Fun with French Mobile & online school: through the years
We go beyond listening / speaking / reading / writing. We integrate cultures, giving you multilingual and multicultural competences so you can have more options for your future !
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The Fun With French (Mobile School) Club is the only one of its kind.
Focusing on students in very rural locations or ghetto areas who would not normally have (easy) access to learning French language and culture, French is taught via core subject areas in fun, realistic, hands-on lessons.
These are complemented by a penpal programme in collaboration with schools in France; handwritten letters and cultural souvenirs are exchanged via the Post Office.
Pen pal relationships offer a number of significant inter-disciplinary benefits such as:
- valuable writing practice which will result in improvements in other subject areas
- increased awareness and knowledge of other societies and cultures
- a chance to maintain ongoing communication with people who live far away, possibly opening doors for the future
- learning foreign languages by actually being engaged in the language and culture
The Fun With French Team makes contact with local schools and starts a club at those that have an interest in giving their students even more. The Fun With French club then becomes an additional offering by that school.
Otherwise, club is hosted at a central location in a community - as a community club - for just anyone to come in and learn.
Market research has shown that there are persons who live in difficult / rural areas who are interested in learning French, but the distance and bus fares and / or the high fees of the private organisations prevent them.
In Jamaica, only a small percentage of persons will ever have access to French language and culture.
At the primary level, it's only offered at expensive private schools.
At the secondary level, only certain institutions in specific locations offer this subject, so unless one is "placed" in one of these schools at the end of the Grade 6 exam, then the possibility of learning French becomes slimmer and slimmer.
Most persons in difficult or rural areas have very limited resources and so funds are allocated to basics of life, and their cycle continues.
We the Fun With French Team, are serious about success for all, so we take education to as many as possible, to try to over-ride the inequality in educational opportunities.
Focusing on students in very rural locations or ghetto areas who would not normally have (easy) access to learning French language and culture, French is taught via core subject areas in fun, realistic, hands-on lessons.
These are complemented by a penpal programme in collaboration with schools in France; handwritten letters and cultural souvenirs are exchanged via the Post Office.
Pen pal relationships offer a number of significant inter-disciplinary benefits such as:
- valuable writing practice which will result in improvements in other subject areas
- increased awareness and knowledge of other societies and cultures
- a chance to maintain ongoing communication with people who live far away, possibly opening doors for the future
- learning foreign languages by actually being engaged in the language and culture
The Fun With French Team makes contact with local schools and starts a club at those that have an interest in giving their students even more. The Fun With French club then becomes an additional offering by that school.
Otherwise, club is hosted at a central location in a community - as a community club - for just anyone to come in and learn.
Market research has shown that there are persons who live in difficult / rural areas who are interested in learning French, but the distance and bus fares and / or the high fees of the private organisations prevent them.
In Jamaica, only a small percentage of persons will ever have access to French language and culture.
At the primary level, it's only offered at expensive private schools.
At the secondary level, only certain institutions in specific locations offer this subject, so unless one is "placed" in one of these schools at the end of the Grade 6 exam, then the possibility of learning French becomes slimmer and slimmer.
Most persons in difficult or rural areas have very limited resources and so funds are allocated to basics of life, and their cycle continues.
We the Fun With French Team, are serious about success for all, so we take education to as many as possible, to try to over-ride the inequality in educational opportunities.
References / Achievements
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http://www.ambafrance-jm-bm.org/Visite-au-Liberty-Learning-Centre
https://www.facebook.com/ProjetUnitedforJamaica/videos/1803472996618196/?hc_ref=ARQqlK6T-22LAFnnKUlhs309LDAZVIoP3SZXMxs2YyccK1b1EWEgitctUDsIyfmo5_g http://www.ambafrance-jm-bm.org/La-langue-francaise-bien http://www.ambafrance-jm-bm.org/Les-membres-de-la-Jamaica The Sunday Gleaner Newspaper Article 17 March 2013: http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130317/out/out9.html * Radio Interview 20 August 2013 - Dervan Malcolm, Power 106FM * Radio Interview 10 December 2015 - Jerry Small, NewsTalk 93 FM |