Following a successful bid by our MFL ambassadors, Y8 delivered a French cooking class for some of our KS2 pupils.  Demonstrations were given using only the target language and some delightful cupcakes with a continental twist were cooked up.

“I learnt the name of a lot of new ingredients and as we have been doing about pets in French class, I decorated one of my cakes with ‘un chien’.”  Lewis, 6L

“When we did the decorating, we had to ask for the icing colours in French.  Bleu, blanc and rouge were used by everybody.” Caleb, 6M

“The Y8 chefs were not allowed to speak any English and I did my best to only speak French too.  I enjoyed telling off the chefs if they weren’t using ‘français’.” Theo, 6I

“It was a great event and a chance for us to use our language skills in a new context.  Although we had a few technical hitches like eggs being dropped and losing the cup cake cases, I was glad to get the chance to be involved in something a bit different.” Ben, 8J

“There was definitely a lot of hard work and dedication involved, writing and learning the recipe, but everyone had a great day.”  Jack, 8M

Thanks to our Year 8s for leading the event and to Europe Direct Durham for the funding.  More events to celebrate languages, both European and farther afield, will be taking place this week so keep posted for more details.