Nursery, Reception: Trotro

Trotro decides to decorate the Christmas tree all by himself!

Prep 5: La Fête des Rois

Prep 5 celebrated Epiphany in the traditional French style this week with a Galette des Rois. This is a cake eaten in Northern France at this time of year made of pastry baked with a small ceramic figure inside, known as la fève. The traditional filling is frangipane but this year we had a tasty nut-free version filled with compote de pommes. We sang a song called J'aime la Galette which lists the ingredients of the cake and then watched a video of some French children singing it. In 5D, Joshua was lucky enough to find the fève in his slice and was crowned king, whilst in 5M Tallulah was queen for the day.

Bonne année à tous!

Prep 4 - 6: La Fête des Rois

Watch this presentation all about the Fête des Rois. Can you work out the answers to the exercise at the end?

A special song is sung for the occasion. Watch this video to hear the song.

Here are some French children singing the same song:



Now watch this extract from the French news to see one of the last remaining fève factories in France.

Epiphanie : dans les allées d'une fabrique de fèves

And finally, here's a famous French children's story all about a galette!

Prep 5: La Fête des Rois

In their French lesson today, both Prep 5 classes celebrated a belated Epiphany with some delicious galettes des rois very kindly bought in France last night by Mr Brooks. We learnt about the festival, sang the special song (see the post below) and then the youngest member of each class chose the first slice of galette. Ellie and Georgie were the lucky winners of the fève and each chose a friend to share their royal status for the day!