Y9 French Exchange 2008

  • Trémosports 2008

Games

March 19, 2008

Destination Death!!!

Year 10 and 11 students of both French and German have been "dicing with death" in the BBC Bitesize online role-playing game "DESTINATION DEATH".

In this exciting and slightly macabre scenario, you are alone in a deserted airport, looking for clues as to the whereabouts of your sister, piecing together clues and gathering useful items to assist you in your progress.

The multiple-choice format of the game means that, although most of the answers are fairly obvious, the player is also presented with other useful GCSE-level vocabulary (such as "mon hamster s'appelle Fuego"!!!).

I won't give the ending away...but you might want to pack a nice sharp stake and some extra-strong garlic!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/games/destination/flash/western/index.shtml

Posted by Alex Bellars on March 19, 2008 at 04:48 PM in Games | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

March 03, 2008

Monday afternoon

my first entry from actually IN SCHOOL- up to now have all been from home...

Spent last 40 minutes of Y10's German lesson navigating our way around a very creepy, Sin City-inspired airport, on BBC Bitesize's "Destination Death". The clever thing is, the wrong answers are in fact the things that stick in your head!

Try it out: copy this into your browser window...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/games/destination/flash/western/index.shtml

Posted by Alex Bellars on March 03, 2008 at 05:47 PM in Games | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)