French News

Bonjour to everyone, are you enjoying the change from l'hiver (winter) to le printemps (spring)?

Year 4 have been busy examining French professions as part of their How We Organise Ourselves unit and last week we took an in-depth look into an industry that employs many, many people in France: le fromage – cheese! The students completed an online research session, pairing up to find out about a range of milk, sheep and goat cheeses that are popular in France. They discovered that some have been around since the time of the Romans, while others are matured for months in caves!

Then the piece de resistance… a cheese tasting ensued! Now I don't know about you, but I am not much of a fan of the 'king of cheeses', old Roquefort, but it was part of the tasting and we all had to have an eye-watering taste to discuss the flavours. The boys had to say how each of the five sample cheese looked, smelt and, of course, tasted, and then score it from one (awful) to five (yummy!). Not surprisingly, the washed-rind, stinky reblochon had a few boys leaping for their water bottles post mouthful! They are now in the process of composing an 'ode to le fromage' to let us know what they thought. Great work boys!

   

Madame Carolyn Vinton
French Specialist