Projects

Progress reports 2002 - 2003

Woodbridge High School/ Le Collège Pablo Néruda

Staff

Caroline Kücük / Jean-Michel Grillon

Report on pen pal link with French school

Last year one of our French teachers established a pen-pal link with a school in the north of France (Le collège Pablo Néruda in Wattrelos). The students from both schools wrote to one another in French and English. This proved to be very successful.

This year the project has continued with the same school but with a different group of students. Our students are responding positively. They write to their pen-pal every half term, preparing responses in class as well as producing some information on “our town” or “our family”. A large classroom display has been made, with letters written by the French students as well as a map and information about where they live.

The school in France is also our exchange school, so we have made direct links through visits. Our students were able to make contact with their exchange partners before going to France, which was of great mutual benefit.

We planned to extend this project as an e-mail link and have carried out preparatory work:. We found a safe website that could be used (www.epals.com) and created e-mail addresses for our students. We then sent these to our partner school. Unfortunately they do not have sufficient computers to enable e-mailing with a whole class and they have restricted internet access. We hope to be able to resolve these problems in order to extend and enrich the project.

Appendix: letters (Word)

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