Le Petit Club Francais

School Link
French Links between Schools in Nord Pas de Calais and Kent Our new venture has begun where we try to link schools from Nord Pas de Calais with Primary schools in the North of Kent. After just a few months I have managed to match around twelve schools together – a really good achievement. This 'school' twinning is wonderful in that it puts into action their new skills and gives a huge foundation to the knowledge of the children. They have hopefully been taught from an early age and putting into practice this knowledge acts to enforce it and highlight it in real life, showing first hand the benefits and fun of having two languages. School linking leads to the following: Penpals Once the schools have been put in contact with each other and are 'linked' then the children are encouraged to write to each other - either in their native tongue or their newly acquired skill. Either way the children can only benefit from writing in another language or trying to understand a letter written in French. We have already been visited by one of our 'penpal' schools, and in turn we visited them in Douai for an exciting field day at the farm. I have a centre ready to welcome our French children and I hope that the word will get around quickly to start this exciting new project. I hope that you will promote this idea to your child's 'pen pal' school. Please contact me if you would like to discuss any point of this exciting project with me.

Student Swaps Another phase of this program is to arrange student swaps during term times, where a French and English student swap with each other and spend time in their respective schools. School Link Program I have more French schools wanting to link up. If you are a primary school with KS2 classes wanting to write to a school in France with pupils of the same age group then please contact me. Please note: - There will be a small administration fee - Support in writing to the children is provided - Ideas on what to write can be suggested - Trips can be organised

School Trips The second phase of this program has been to get the children to meet up and spend time visiting places in the UK, playing sports and learning our respective languages as well as visiting our schools - a great fun way to encourage their knowledge. Please click on the following links to see pictures from trips which have already taken place: Hartley and Shears Green Pen Pal Visit Hartley and Douai Pen Pal Visit Please see the following Testimonial Page to see what our students and parents thought about their Pen Pal Visit experience.

Other initiatives that we are involved in are:
	Tip Top Connexion is a French initiative with similar to aims as our own. Over the years we have established a good relationship with them and share the common goal of helping children learn a valuable second language at an early age. Follow the link on the flag to visit their website.
This fantastic centre is soley for children, All the activities are within walking distance, the centre is right by the beach is completly safe and loads and loads of activities are offered such as local visits of cultural and educational interest, horse riding, biking, sand art, kite making, tree walking and wire sliding,swimming, ball games, evening activities as well as a complete emerssion in the French language for 5 days. There would also be groups of French children staying there of the same age group. The cost is no more then 5 days spent in a child centre in the UK.