Such a lovely start to our day on Thursday as we joined LinGo Explore, led by Caroline. This is a language class with a difference ‘Learn French in your welly boots!’ And whilst we didn’t need our wellies today we truly enjoyed our morning of outdoor exploration and learning.LinGo Explore is a Pre-school outdoor language class delivered by Caroline who is a trained and experienced language teacher. It’s all done outsides with a different location and theme each week.
The special language classes are for children from 18 months to 4 years old. The groups are a minimum of six pre-schoolers so you get a really personal experience.The theme of the class we attended was all to do with the story of the three little pigs. This is a real favourite of Rafferty’s. We started with a lovely welcome song in French and then the children chose a pair of binoculars and a basket. Fully equipped we headed out on a hunt for piggies around Valley Gardens. As we walked and collected the children were spoken to in both French and English. What was great was that the children pointed out things they could see on route and Caroline explained what they were seeing in French. After collecting and counting our pigs, in French, the children loved having a hot chocolate and doing some biscuit decoration. Caroline had made biscuits and brought pink icing to decorate the biscuits with. Raffy especially loved this part and Trilli helped with the biscuit eating too! The three little pigs story was then read to the children in French and then they had fun singing a song about the big bad wolf with a puppet. The class ended with a lovely goodbye song and by the end of the class Raffy was even saying some words in French!We really enjoyed this class because it was well paced, full of variety and fun. Caroline is really welcoming and had a fantastic rapport with the children. There are two LinGo Exolore classes every Thursday in Harrogate the first at 9.30 and the second at 10.30 and they last for 45 minutes. If your child enjoys being outside, want to try something a bit different and have great fun then LinGo Explore is definitely worth a try.
Each lesson is 45 minutes long and it is£8.50 per child per session, for more details contact Caroline Jackson on 07841 167141 or caroline@lingoexplore.co.uk
Reviewed May 2022 by Mumbler Champion Nic and Raffy
Disclosure: We were gifted our class at LinGo Explore however we pinky promised to only write a truthful account. Phew, we really enjoyed it! (otherwise that could have been awks!)
