{"id":8071,"date":"2025-07-04T04:15:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T04:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/?post_type=article&#038;p=8071"},"modified":"2025-07-04T04:15:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T04:15:03","slug":"year-8-french-activity","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/article\/year-8-french-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 8 French Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Year 8 French plays p\u00e9tanque<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To complete their studies of French sports and leisure activities, the year 8 French classes (8O and 8I) spent a day out on the oval to experience the most classic French sport of p\u00e9tanque for themselves. P\u00e9tanque, similar to lawn bowls, bocce or boules, is played all over France, with special lawns in every French town.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before we went outside, we learnt essential p\u00e9tanque vocabulary through a game of Lire Courir \u00c9crire (Read Run Write), where students have to memorise and relay a written script hanging outside the classroom to their partner on the inside. Useful phrases included \u201cje joue \u00e0 la p\u00e9tanque\u201d (I\u2019m playing p\u00e9tanque), \u201cc\u2019est mon tour!\u201d (it\u2019s my turn), \u201cc\u2019est un carreau\u201d (it\u2019s a diamond\/great shot), and \u201cj\u2019adore ce jeu!\u201d (I love this game).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We then went outside to have a go for ourselves. We experienced many successes and also learnt that it\u2019s not always as easy as it seems. Some groups of students also played croquet (debatably not a French sport but with an undeniably French sounding name, perhaps descended from the French game \u2018paille-maille\u2019).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was lovely to get out of the classroom and to put our French knowledge into action. Special mention must be made of Sophie, Hannah and Cara\u2019s exceptional close shots, an achievement worthy of les Jeux Olympiques. Now that we have flexed our p\u00e9tanque muscles, it\u2019s time to move on to a delicious French breakfast feast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8072\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/06\/IMG_9942-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8073\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/06\/IMG_9930-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8074\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/06\/IMG_0043-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8075\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/06\/IMG_0036-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8076\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/06\/IMG_0021-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Mr de Jong<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>French Teacher<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year 8 French plays p\u00e9tanque To complete their studies of French sports and leisure activities, the year 8 French classes (8O and 8I) spent a day out on the oval to experience the most classic French sport of p\u00e9tanque for themselves. P\u00e9tanque, similar to lawn bowls, bocce or boules, is played all over France, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-8071","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/8071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}