1. French Café Event Preston Street Primary Edinburgh May 2008 Lorna Macdonald DHT Aims: To trial ML outcome: LAN253 MB (2nd level) To create a real context for P6 pupils to purposefully use French To involve the community in the life and learning within school To raise money for Link School in Ghana

3. Empowerment - the pupils: Led event from planning stage; had real say Invited guests from local community; relevant Made décor; personalized Met guests at front door; social skills Entertained guests; cross curricular, fun

5. Pupil Feedback 1. Main thing I learned- more French from the guests to work together as a team people liked my music be confident talk to adults (in French) working without getting stressed

7. Pupil Feedback 2. Thing I liked most: being a waitress/ waiter/ my role the decorated hall eating croissants/ the food/ the drinks people that were there/ guests were kind playing music speaking to adults in French atmosphere

9. Links and contacts from event: Transition - HS, DVD Local businesses Local community groups Visits from community member - singing Money for charity

11. Evaluations: Successes - Pupil ideas and level of involvement Pupils contacting businesses to invite Icebreakers Clear roles for pupils Scope for personalisation eg music Motivation to use French

13. Evaluation: Areas to develop - Involvement of native speaker/s Use of ICT - pupil work to display at event on screen Sharing with school community before &/ or after event - assembly presentation/s German market context this year - involving visiting specialist

15. Connections to the Big Ideas Diversity - understanding and valuing cultural and social diversity Creativity - thinking beyond the obvious & making connections Citizenship - understand and respect differences Enterprise - learning within real context and with community partners –responsibility for learning; using initiative –adopting different roles within a team