It was so good to be present at Language World when Dr Geoff Brammall was honoured as an ALL fellow. He has worked tirelessly for the language community and I respect him so much. Carol Hughes nominated him and asked us why what we thought about this. Carol has written this post on questions and […]
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It has certainly been an extremely busy few weeks and most of us are waiting for the final versions of new specifications. I know that I am really fortunate to work with some great people and as well as working with the team at York I sometimes deliver joint sessions at Newcastle University. When I […]
Read moreWe’re all very busy here in the office, looking forward to the ALL Language World conference in just over a month in Rugby. While preparations for us are full steam ahead, we thought it might be a good time to look back at the lessons we learnt from last years’ conference. A lasting impression Something that jumped out in […]
Read moreTo get a reaction, while pointing out the window, I asked ‘Well, if the plural of mouse is mice, why isn’t the plural of house hice?’ This is an example of confusing plurals that I have often used over the years during Y7 lessons when one of the learners has commented on something in the foreign […]
Read moreOur subject association ALL and the Association for Science Education play a big part in the lives of members of my family. Whilst reading the Education in Science magazine in September (Number 261) the article Learning lessons from Finland and Estonia by Dr Neil McIntyre caught my attention. Neil gained a chemistry PhD at St. Andrews […]
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The 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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The 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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That’s what I heard Georgina Harwood from Cape Town say – she has just celebrated her 100th birthday by skydiving ! Here are a couple of teaching ideas using dictionaries with a focus on improving understanding of grammar… How about a dictionary race? The pupils race each other to find additional adjectives? This will of course reinforce their understanding […]
Read moreThe new app Be My Eyes in just one day after launching, had over 10,000 users. I’m always really interested, as I’m sure you are, in medical advances and new technology that transforms lives. On both sides of my family people have suffered with very serious problems with eyesight and this app sounds amazing. We […]
Read moreLast week I had the pleasure of attending two TeachMeets, one in Oxford at Fitzharry’s School organised by Lisa Probert the Head of Languages, and the other one by Suzi Bewell at York University. They worked hard to get a good crowd of teachers there and the atmosphere was really good at both events. Both […]
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