Welcome to Day One in Jack n’Jill’s language camp in Chelles, France! We are so excited that you are here and we are so excited to be here, from all over the world!
Your international teachers are jumping with joy and excitement for the first day of camp!BACK ROW LEFT TO RIGHT: Roger – Group 11, Bahamas. Matthew – Group 10, Scotland. Rico – Group 5, New York, USA. Mbali – Group 7, South Africa. Rey – Group 9, Canada. Scott – Group 4, Canada. FRONT ROW LEFT TO RIGHT: Fredsal – Group 8, USA. Oona – Group 2, Ireland. Laura – Group 1. Mrs. Caulkin – Director, England. Bridget – Group 6, New York, USA. Elodie – Camp Manager and Photographer, England. Georgia – Group 3, England.Mrs. Caulkin introducing the teachers while students are listening and eager to begin learning!Teachers being introduced by Mrs. Caulkin.Scott and his Group 4 playing Ticket to Ride, a game that involves taking a trip through North America and the United Kingdom. Introduced is new vocabulary such as travel-related verbs, American states, parts of the United Kingdom and more.Some blue Beavers making name tags and making new friends to start off day one!Kids skipping rope! Learning new words such as counting and numbers, jump, skipping rope, all while having a great time outside in the sun.Playing RISK! This is Matthew’s group, Group 10. RISK is a complex game that involves strategy, continents and countries in English, and a little competition! Beavers in blue vs. the Otters in red.Teacher Bridget, from the United States and her group playing a game together and being goofy. (Group 6) They are playing Ticket to Ride, a game that involves taking a trip through North America and the United Kingdom. Introduced is new vocabulary such as travel-related verbs, American states, parts of the United Kingdom and more.Students laughing with their teacher Mbali. (Group 7) The students are learning to play a new game, with all of the instructions in English to expand their vocabulary skills.Beavers and Otters throwing up « peace signs » and having fun in Rey’s group, Group 9. They are playing the game Ticket to Ride in English.Group 3 learning the song We Are the Champions with their teacher Georgia from the United Kingdom. We Are the Champions is filled with present perfect grammar such as, « I’ve Paid My Dues… » present perfect doesn’t occur in the French language, so this is great practice. They sure do look like champions in this photo!Oona, from Ireland, teaching her group (Group 2) the ways of skipping rope!Wonderful teacher Laura is all smiles after a great first day of camp!
As on each camp, the students are divided into two teams : Otters who wear a red T-shirt and the Beavers, who wear a blue T-shirt. The aim of this is to encourage inclusiveness, to encourage greater effort through a system of rewards in points, and to create emulation between the younger students and the older students. It also enables all the students to shine as they receive points for many things, not just speaking English. Effort is rewarded and is more important than the result.
The result at the end of today’s camp is as above.
Well done the Otters on a great start but this is just the first day !
N’oubliez pas que vendredi c’est Carnaval – tous déguisés sur le thème du carnaval pour une journée forte en émotions !
Tournoi finale de Rounders,
le spectacle où les lycéens vont faire le représentation qu’ils ont travaillé toute la semaine en atelier théâtre avec une comédienne professionnelle,
les collégiens vont vous montrer leurs dance et chansons
la meilleure choréographie en skipping, et enfin
la remise du Trophée pour l’équipe gagnante.
On clôture le stage avec un goûter. Il y a 10 points à la clé pour chaque contribution fait-maison, 5 pour une contribution achetée,
