We had a presentation of quite a few Scratch projects today. The students explained their objectives, and described their coding. Check out Stefan’s ticket, to see (and maybe play) all the projects for yourself!
Author Archives: Bjørn Gabrielsen
No screen-SFO
For a month now, we have had no screens during SFO in the mornings. And with the advent of real summer temperatures lately, no screens during SFO in the afternoons either. This has partly been to raise awareness about screen use for our “Internet topic week”. The no-screens policy has been almost astonishingly easy to …
Some small changes
Some parents have commented on how their children have become decidedly one-sided in their academic pursuits. Concentrating on one subject at a time is not problematic in itself. And as many parents discovered during lockdown, alternating constantly between subjects can actually be seriously inefficient. But there’s a limit to everything. We previously had STEM-subjects upstairs …
Towards normalcy
Ever since corona, we’ve had the morning meetings in the gym. This has been decidedly sub-optimal. The acoustics there are horrendous, and many kids have had to start the réunion du matin in a state of exalted, but abruptly interrupted horseplay. But now we’re back in the kindergarten, in the sweet, calm atmosphere many parents …
All aboard
Today, we could finally hold a morning assembly with both the kindergarten and the school kids at the same time. Age integration is an important pillar of L’école franco-danoise. Smaller children get approachable role models, larger kids get experience in helping smaller ones and the chance to demonstrate competence and responsibility.
Maths lecture
Mathematician, tree climber and friend of EFD Adam dropped by to hold a maths lecture about traffic. In French. Not everyone who attended was mathy or francophone. But even some kids outside of the presumed target demographic could give a decent outline afterwards. Just paying attention even while not understanding everything is a skill, too.
Adding some colour
A couple of years of kids’ play, scotch tape and blu-tack ages a wall pretty fast. We touched up one of the classrooms with some green. We have also created a brand new room for the kids, the “HUM lab”. This was a room with a vague purpose that over time had metamorphosised into a …
Quick fix
A school is like a home, in the sense that stuff adds up and a lot of things that may have had a purpose previously just end up taking a lot of space and getting in the way. Some parents and staff have let themselves loose at the school premises these days. One central goal …
German at the French-Danish school
… described in English. Some of the students at school speak German at home, and one of these sparked an interest in studying the language. There is now a small core progressing very fast, and a larger circle with a more casual interest. In the first group, the tutor is actually younger than her protégées. …
Well yes, but what do they do all day?
A quick guide to the daily schedule at school. Because your kids think this is natural and aren’t going to tell you anything. There will be more in-depth information and discussion about the different points in the schedule later. 09:00 – 09:15 Morning assembly: As you all know, we start our days with a réunion …