French

French is taught by native speakers, Madame Sebag and Mademoiselle Borg:

Madame Aude Sebag has been at Wetherby Preparatory School since the school opened in 2004, and is Head of French. She has been teaching in international schools prior to joining Wetherby School. She studied for a PhD in French literature at City University of New York and has been living in the United Kingdom since 1987. She is married and has 3 children.

Mademoiselle Borg has been at Wetherby Preparatory School since September 2007. She teaches French to the lower years and is French co ordinator at Wetherby School. She taught at both an Anglo Italian Montessori School and an International School in Italy prior to joining Wetherby Prep. She has a BA in English and American literature from the ‘Université de Lettres’ in Nice, France and has completed a P.G.C.E in Modern Foreign languages at Bath Spa University. She is a native French speaker and is fluent in Italian.

"Year 4 and 5 focus on listening and speaking so pupils start to understand spoken French and become used to answering in French.

From year 6 onward we develop the four skills required for the Common Entrance exam: listening, speaking, reading and writing.  They will have acquired enough vocabulary to be able to write in French. We cater to speaking skills by providing in the timetable a period devoted to individual testing.

We also make speaking in French a school event by offering each term a French breakfast with croissants and pains au chocolat. A day trip to the Boulogne area is organised in year 5 to visit a bakery, and in year 6, a week residential stay in Normandy packed with fun activities, and visit to the local D day landing beach and a French market.  We start a correspondent programme with a school outside Paris in year 7.  We have also established links with the French lycée in London. ICT skills are put to use to learn to type French accents and year 8 does a power point presentation in French."

Madame Sebag,
Head of French

• Year 4 French Revision Guide
• Year 5 French Revision Guide
• Year 6 French Revision Guide
• Year 7 French Revision Guide