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Grays Convent High School |
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) |
Bilingual education
Grays Convent School is a Language College which has started to develop bilingual education in art and in geography. One year 8 class is currently benefiting from bilingual art lessons. Our pupils have studied and reproduced a replica of the Guernica from Picasso. In the first lesson, pupils learnt in French about the historical context in which the Guernica was painted and what the painting represented.
In the following three lessons, pupils drew a section of the painting using warm colours and choosing materials they wished to work with. Pupils then explained in French how they did this in their art books. In year 8 assembly, they presented their work in French, to their peers.
The same year 8 class is learning the geography of France. We focused on the stereotypes of France and then the physical geography of France and its population.
We are currently developing a video conferencing link with a French school which also has a “section bilingue”. Our pupils aim to present to them what they have learnt.
The target language used in class is simple and based on what pupils already know.
The project is particularly successful in art because pupils benefit from a double lesson in art whereas in geography only a single lesson is timetabled.
With this project, pupils benefit from more exposure to French language whilst continuing to improve their skills in art and in geography.
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Sophie Da Silva, Grays Convent High School, Essex, October 2007
