Exploring French through movement & theatre - Term 2-4 2022

The French drama class for French Learners is a new class. After the French Holiday Program, many kids & parents asked for more ;-)
We heard you, we listened. Here we are.

Our goal for the class is the same as for the Holiday program, it is to be a spark, we won't TEACH French. We want to give the children a good taste of our language and culture. We want them to love French because it's so much easier to learn something you like, isn't it? But it isn't just fun and games, the goal is to engrave the vocabulary in their body language which will act eventually as a full-time immersion.

Each activity or game is explained in English but played in French. There are so many theatre activities which can be understood only with observation, body movement, repetition etc...
Every class, the children will train their body and prepare their mind. The training will be in 3 parts:

• The circle: We warm up the body. We warm up the voice, learning breathing exercises, voice projection, French tong-twister... We exercise the concentration with different group games.
• The "walking": This part uses the space and our place in it. We play with rhythms, weights, shapes, distances, imagination, we freeze, we run, we slow down, we grow... in French.
• The impro : Let's play...

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What really matters to us is to get the kids to have fun in French, it is to make them discover a part of the French culture, it is to make them feel the French language, its rhythm and particularity, it is to give them the tools to work in groups, to help them develop their confidence, to dare to express themselves in public even if for the moment it is only one word ... 

Starting term 2

• From 6 to 10yo
• Wed 4:00pm to 5:30pm
• ​Mount Hawthorn Lesser Hall

​Fees: $250 per term + $50 annual admin fee., (exc.GST) 10%off for kids participating in French Holiday Prg -

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