Bonjour à vous,
Wednesday morning saw our students spending the morning in collège. This is a really eye-opening experience for our Sheldon students and one which we hope will stick with them for a long time to come. The school had gone to huge efforts on our behalf and our students felt like rock stars as they were greeted with the Union Jack flying, personalised welcome banners, and the Sheldon fan club below sporting their school jumpers! Who knew the Sheldon uniform could look so à la mode!
We were greeted in usual tradition with a welcome from the Head, le Principal du Collège, and a mountain of local brioche. Once stuffed to the brim with their second breakfast, all students took part in 3 lessons ranging from maths ("c'est trop difficile!") and anglais to arts plastiques, musique, and tennis de table. Some took part in fantastic bilingual quizzes and board games whilst others did the 'floss' to African rhythms.
We are always impressed by how our students step up to this challenge, but were particularly proud of the whole cohort this year. This is the first year that all of us, even our youngest Year 8 students, have spent the week en famille. The calm confidence and sheer enthusiasm with which all élèves, French and English, undertook all activities and communicated with each other, was testament to the success of this year's exchange.
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