Wellesley Middle School in late March held its annual French Fête, a feast of food, music, activities, and culture.
The event is sponsored by the Parent-Teacher Organization and supplemented by many individual donations.
Highlights included:
• Parent volunteers abounded
• Families shared their francophone home cultures by sponsoring tables about Haiti and Mardi Gras in New Orleans
• Wellesley High School Key Club volunteers, including several former WMS French students, helped out
• WMS French teachers Hafsa Abdelmoula and Rebecca Blouwolff organized a karaoke song and dances by grade to French pop tunes (including a first-ever country line dance!), games, and activities that highlighted the French language and the cultures of the French-speaking world
• Le Petit Four bakery donated gift cards to the dance contest winners, which coaxed many reluctant dancers out onto the dance floor
