Frohe Weihnachten!

With the festive time fast approaching, Year 7 pupils have been discovering various aspects of German Christmas traditions.

So many of our Christmas traditions come from this country’s shared history with German speaking countries and our Year 7 pupils have been exploring these in their lessons and a House competition.

😇As the Christmas markets already start to fill the town squares in November, preparing for Saint Nicholas’ Day on 6th December, all our Year 7 pupils had the opportunity to handwrite a letter in German to Das Christkind (Christmas Angel) and replies from the small town of Engelskirchen are expected before the end of term. You can explore this tradition further via this link: https://www.deutschepost.de/de/w/weihnachtspost/weihnachtsmann-christkind/engelskirchen.html

🎄In addition to this, there has been a House Competitions to create a traditional German tabletop Advent Wreath. The entries have been on display in the library with the winners announced in the website.

🎵Finally, 7 Franklin have learnt the original German version of the carol Stille Nacht (Silent Night) which was sung at the Carol Service at St Etheldreda’s church on 16th December. A lovely seasonal way to end a busy term!

To all pupils and their families…..Wir wünschen Euch frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr!