A celebration of Poetry!

8 November 2017News, Uncategorized

Poésie en Fête part 2!

Congratulations to all our Primary International Stream students who took part in the French Speech Competition.

Saturday 18 November, a group of Year 6 students, Les héroines, won the first place in the chorale contest, performing a poem by Paul Fort “Le Bonheur est dans le pré.”

We also had many participants for the prose reading contest with great performances and winners:

  • Yr 6 Girls: 1st Katreesa Lam
  • Yr 6 Boys: 2nd Advik Sharma
  • Yr 5 Girls: 1st Raquel Abdallah; 2nd Bianca Rowley
  • Yr 3 Girls: 1st Ria Jain; 2nd Vivienne Abdallah; 3rd Jacqueline Li

Poésie en Fête part 1!

On Saturday 4 November, 35 students from Year 3 to Year 6 participated in the Solo Poetry contest at the French Speech Competition, organized by AFLE. They learnt a poem in French and performed in public in front of students from different schools, parents and a jury. Congratulations to all of them for their brilliant performances and to the 18 FIS International Stream Primary students who got a spot on the podium!

First place for 4 students in Y3 and Y5: Margaret, Ria, Sarah and Dylan!

  • Yr 3 Text A: 1st Margaret Lam; 2nd Karina Taylor
  • Yr 3 Text B: 1st Ria Jain; 2nd Jacqueline Li; 3rd Elena Kuna
  • Yr 4: 3rd Angelina Chu
  • Yr 4 Francophone: 2nd Nina Martin and Quentin Kai; 3rd Sophie Mo
  • Yr 5 Text A: 1st Dylan Deegan; 2nd Karina Farquhar
  • Yr 5 Text B: 1st Sarah Hussain; 2nd Bianca Rowley
  • Yr 5 / Yr 6 Francophones: 2nd Katreesa Lam; 3rd Youssef Azzouz, Josephine Garnier and Marguerite Frouin
  • Yr 6 Boys: 2nd Leon Sikora

More information about the competition here

Next contest will be on 18 November at the Jardine’s Lookout campus for Chorale and solo prose reading!

Good Luck!

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