2017 the PTA funded the wonderful new French resource Rigolo. The old resources were very dated, and these modern, interactive resources give children the best opportunity to hone their skills before secondary school.

Each unit of learning begins with a story in French about a dragon called Bof. He gets up to all sorts of adventures as the story goes on, introducing new French words and phrases as he goes. The words and phrases that the children learn from Bof are relevant and would be helpful in any French speaking nation across the world. In my previous school, the children in Year 5 were able to produce a page of writing to describe themselves using this resource as a prompt, and I am hoping we will move towards that at Cam Hopton.

In the future, we will be looking at pairing Cam Hopton with a French speaking school, so that we can use our new skills, and learn a little more about the language and the people of France - watch this space!