Bastille Day

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Bastille Day

• How to organise a whole school cross-curricular
• day of activities

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Whole School Activities

• Mufti anything red, white or blue or a French
  theme striped tops and berets
• Bring in anything French or French packaging they
  may have at home for display
• Face painting red, white and blue stripes or a
  small Tricolore on the cheek

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Whole School Activitiescontinued

• French-themed school lunch available (talk nicely
  to the cook) and a menu in French
• Bon Appetit sign made for the hatch
• Alternatively a French picnic for all with
  croissants, baguettes, cheese, pate etc., pain au
  chocolat

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KS1 Activities

• Make passports
• Make boat or plane (rearrange chairs to form rows
  in a plane) or use large boxes to make a boat and
  travel to France
• Make and colour French flags
• Learn a simple French song
• Draw firework pictures

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KS1 Activitiescontinued

• Listen to La Marseillaise
• Learn that it is the French national anthem
• Learn the first two lines and march about waving
  their Tricolores!!
• Play a version of Pin the Tail on the Donkey
  where children have to pin the Eiffel Tower in
  Paris in a map of France

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KS2 ActivitiesHistory

• Look at French revolutionary history (what
  happened at the Bastille, the executions of the
  King and Queen, the guillotine, the start of the
  First Republic)
• Produce a timeline of the events of the
  Revolution

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KS2 ActivitiesGeography

• Where is Marseilles?
• Place important places in the Revolution on a map
  of Paris La Bastille, Versailles, Place de al
  Concorde
• Produce a timeline of the events of the
  Revolution

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KS2 ActivitiesLanguage and Cultural

• Listen to and learn part of La Marseillaise (why
  is it called La Marseillaise?)
• Work out the date of Bastille Day in French
• How is Bastille Day celebrated in France (perhaps
  look at Paris live webcam)

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KS2 ActivitiesDance or Games

• Play some typical French games (Un, Deux, Trois
  Soleil)
• Develop dance steps for Jean Petit qui danse
  (Take 10) or use ideas given

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Useful websites and resources

• www.fete-enfants.com
• www.EnchantedLearning.com
• www.primarylanguages.org.uk
• www.paris-live.com (Paris webcam)
• www.marseillaise.org (lyrics for La Marseillaise
  in English and French)
• Festivals of the World France (ISBN
  0-7496-6770-2 (available from Little Linguists))