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French Week

During French Week, Year 6 learned how to play the French game, Poules, Renards, Viperes. This is a three-way tag game, so you need to divide your players into three teams. 

Les poules (the chickens) chase the snakes and are chased by the foxes.
Les renards (the foxes) chase the chickens and are chased by the snakes.
Les viperes (the snakes) chase the foxes and are chased by the chickens.

If you are tagged by the team chasing you, then they capture you and take you back to their base. 

We had a lot of fun playing this game, and we'd recommend it to any class to try (make sure you have three different coloured sets of bibs or sashes, though)!




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