Language Skills Rocket with Onatti Theatre Visit

by tl | Feb 10, 2025 | Academic

We were delighted to welcome the renowned Onatti Theatre Company back to School to perform a play in French for our Year 6 and First Form, supporting their learning of a modern foreign language. The play, Ticket pour l’espace, took the audience on a thrilling...

Forging Friendships on French Exchange

by tl | Jun 13, 2024 | Trips

Friendships were forged for our Fourth Form linguists on their fantastic French exchange. Earlier in the year, our exchange pupils were paired with their Francophone counterparts from Saint Louis, Sainte Marie, a school in Marignane, in the Southeast of France. The...

Finding a Fève – La Fête des Rois

by tl | Jan 9, 2024 | School Life

La Fête des Rois is always a popular feature of the Prep School calendar and a welcome start to the Lent Term for staff and pupils alike. The festive French-style celebration of Epiphany sees pupils excitedly watch as the galette is cut to find out who has been...

A Final Farewell to French Friends

by tl | Jul 3, 2023 | School Life

We were delighted to welcome our French exchange partners back to England for their leg of the Fourth Form exchange. Their respective Cokethorpe families welcomed them with happiness and hoorays as friends were reunited. Weekends were with filled some quintessentially...

A Bon Voyage

by tl | Mar 28, 2023 | Trips

The Modern Foreign Languages Department were delighted to welcome back the French exchange programme, allowing a group of nineteen Fourth Form pupils to travel to the idyllic Marignane, in the South East of France. Pupils were able to put the French they have been...