WELCOME TO CELLES-SUR- BELLE - FRANCE. The Royal Abbey

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1 WELCOME TO CELLES-SUR- BELLE - FRANCE The Royal Abbey

2 Hello friends! We hope you re fine. This is a photo of our group. There are 28 pupils in our classroom: 16 boys and 12 girls and in our group, there are 14 pupils (one boy was missing) We re going to tell you about our country. Our group

3 OUR COUNTRY France is located in Western Europe and it covers 640,427 square kilometers of land and 3,374 square kilometers of water. It borders the Atlantic Ocean in the West and the Mediterranean Sea in the South-East. France shares land borders with 8 countries: Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Andorra, Belgium, Luxembourg, Monaco and Spain. In France, the currency is the Euro. The capital city of France is Paris. In our country, there are about 67 million inhabitants. In Paris, there are many monuments to visit and one of the most famous monument is the Eiffel Tower.

4 Paris the capital city and some of its famous monuments The Eiffel Tower The Champs- Elysées The Elysée

5 OUR REGION We live in the region named «Nouvelle Aquitaine». Our department is the Deux- Sèvres but there are 3 other departments near us : the Charente, the Charente- Maritime and the Vienne. In the region, there are many attractions but the Charente-Maritime is one of the most popular holiday destinations for families because you have many beautiful beaches and famous tourist attractions such as La Rochelle Aquarium and La Palmyre Zoo. Tourists enjoy La Rochelle, L ile de Ré or L île d Oléron. In the Deux- Sèvres,you can enjoy a boat trip in the Marais Poitevin. In Vienne, you can visit a very famous futuristic park named Le Futuroscope and on the Vendée Coast, there is a very famous park named Le Puy du Fou where you can see wonderful shows. Les Deux-Sèvres

6 Le Marais Poitevin L Ile de Ré L Ile d Oléron La Rochelle

7 Some popular tourist attractions The Puy du Fou The Futuroscope

8 La Palmyre Zoo La Rochelle Aquarium

9 Our Town

10 CELLES-SUR-BELLE v There are 3,700 inhabitants in Celles-Sur-Belle. It is a small town in a rural area. It is famous for its Royal Abbey and its park. In the town centre, there is also a beautiful Roman Church. Celles Sur Belle is also famous for its cheese particularly the Chabichou, a goat cheese..

11 The «Chabichou» : Our region s specialty!!

12 Our school this is a photo of our school

13 OUR SCHOOL There are 597 pupils in the school and about 40 teachers. We don t have to wear uniforms. Our school year starts in September and finishes at the beginning of July. Since our school was too small for the number of students, it has been renovated and now there 3 more new classrooms. Inside the school, there is a common room where we can play video games, listen to music and play games and table football from 12:00 to 13:45. Pupils can also go to the school library or to the study room. During breaks, pupils stay in the playground where they can play table tennis or sit on benches. They can also play ball games. Inside the school, we are allowed to use our mobile phones in the playground but the school rules are going to change in September. For lunch, we have a self- restaurant with a salad bar. The food is very good and we eat local products. School starts at twenty-five to nine and finishes at five to five the evening. Each lesson lasts 55 minutes and we have two twenty-minute breaks in the morning and in the afternoon.

14 OUR SCHOOL SUBJECTS At school, we study French, History and Geography, Art, English, Physics, Biology, Maths, P.E, Technology, Music and either German or Spanish as a second language. Pupils can also study Latin. In our school, there is also a female handball section because in the town,we have a national handball team. So, the girls who are in this section train a lot and have handball lessons twice a week that are part of their timetable.

15 GOODBYE FRIENDS!! We hope you have enjoyed discovering our country and we were very pleased to learn about yours!! It looks fantastic and so beautiful! You re lucky pupils