In September, upon joining a new school (and thus a new department) I decided to give myself a target: to make sure that departmental meetings were meaningful, insightful and valued. In short, I wanted to ensure that our Geography departmental meetings were more than just a discussion of admin or a list of discussion points […]
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With the summer term well underway, you might be making plans to welcome September’s new Year 7 cohort to school on induction day. With this in mind, we asked former Leader of English (and parent) Jill Carter what advice she’d give to parents whose children are about to start secondary school for the first time. […]
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With the summer term well underway, you might be making plans to welcome September’s new Year 7 cohort to school on induction day. With this in mind, we asked former Leader of English (and parent) Jill Carter what advice she’d give to parents whose children are about to start secondary school for the first time. […]
Read moreCurrently, many early years settings will be helping their oldest children prepare for their upcoming transition to school. While focussed on those all-important preparation activities – such as visits to the new setting, reading books about starting school and playing making friends games – it’s easy to forget about providing equally important opportunities for children […]
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 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. […]
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 […]
Read moreDuring September many new trainees have started their courses and are on the road to becoming successful teachers of foreign languages. We need you! I’ve heard that you are very keen and enthusiastic and certainly the trainees I had at York last year were, and the new group who have just started seem to be! […]
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