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Work experience 2008 French exchange students French Club with Carole Pancake tasting Festin France 07
French Rugby Players Pay A Visit To Shimna
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French Master class Year 8 French Breakfast 2008
French Politics Presentation
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French Film Night
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Mock European Commission at Stormont
Mark O'Reilly, Tanya Murray, Rachel Cleary and Stephen Lowry chaired the meeting of the Mock European Commission at Stormont in October. Shimna has previously taken part in the Commission in the role of Germany in 2005, Leichtenstein in 2006 and took on the ultimate challenge of the chair this year. A huge amount of research and effort went into the preparation, and our students bought with them a dose of confidence, preparation and chutzpah to carry them through. Word has it our students did a great job, with the debates starting slowly, and building up to really challenging argument. Very well done to all, including Janet Moffett and Clare Murphy who supported our students in taking on the role.
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Quotations from French students
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Nina Graham (Year 10, Age 13- did French GCSE a year early) “I did my French GCSE 2 years early. I am glad I did it as I got a grade ‘A’.I really enjoyed French and speaking in a different language.I sometimes speak French at home and learning French at Shimna has meant I can say more to my family and helps me whenever I visit France and see my friends there.”
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Laura Salamin (Age 14, Year 11- Swiss/French) “I did my GCSE French a year early and achieved a grade ‘A’. I really enjoyed learning French. It is my first language and Shimna College has given me the opportunity to increase my knowledge of written French and I now feel I can read books in French and write well to my family in French.”
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Karl Graham (Year 14) “I feel that studying French at Shimna helped me to achieve full marks in my English Literature AS course, as learning the fundamentals of another language helped me appreciate my own language, as well as the culture and heritage behind it. Even more so, when one considers the fact that almost half of all English words come from French or have a French cognate.”
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Students Success
Languages Success at Shimna Integrated College
Shimna Integrated College celebrated the first year as a Specialist School with excellent results from students who have taken the opportunity to study additional courses in French.
Max Graham led with an excellent grade in AS French while he was still in year 11; Perrine Bonnargent achieved grade A in French while still in year 10; Tanya Murray, Niamh Lindsay and Helen Crane hit A*s in French which they studied as an additional subject to their full quota of GCSEs.
