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EIFA NEWSLETTER

Term 1bLe mot de la directrice/ A Word From the Head

Chers parentsEn cette fin d’année 2020, je souhaite vous exprimer, au nom de l’ensemble du

personnel de l’EIFA, nos remerciements pour votre soutien et votre collaboration tout

au long de cette période si particulière. Rien ne nous avait préparés à affronter une

pandémie qui nous a isolés pendant de longs mois et qui nous oblige encore à la plus

grande vigilance. Nous mettrons tout en oeuvre pour continuer à offrir à nos élèves un

environnement protégé pour qu’ils continuent à apprendre et à s’épanouir entourés de

leurs camarades

La Newsletter de ce demi-trimestre vous fera revivre la vie de l’établissement, riche de

projets, d’apprentissages nouveaux et de sourires partagés.

Nous vous souhaitons de passer de belles fêtes de fin d’année

Bien cordialement

Madame Zurbach

Dear Parents,As 2020 draws to a close, I would like to thank you on behalf of all of EIFA’s staff for

your support and cooperation throughout this unusual period. Nothing could have

prepared us for a pandemic that would leave us isolated for several long months and

which still requires us to remain vigilant. For many children school remains the only

place where they can enjoy a social life under the watchful eye of their teachers and

other staff who are striving to create a safe space where the children can continue

learning alongside their friends.

This Newsletter for the second half of the term allows us to share some of these

moments – full of learning, school events and shared laughter.

With Season’s Greetings and wishes for a Happy New Year

Kind regards

Madame Zurbach

CM1 / Year 5

Year 5 pupils have been reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. They will be writing about the

chocolate process from tree to bar. Obviously, they needed to research by doing some tasting of different types of

chocolate from 100% pure cocoa solids to vanilla flavoured white chocolate.

Les élèves de CM1 ont créé un mur des compliments pour célébrer

la journée internationale de la tolérance.

Chaque fin de semaine, ils prennent le temps d’écrire un mot gentil

à un des membres de la classe, qu’ils glissent ensuite dans les jolies

enveloppes ci-dessus.

Skye Felson

Dylan Jocky

Oscar Maisant

Dan Susskind

Qaher Nusseibeh

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MS/ ReceptionPendant cette période, les MS ont adoré prendre

part aux différentes activités autour des transports.

Montgolfières, hélicoptères, avions.. Nous avons

failli nous envoler !!

Freya Anderson

Sienna Basilisco

Sophie Bolelaya

Alexandre Fages-Caram

Zane Pappoulas

Armand Fages-Caram

Anita Imberger

Paul-Emile Jalbaud

Noemie Nefussi

Emma Susskind


Les MS ont aussi commencé à

écrire leurs premières phrases.

We enjoyed our outdoor

learning sessions at Regent’s

Park, focused on our transport

topic.

CE2 /Year 4

We have been learning about

Prehistory! Some of our students

brought fossils to share with the class

and we have been making our own

cave paintings to retell prehistoric

tales.

Year 4 have really taken to our

learning surrounding ‘Our Planet’.

We are preparing to engage in a

project with other schools around

the world, creating our own

posters to raise awareness. There

has even been talk of putting into

place a ‘Nature Club’ and some of

our students have designed board

games encouraging discussion

around the theme.

Chloé Fardad

Ethan Nefussi

Scarlett Nguyen-Weller


We have been sharing our

different ways of solving

mathematical problems and going

for maths challenges!

Dans le cadre du cours de questionner

le monde, les élèves de CE2 ont

effectué une recherche sur un pays.

PS/Nursery

We have had a great term and have learnt lots of new skills!

This term we learned about People Who Help Us and looked at how festivals are celebrated around the world

Georgiana Nguyen-Weller

Clovis Claoue De Gohr

Oscar Peter

Olivia Ropers Parramon


The police and road safety!

Firemen rolling out the hoses!

The doctor listening to a

patient’s chest.

We discussed what we are thankful for at Thanksgiving

time.

I can write my name using

movable letters

I know how to hold my pen

I’ve improved my cutting skills!

CM2/Year 6

In Maths, we have been

focussing on problem solving

and reasoning about

perimeter and fractions

through collaborative work.

Waverley Hegland

Noa Elash

Angélique Gravel Kostava

Chloé Sorrentino-Assimon

Victoria Kim Foubert

Iris Maisant


Year 6 have been enjoying a cross-curricular study of the Industrial Revolution and the Victorian Era. They have read and analysed

Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist and are currently reading his famous novella A Christmas Carol, after which they will watch a theatrical

production, live-streamed from the Old Vic theatre.

Lettre à un professeur qui a marqué votre scolarité.

Year 3 had a fantastic time

writing their spelling words into sentences!

Les élèves de CE1 partent à

l’aventure en voyageant avec

Zigomar.

Les CE1 travaillent sur les 7 familles d’aliments.

Arthur Meyer

Nathan Byrne

Gustave Harris

Louise Le Cam

Pol Ropers Parramon

Adele Vaillancourt


CE1 /Year 3

CP/Year 2

On the 16th November, pupils in Year 2 took part in Tolerance Day. The

children created posters conveying how tolerance is demonstrated within

year 2. We play with everyone, help each other and practise sports as a team.

During Road Safety Week, pupils in Year 2 reviewed how to cross the

road safely. They explored road hazards by classifying road situations

into categories which are safe and those that are unsafe.

Eliott Elash

Avesta-Reza Noory

David Suryanarayanan


During outdoor learning, the Y1 children counted more than 35

traffic lights on their short walk between the school and

Crescent Park. They also had to spot the different road signs

and try to understand their meaning.

This half-term, we talked about road safety in Year 1. We had

many discussions about how we can keep safe when walking,

crossing the road and riding our bikes or scooter.

GS/ Year 1

Alix Cohen

Victor Delamare

Penelope Maag-Carteau

Alexandre Gravel Kostava

Marcel Masciaro

Ottilie Nackers-Thomson


The children also learned about Garrett Morgan, the inventor

of the traffic lights. From there came the idea of creating sets

of traffic lights for the school to remind everyone to slow down

and stop when walking around!!

Little EIFAWe had a very busy term at little EIFA. The children learnt all

about road safety and explored their favourite rhymes for

nursery rhyme week.

We have also started

our topic of the

month - winter

festivals.

Arnold Fedun

Celeste Maag-Carteau

Alexander Marshall

Constance Suryanarayanan

Sonnet Eloise Trueman-Rowold

Bodhi Diana

Rose Mehdi Gentet


We loved role

playing at the

nursery rhyme

shop!

Road safety

week

EAL and FLE

Ameen donne quelques

instructions en français à

Ilaria Biancamano. Le

message est passé 5 sur 5.

Nos élèves de FLE en 5ème ont présenté une oeuvre littéraire de leur choix

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Year 7 celebrating their achievements

- first diploma for online language learning

The Arts (Art & Drama) Art



Check No Photos Allowed Here are some of the beautiful art displays that our students have

produced this term.

DramaWorking on characters in preparation for our June performances.

In Year 5 we have been learning how to play a Christmas melody on the ukulele and have also sung a Hanukkah song.

In Year 6 we spent the last lessons learning to sing the beautiful song “Somewhere Only We Know”

In Year 3 and 4 we are learning how to read music and play

festive melodies on the glockenspiel.

Music



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The Arts (Music)

College/ Senior SchoolFrench

Il était une fois, dans un collège merveilleux… les élèves de 6ème lisaient de nombreux contes. Afin de transmettre leur savoir et la sagesse qu’ils avaient acquise, ils firent apparaître des panneaux magiques en unissant leurs forces.

2nde/Yr 11Liam Menard

3eme/Yr 10Mah Nilla Noory

5eme/Y8Matan Susskind

6eme/Yr 7Natasha Byrne Rebecca ByrneAramis Claoue

Hannah Nefussi

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Les élèves participent à

un projet culturel

impliquant des classes du CM1 à la

3ème venant des quatre continents.

“La Foire des sens” est un recueil de poèmes aux formes diverses rassemblant les créations d’Alivia, Liam, Mathias et Noé.

Chaque poète associe un sens et une émotion avec créativité et lyrisme.

Les philosophes en herbe de Y9 ont créé des dessins d’idées répondant à la question: “Qu’est-ce que philosopher?”

Prochaine mission à suivre…

College/ Senior SchoolOur students have been participating in some experiments

exploring osmosis under the microscope. The red onion cells made

it very easy to observe movement of water outside of cells.

STEAM





Hannah Nefussi


Les sixièmes ont recréé des cellules en classe de SVT. Ils ont su être très créatifs!

Our iGCSE students carrying out a half life activity [Radioactivity] using interlocking cubes

College/ Senior School

GermanLes élèves germanistes ont fêté Saint Martin, personnage célébré en

Allemagne, le 11 novembre.





Hannah Nefussi


Les plus jeunes ont construit des lampions (“Laterne”) et appris la

chanson “Ich geh’ mit meiner Laterne”.

Les élèves de Y9 ont créé des affiches pour présenter la légende du Saint allemand.

Mathias et Alivia ont produit un film de 2min30 dans la langue de Goethe

expliquant les origines de la légende du soldat devenu évêque. (sous-titre français)


Latin

Les Olympiens ? De vrais “people” !Nos journalistes de 4ème ont reçu sur le plateau de leur

émission télévisée deux dieux de l’Olympe : Vénus et Apollon ! Pendant ces interviews exclusives, les divinités

se sont présentées en latin et ont parlé de leurs passions. Noor et Alexandra leur ont également

demandé de raconter une aventure exaltante ou une anecdote à leur sujet : Oscar a narré son combat contre le serpent maléfique Python tandis qu’Olivia a évoqué

Jules César. Valete!





Hannah Nefussi







Hannah Nefussi

Check No Photos Allowed, see below: Maths

Functions work by Carine S, IB DP

Mathematics.

IB DP Mathematics work by Carine S; using software to analyse functions

Series definition of Euler’s Number the

function e^x by Matan and Noe: Mathematics Enrichment Lessons

Additional Mathematics Lesson (Noe,

Liam, Mathias and Olivia)

Year 7 exploring Modular Arithmetic in Enrichment Lesson


7B focused on their reading (we’re studying “Journey to the

River Sea” by Eva Ibbotson) on a chilly December afternoon.

The IGCSE English class have begun to use the new

management system for accessing and uploading

work





Hannah Nefussi


English

MusicIn Year 9 we have been learning how to compose our own melody using the pentatonic scale on the ukulele!

Year 8 playing the melody of O’ Christmas Tree on the ukuleles!

Spanish2nde/Yr 11

Liam Menard




Hannah Nefussi



Welcome to our Spanish class!

Here are some of the new posters from our ETwinning project.

Sport

Courir en franchissant des obstacles en CP

Ultimate frisbeeen CM2

PS took part in an obstacle

course

Events at EIFA

iGCSEOur iGCSE students were congratulated

for their fantastic work by Mme Zurbach and Mr Kuhn.

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Hannah Nefussi

Virtual Internet Safety Assembly November was Internet Safety Month at EIFA! Our students from Y3-Y6 were able to engage with a virtual assembly by the team behind Internet Legends!

Road Safety Week

GS participated in the event ‘ Wear your stripes’ as part of Road Safety week, which took place between 16th-22nd November. See the following website for more details:

http://www.roadsafetyweek.org.uk

Pour la première fois, huit de nos élèves du collège ont passé l'examen DELF (diplôme d’

étude en langue française) ce trimestre. Nous leur souhaitons bonne chance!

DELF

Web Radio

Nos élèves de 4ème et de 5ème ont réalisé deux émissions de webradio. De l’écriture des textes aux aspects

techniques liés à l’enregistrement, ils ont pris en charge la majeure partie du travail. Nos journalistes en herbe ont

exploré des thèmes tels que la Bretagne, les cristaux et ont évoqué le parcours du mathématicien Ramanujan.

La prochaine émission sera une édition spéciale menée par les enseignants.

Christmas Jumper Day

TéléthonPlease see individual

primary class pages and secondary list below for

no photos allowed:





Hannah Nefussi

For the 6th year in a row, EIFA took part in the Telethon. The Telethon was founded in France in 1987 and in 1949 in the United

States. Each year, everywhere in France and around the world hundreds of events are organised to raise money to support the people suffering from a genetic disorder. These diseases are very often aggressive and disabling. This money is also used to finance

research and to support the patients and their families.

Tous les élèves de l’école ont pu déguster des crêpes. Merci à tous les cuisiniers !

Téléthon

In PE, students took the opportunity to engage with sporting challenges; on Friday, December 4, students in Duchess House took turns skipping all day.

Le Vendredi 4 décembre a eu lieu une assemblée lors de laquelle les élèves de IGCSE ont expliqué le rôle du Généthon, laboratoire dédié à la recherche génétique qui fête ses trente ans cette année.Nous avons créé un planisphère du coeur avec toutes les photos envoyées par les familles.Enfin, une grande rétrospective de notre engagement pour le Téléthon est visible sur le site de l’école : www.eifaschool.com/telethon

UN IMMENSE MERCI AUX PARENTS POUR LEURS GÉNÉREUSES CONTRIBUTIONS.

NOUS AVONS LEVÉ PRESQUE 5000€ !

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