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Speaking endorsement for MFL GCSE 2021

November 18, 2020November 18, 2020Katherine Jefferies

Last week we saw the final criteria for the MFL speaking endorsement published by Ofqual ( link here ). For our colleagues in English this is not a new thing, but for us in MFL it is a novelty and as such it has raised a certain amount of uncertainty and concern. How can we decide fairly […]

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The Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators

November 12, 2020November 12, 2020Katherine Jefferies
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The Translation Exchange at the Queen’s College, Oxford, launched a brand-new competition for schools in September 2020. The competition is inspired by the work of the translator Anthea Bell OBE (1936–2018), one of the finest and most influential literary translators of the 20th and 21st centuries. The competition takes place in March 2021, but we […]

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4 ways to make every minute of every lesson count in the time of Covid-19

November 4, 2020November 4, 2020Katherine Jefferies
Drop Everything and Read blog

This return to school has been like no other. As usual, we have had to face confirmation of Ebbinghaus’ forgetting curve after a long summer break; but this time, with the addition of those months in lockdown. And, although happy to be back in school, we have found ourselves having to work extra hard not […]

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Language teaching in September – what might it look like?

June 25, 2020July 14, 2020Oxford Languages Team 2 Comments
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Aprender a dudar es aprender a pensar (‘Learning to doubt is learning to think’). -Octavio Paz In March this year, school life as we know it shuddered to a halt, and as we write, when and under what guise it will fully return remains unclear. Over the past few months, teachers and students will have […]

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Supporting key year groups as they return to school

June 25, 2020July 14, 2020Oxford Languages Team

How do we support key year groups, now and on our return to school? and what do we do for those who can’t return at the same time? These are the questions we all wish we knew the answers to, aren’t they? The truth is I don’t think that anyone has the magic fix, that […]

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Back to the classroom – Anneli Mclachlan

June 18, 2020July 14, 2020Oxford Languages Team

The Covid-19 crisis has thrown up some very real obstacles for many students in terms of access to the curriculum. While some fortunate students may have been working fairly constantly online, others may have had patchy internet access, no personal device and the odd pdf here or there. The crisis has catapulted access and equity […]

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Looking forward to the return to school

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020Oxford Languages Team 1 Comment
Teacher listening in classrooom

I think if there’s something that the partial school closures have taught me it’s about the aspects of the job that I take for granted. It’s easy to forget the enjoyment of actually being in the classroom, especially on really busy days with back to back lessons. There’s even something to be said about being […]

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5 Tips for Teaching from Home while maintaining sanity, structure and a work-life balance

April 28, 2020April 28, 2020Oxford Languages Team
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Rebecca Nobes shares five strategies she’s using to adjust to teaching from home during lockdown. I’d like to start this blog with a quick disclaimer, I am no expert. I am a teacher like any other just trying to make these strange times work as best they can. This blog is an opportunity for me […]

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Our top 3 talking points for Language World 2020

March 10, 2020March 26, 2020Katherine Jefferies
Language World - Association of Language Learning

Are you heading to the Association of Language Learning conference this weekend? Here, authors of ¡Claro!  José and Tony share what they’re looking forward to… Of Primary Importance One of the first things that struck us when we received the programme for Language World 2020 was the healthy number of talks and workshops relating to primary language learning. We […]

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How languages changed my life: Farah Aden

February 19, 2020March 26, 2020Oxford Languages Team
How language-learning has changed my life: Luke Baxter

The last in our series of tales from language learning takes you on a journey of discovery to Somaliland. We hope these stories will help inspire your students to opt for a modern language (or two!).

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