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August 2008 Blog Posts (3)

¡Pocoyó!

Although my boys are getting older, we still love Pocoyo. And so do many of the kids at school. They're really interested when I tell them that Pocoyo is Spanish for little me and worked out for themselves that Pato might mean duck in Spanish.

So when we went to Spain and saw Pocoyo in Spanish on TVE it made perfect sense ( we watched JimJam and Sunny too - that was a bit more odd!)

And when i found videos on Youtube, I was very pleased, and thought I'd share a… Continue

Added by Lisa Stevens on August 27, 2008 at 22:11 — 12 Comments

Price of Gas in France

A thief in Paris planned to steal some

Paintings from the Louvre.

After careful planning, he got past security,

stole the paintings, and made it safely to his

van.

However, he was captured only two blocks away

when his van ran out of gas.

When asked how he could mastermind such a crime

and then make such an obvious error, he replied,

'Monsieur, that is the reason I stole the paintings'…

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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on August 15, 2008 at 22:07 — 4 Comments

Isle of Wight Conference 2008: fantastic peer-to-peer CPD

This year's Isle of Wight Conference is fast approaching and takes place over the weekend of the 25th - 26th October at Nodehill Middle School in Newport. The cost for the whole weekend is just £100 and is money very well spent. There will be speakers from around the country who make fantastic use of ICT to help teach Modern Foreign… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on August 9, 2008 at 19:50 — 11 Comments