Beck Middle School To Participate In French Fun Day Thursday

MOORESTOWN, NJ — A group of students from Beck Middle School in Cherry Hill will participate in a “French Fun Day” at Moorestown Friends School on Thursday, April 19 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Moorestown Friends School announced.

Students from Christ the King School in Haddonfield, and Haddonfield Friends School will also attend. All sixth grade students at Moorestown Friends School, as well as seventh and eighth grade French students, will participate.

The Moorestown Friends School World Languages and French Department will host the day to promote French language and culture among all middle school students.

The day will begin with an Afro-Haitian dance performance by CUMBE African Diaspora Dance troupe from Brooklyn, NY. Following the performance, students will have the opportunity to participate in 60-minute dance workshops with the troupe members.

Students will then rotate through workshops facilitated by Moorestown Friends School Upper School French students. These are high school students, in 9th through 12th grades.

Examples of workshops include: a virtual reality tour of France with Google Glasses, a Tour de France relay race, student-generated video games about castle life in medieval France, and an art workshop where students will re-create Impressionist paintings.

The Moorestown Friends School French program uses Immersion Methodology from grades 6-12. Teachers and students conduct and participate in class entirely in French.

The World Languages program offers a sequence of courses in French, Spanish, and Chinese. After an introduction to all three languages in sixth grade, Moorestown Friends School students begin formal study of a chosen language in seventh grade and continue the sequence through at least the third year level in the Upper School.

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