Ice skating... more fun!!!

Ice-skating

First try this week with another class at the ice rink of Bordeaux...
We had a great experience at the ice rink this week. We were a group of 31 children (9 from our special class and 22 from the 1st and 2nd elementary class). We were both beginners in this activity... Even the teachers!!!
We fell down on the ice quite a lot of time but we helped each other and it was a nice time of sharing competences...
Every body are looking forward to going back to the ice skating next week and have some more fun!

greetings from France!

Souvenirs de Bordeaux

Impressions of the project meeting in Bordeaux
Merci beaucoup de Rolandsmauer, we will be back! ;-))

Horse riding: more!

As we said we found difficulties to give directions to our horses but with our teacher, Thomas, we learned some tips. And we got some improvement!
Look at the pictures!

One time, the weather was so good so that we go outside with our horses!

Horse riding: a great experience!

In January, we started horse riding. Each week we go to the stables and start to be good riders!

The time we spend with the horses are full of emotions.

We would like to share the improvement we've made since January!

Our first experience was a good one but some of us were a bit scared with those big animals. It was difficult to remain next to them.

Then we learnt how to prepare our horses: a lot of work for us! We needed to be supported by the adults!

And finally almost every of us tried to ride them... Difficult for the first time. But we enjoyed it.

We found difficult to give direction to the horses... without the help of the adults, the horses went to where they wanted to go!

Favorite sports from the French pupils

Favorite sports from the French pupils

We are not very good in drawing, speaking... So we decided to collect some pictures from the sports we like. It was difficult to find any sports at the beginning, but then we found that we enjoy watching football games on the TV, playing tennis, we enjoyed running with others pupils from the school in October... And most of all we really enjoy our horse riding lessons every thursday at school!

So, here a picture of our work:

Saint Gabriel - Bordeaux in France

Saint Gabriel in Bordeaux

We are a mainstream primary school with almost 500 pupils from the age of 3 to 10 years old.

The school is in the city center of Bordeaux, South-West of France.

There is a specialized class called "CLIS Capucine" with 6 pupils.

There is in the school building a gymnasium that we used weekly to practice any kind of motricity, play games with balls, ...

Pupils really enjoy playing with balls even if sometimes it's difficult to play all together!

In January, every thursday, we'll go for horseriding. We are very excited even if we are a little afraid to get close to those big animals.

In october, to celebrate the start of the year at school, all the people from Saint Gabriel: teachers, headmaster, parents and pupils met in a public park for a cross running. 

It's difficult to run 500 meters with no stops... So we trained with older pupils who were volunteers and during the event, they helped us by running with us.

It was a nice sporting moment of sharing! And we did very well, so the headmaster gave us a special diploma. We were very proud.