On September 25th 193 world leaders met to commit to the Global Goals for Sustainable development. Can we talk about this in our lessons this week? Could pupils work with dictionaries as a starter activity translating two or three of the goals? Have you heard about the world’s largest lesson ? Some texts we might wish to use in class […]
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I hope that you have had a good break and rest over the summer. Heads of departments and teachers have been considering the new A Level and GCSE specifications on training days and thinking about whether the learning of a foreign language is statutory in all key stages. There are some relevant sections for us […]
Read moreYou might like to finish the term by reading René Koglbauer’s letter to Mr Gibb , Minister of State at the Department for Education, and thinking about why and how the Welsh government are trying to reverse the decline in foreign language learning in Wales. Huw Lewis , Welsh Labour Co-operative politician, spoke about globalisation “continuing to transform our economy and industries”. “I want […]
Read moreI have to admit that I feel overwhelmed, overwhelmed emotionally at the end of this year. I have been to several meetings, conferences and events recently with groups of keen teachers planning for next year. I admire everyone so much. Teachers are busy revamping their KS2 and KS3 schemes of work, exploring the potential of […]
Read moreDid you hear the good news about Bernardette Holmes , Teacher and Modern Languages Education Advocate, being awarded an MBE in recognition to her services to Education? Isn’t this great for languages! Well done Bernardette! As promised last week here is the first of Rob Pike’s guest posts. Over to Rob… “In my line of work I am fortunate to meet […]
Read more190 million questions were answered during the 2015 Language Perfect Championship. As I mentioned in my previous post, Education Perfect promised to donate money to help people in Nepal for every student that achieved a Gold Award this year, so here is an update on #GoldForNepal! More than 5,000 students received Gold and Elite awards […]
Read moreI hope that you had a good break over half term. I was away with friends. Can you guess where I was when I took this photo? Do any readers of the blog know? I like the idea of cafés where you can read and look at unusual pictures and objects on the walls! If […]
Read moreThe Language Perfect Championships are starting again running from 18th to 28th May and breaking news is that Education Perfect will donate money to help people in Nepal for every student that achieves a Gold Award this year. Language Perfect see themselves as a global community. The 8.1M earthquake on 25th April followed by another two weeks later hit Nepal leaving thousands dead and countless injured and homeless. […]
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Perhaps we should learn from children. They can be so funny and very serious too. They often have a very different perspective to adults and they are certainly not afraid to ask questions! Perhaps politicians should ask them to voice their opinions on learning languages and about their hopes for the future more often? Learning […]
Read moreThe authors remind us that 2014/2015 sees the compulsory teaching across two consecutive key stages for the first time since 2004. ‘It is clear that issues occurring at one particular key stage are rarely isolated and frequently have a knock on effect on another key stage…’ This is of course true in our experience, isn’t […]
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