Year 4's day at MVC

24th January 2018

Melbourn Village College welcomed 120 primary school pupils for a fun day of activities and learning.

The Year 4 eight and nine-year-olds from six of Melbourn’s partner primary schools - Melbourn, Fowlmere, Foxton, Harston & Newton and Hauxton – experienced a range of different subjects.

They had a taste of Mandarin at the first school in Cambridgeshire to offer the subject as part of the curriculum – and it was a popular experience with students reporting they really enjoyed the lessons with teacher Frank Fan and his now-famous inflatable microphone. He was helped by 16 Melbourn Year 7 students who only started studying the language in September but are already part of the school's fast-track Mandarin Excellence Programme

The other sessions, where teachers were helped by Year 11 prefects, were PE, where the pupils participated in problem-solving, dodgeball and badminton, music, where drumming was the order of the day, and English.

Primary liaison and PE teacher Kelly Coghlan said: “It was great to see so many Year 4 pupils enjoying themselves at the college. They produced some excellent work throughout the four sessions and were a credit to their primary schools.

“Staff said they had a great day and it was lovely to see the pupils working with children from other schools and doing new subjects.”

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