A GLIMPSE INTO ENGLISH
The International French School of Sydney
Nicky’s CM2 Legends
CM2: Myths are
brewing
1
As part of the CM2 study
of myths and legends
Nicky’s students wrote stories about an enchanted
book. Here are some story
excerpts:
CM1: Adventures
1
Joseph De Sousa
Volume 1, Issue 6
June 20th
Inside this issue:
GS: Witches!
CM2: Writing Challenge
2
CE2: Haikus
2
CE1: Fractured Fairy- 3
tales
GS: Who am I?
CP: Pirate Parrots
3
Drama Toolbox:
Brought to you by
the Read-a-thon
4-5
CM2: picture books 6
The reason
that Mom and Dad did not
read the book was that
they were too scared. I
reminded myself that they
had told me the book was
cursed. I didn’t believe it.
6
Suddenly, my
6.30pm. He knew that Ally
Jones was eating her dinner.
7pm. She was starting to feel
book, the book that was going
to put her to sleep.
CM1:
Emilie’s “S”
project on
San
Fransisco
During our unit on Adventure stories Year 4
have been working on a
novel study of C.S Lewis’
classic story of ‘Narnia:
The Lion, the Witch and
the Wardrobe’. They
have identified elements
and language structures
of fantasy narratives and
have learnt to enrich
their writing by adding
description. The children have also focused
their efforts on writing
effective chapter summaries.
swiftly. I called for Mom
 Year 1 HSIE Topic:
“Pirates”
through my room. I fell to
 Year 5 HSIE Topic:
“Myths and Legends”
and stared at the clock :
utes had already passed,
her place. The voice called
 Year 4 HSIE Topic:
“Adventure Stories”
tired and was grabbing the
his library, his giant library,
CM1 with Miss Charisse
Block 5:
 Year 3 HSIE Topic:
“Natural Disasters”
was going to happen. He sat in
torch turned off. 30 min-
and something replied in
 Year 2 HSIE Topic:
“Fairy Tales”
Mr. Linden knew what
So, this
night I decided to read
the book for answers.
and the doors closed
CP: Thar she blows!
tions had killed people.
my name while it echoed
my knees; spiky vines came
out of my eyes. I was completely blind.
Eloisa Leboulanger
She was going
to read this book that for
generations and genera-
As Lucy walks on, she still
cannot find the back of the
wardrobe. She finds a lamp
post among some trees.
Startled, Lucy meets a faun
named Mr Tumnus. Lucy
follows him home to his
cave. But, does she know his
intentions? Tumnus has tea
with Lucy and tells her stories of Narnia. He then
tries to lull her to sleep in
order to hand her over to
the White Witch.
By Maxime Arandt
Page 2
A Glimpse Into English
CE2 Haikus
CE2s have been studying
natural disasters. They’ve
taken their new knowledge
and applied it to the beautiful and simple style of Japanese poetry: the haiku.
CM2 Writing Challenge
The black lake
it’s a lake
hidden in gloom
it shimmers
Autumn
under the pale moon.
The wind is blowing in my it’s unknown.
face,
it’s peril
Through the woods and in to any living creature
Volcano
the city,
who dares to stampede
The colourful trees dance
on it’s territory.
Lava and black rocks.
with grace.
only the bright sunlight
Well done to the entrants,
Dangerous magma destroys.
can waken it
and good luck!
It’s not summer what a pity,
A killing machine
from the mysterious curse
The days are shorter,
that so consumes it,
Gum Tree
By Lucas
The waves are rising,
only the bright sunlight,
I’m not in the water.
that it never gets.
I glance over the canteen, I
stare over the school and
It laps up
Now I’m painting,
there I gaze a fabulous
Drought
on the damp sand
At my own pace,
statue with its majestic
beside it
The hills,
branches.
Yellow spikes, bare trees
A red, orange and yellow
like dead sea creatures
I touch the sweet, shiny
place.
finally reaching the shore.
Blue disappears on the
bark.
The disturbing atmosphere
earth
I can almost taste the eucathat hovers over it
When is it stopping?
lyptus.
is most easily seen
By Zazou Mackenzie
Suzanne Its leaves rustle with the soft
by the bare human eye
wind.
Only the most unearthly
The pure nature of that fabucreatures
lous giant.
live in it’s murky depths.
Tornado!
Ines Lelong
the wind creates monsterly ripples
in the mud inundated water.
Tornadoes are grey
Trembling and blowing
Imogen cosby
Powerful and strong
Lilian
Once again the Sydney
Youth Writing Competition
has come to a close and a few
fantastic poems were entered
in CM2. The task was to use
the words wind, keep or
light.
GS Who AmI?
Read these poems. Can you figure out who they are? Well done GS!
Floods
Water and landslides.
The rain is coming quickly.
Houses are destroyed.
Ambre
My hair is long and brown.
My eyes are brown.
My favourite food is apple.
My favourite activity is cooking.
My initials are SA.
Tornado
Blue flying houses.
Death in tornadoes danger.
Amazing humans.
My hair is short black.
My eyes are brown.
My favourite food is sausage.
My favourite activity is cooking.
Tomas
My initials are FK.
Volume 1, Issue 6
Page 3
CE1 Fractured Fairytales
CE1s in Prue’s class have
been writing their own twists
on classic fairytales. Here is
one excerpt:
CE1 with Miss Charisse
Cornchef the Troll
let me come in.”
“Not by the fur on my thick, thick Once upon a time there was a troll
named Cornchef. He was an Old
skin.”
Troll, and he was a bad troll. He
“Then I’ll stamp and stamp and lived in a village called Troll Chef
The Three Wombats and
I’ll jump right in.”
Village. Today, he is so angry. He in
the Big, Bad Kangaroo
punching trolls and his best friend.
The big, bad kangaroo
by Lucille Giraud
So the police trolls came a took him
stamped and stamped and
to the troll prison. He stayed there
One day the three little wom- jumped right in. He grabbed
for 10 days and after that he was so
bats’ mum was eaten by a
the wombat with his big, bad nice to the trolls. So he got new
dingo. The dad didn’t have
claws to give to his friend, the friends.
enough money to look after
dingo.
Emmanuel
all of the children so he said,
“You must all go and build
Buttcheek
your own houses, but beware
Once upon a time there was a
of the big, bad kangaroo.
troll called Buttcheek. He lived
So they all went off to build in a country called Canada. He
was very good. He did karate.
their own houses.
One day he did some karate on
The first little wombat, who
people. And
was called Steven, didn’t dig
then he got a
his hole deep enough so the
friend.
big kangaroo came along.
The End.
“Little wombat, little wombat
In HSIE and English, Year 2
has been busy learning
about different types of pets
and animals. They have
learnt how to distinguish the
difference between wild animals and domestic pets as
well as identifying Australian
native animals.
Year 2 worked hard on gathering facts about Lions and
Tigers and discussed the
differences and similarities
between them.
The children then chose
their favourite Australian
native animal to research
and have written some insightful information reports.
Remi
CP Pirate Parrots
Witches in GS
As part of our unit study on Pirates, Adriane’s
CPs have been learning how to describe objects
through their writing. Here are some of the parrots that you could find on a captain’s shoulder.
The GS students have been learning
all about Fantasy creatures this term
and have created and described their
own witches!
My name is Andrea.
I am a parrot.
I like adventures.
I like flowers.
I am a pirate.
My witch is kind.
My witch is green and silly.
My witch is happy.
My witch is cranky.
My witch is sneaky and mean.
My name is Max.
I am a parrot.
I like books.
I like ice cream.
I am a pirate.
My witch is beautiful.
My name is Roksy.
My witch is bad.
I am a parrot.
I like chocolate.
I like coca-cola.
I am a pirate.
Page 4
Newsletter Title
Drama Toolbox brought to you by the Read-a-Thon
At the beginning of the school
year, 91 students participated in
the first annual Read-a-thon reading 165,899 minutes and raising
$6,184.00. Half of the proceeds
raised went to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation which provides
literacy support for Indigenous
communities. The other half went
to the English department. With
this money, we decided to celebrate the students’ efforts and had
a special event. We organized a
drama incursions for CP to CM2
with Drama Toolbox. A wonderful presenter named Melinda
came to the school over a period
of three days and held workshops
with all the students.
CP experienced the wild world of
minibeasts. CE retold the Aboriginal tale of Tiddalick the
Frog, and CM acted out
different sustainability dilemmas that we face today.
The students truly enjoyed
themselves and the teachers were blown away with
the quality of the presenter and of
the drama experience.
Here are some photos of the wonderful event.
Hopefully next year we can repeat
this unforgettable experience!
Volume 1, Issue 6
Page 5
CM Picture books
Page 6
The CM2 in Adriane’s class have
taken their creative writing stories
to the next level: writing and illustrating a picture book. After reading and discussing popular children’s picture books the students
created their own storylines and
set off. The result is truly fantastic
and the CPs were entranced as
the CMs read to them.
Can You Find Me?
By Arnaud
The Farmhouse
Dairy by Lexine
The Big Grey
Shark by
Kyle
We Are Best
Friends by Geeta
Stormy and Bullet
by Chloe
CP Thar She Blows!
The Dragon by
Saffia
The CP students in Kerry’s class have been writing small pirate adventures, accompanied by some
very detailed illustrations!
The Pirate Ship
By Louise Miniconi
One day there was a pirate ship sailing
to sea and on the pirate ship they
made somebody walk the plank into
the water. He fell in the water and
they sailed on until it was night.
The Pirate Ship
By Margaux Shields
There was a pirate ship. Everyone loved the
pirate ship. One pirate didn’t like the pirate
ship. He was mean. He wanted to have the
pirate ship. But one day the mean pirates
were at sea. They were sinking and they
died. And the other ones lived happily ever
after
The Rich Pirates
By Julien Siu
Once upon a time there were two rich
pirates and their crew was tired but
they were happy. One day they found
a treasure map! They sailed and sailed
and they got there. They landed on the coast and finally
they found X marks the spot. They dug and dug and finally
they hit something! Finally, they found the treasure!
Treasure Island
By Finlay Rebut
Once upon a time there was an island. There was lots of
treasure and then there was a pirate ship that was big. The
pirate ship was sinking, but the pirates finally found the
treasure.