Project Name: On the Snail Trail - integrating aspects of CLIL into the KS2 curriculum

Lead Institution: Bedford Borough School Improvement Service
No. of Partner Institutions: 7
Project Leader: Jan Lewandowski
Sector(s): Primary/ Secondary

Description:
In Bedford Borough lower schools there is currently some disparity between learning outcomes by the end of Year 4, before transfer to middle school.  The project will attempt to identify aspects of communality and provide appropriate and innovative resources within a new context. This project aims to put language learning in Key Stage 2 into a meaningful context.  It incorporates elements of CLIL in French, German, Spanish and Italian, involving mathematics and science, based on a story book and original Open University scientific research (see www.evolutionmegalab.org).

Project Name: Backstage

Lead Institution: Bungay High School, Suffolk
No. of Partner Institutions: 3
Project Leader: Jackie Dix
Sector(s): Primary/ Secondary

Description:
Based on well-known popular contemporary cultural international festivals, this project will enable students to develop the language skills required to promote, organise and run a music and/or arts festival, and review the event. Students will develop their spoken skills through using the language creatively for a real purpose.

Project Name: Talk to Learn

Lead Institution: Comberton Village College, Cambridgeshire
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Rachel Hawkes
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
This project seeks to foreground two aspects of learner talk in the target language: planned talk and spontaneous talk, and through the development of new task types engaging with a variety of different contexts and stimuli (for example, film, story-telling, song and pictures) improve learners’ confidence and creativity with spoken language.

Project Name: Evolution of MFL through science

Lead Institution: King Edward VI Grammar School, Suffolk
No. of Partner Institutions: 3
Project Leader: Jane Breen
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
The project establishes a cross-curricular partnership between science and language teachers, using science as a means to contextualise language learning and progression through Key Stage 3. It aims to enhance motivation, raise the profile of languages and enable the teachers involved to become leaders in language learning.

Project Name: Creative Projects

Lead Institution: Northgate High School, Norfolk
No. of Partner Institutions: 3
Project Leader: Vincent Everett
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
Outside clients commission a project requiring the use of the foreign language, and pupils deliver the project, such as a children's book for a primary school, a resource for a visitor attraction or jingles for a radio station. The participating schools analyse to what extent their curriculum is supportive of pupil creativity and independence.

Project Name: Bringing a text to life: from talk to performance

Lead Institution: Pulham Primary School, Norfolk
No. of Partner Institutions: 3
Project Leader: Lizzie Brooks
Sector(s): Primary

Description:
Starting from the principles behind ‘Talk for Writing’* (Primary Literacy Strategy) this project will develop creative and innovative practice using appropriate foreign language text(s). The text is gradually memorised by the whole class, leading to creative, confident and independent use of new language.

BLC and Dissemination Presentation

Lead Institution: Attleborough High School
No. of Partner Institutions: 1
Project Leader: Connie Wind-Avery
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
The project explores the relevance of languages within a business context. Two schools will work with local employers, year 9s writing articles on the theme of “Languages Take You Further” and Year 12s researching the European Market for pet food and presenting their findings. The projects will be presented to staff and students from other schools at the annual Norfolk MFL speaking competition to encourage school-business partnerships. Both schools, along with RLN East, will offer ongoing consultancy to schools who wish to undertake a project with a local company.

Project Name: Community Cohesion - Mixed age language learning through NVQ

Lead Institution: Comberton Village College, Cambridgeshire
No. of Partner Institutions: 3
Project Leader: Helen Piggott
Sector(s): Primary/ Secondary

Description:
Schools will open a mixed class with adults from the local community (either with Y10 NVQ classes or Y9 students) leading to either Level 1 or Level 2 accreditation in NVQ business language). Teachers will begin to extend their teacher repertoire to meet the needs of a wider range of learner needs presented by learners of different ages, experiences and abilities. It is hoped that students will adopt a more mature approach to their language learning through collaboration with adult learners.

Project Name: Languages Live

Lead Institution: Impington Village College, Cambridgeshire
No. of Partner Institutions: 3
Project Leader: Helen Piggott
Sector(s): Primary/ Secondary

Description:
This project is providing teachers with the opportunity to network with colleagues, share ideas, and develop and evaluate new resources or methods of working.  It is giving colleagues working in smaller departments the opportunity to have the collaborative support of colleagues in other schools. Each school's Key Stage 3 students are exploring themes and topics particular to their scheme of work and attempting to use languages more imaginatively and be more independent learners through the use of film, drama, puppet shows and plays. 

Project Name: Fabriquons un Orchestre

Lead Institution: Southend High School for Girls
No. of Partner Institutions: 5
Project Leader: Nicola Valencia
Sector(s): Primary/ Secondary

Description:
Project partners will develop in collaboration an Integrated Language Learning project (CLIL) where the French language becomes a means of teaching and learning in another curriculum area (Design and Technology with links to Science and Music). As the title 'Fabriquons un orchestre!' suggests, children will learn about the construction of a range of musical instruments, including those from different times and cultures, and how different sounds can be created and altered. They will use this knowledge to design and make a working musical instrument using a combination of materials.

Project Name: Medals for Learning

Lead Institution: The Leventhorpe School
No. of Partner Institutions: 3
Project Leader: Jane Reynolds
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
This project’s aim is to increase pupils’ motivation for the learning of different languages and cultures through the medium of sport. Both PE and languages departments will collaborate in this project. Team-teaching and cross-curricular observations will be introduced, in order to share good practice in both schools and show a trend of improvement across the target languages. Pupils will develop team building skills by organising and delivering Olympic and World cup-style festivals and events for younger pupils in each school or feeder primary schools.

East Midlands

Project Name: Widening Russian Horizons

Lead Institution: Business Language Champions, Nottingham
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Sally Fagan
Sector(s): Primary/ Secondary

Description:
A Russian seminar will be organised at two schools in Nottingham, making use of the UK Tour in April 2010 of the renowned professional Hermitage Ensemble from St. Petersburg. The Ensemble has agreed to give a concert and to teach the students a song in Russian at each school. We will invite pupils from Year 6 from five feeder primary schools and business people who are trading with Russia to talk about their experiences or engage students with an activity.

Project Name: Enterprise projects to motivate language learners

Lead Institution: South Wolds School, Nottinghamshire
No. of Partner Institutions: 1
Project Leader: Anne Rajakumar
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
In a series of twilight sessions we will share and model ideas about using an enterprise project in the classroom, starting with information sharing relating to our ‘Apprentice in Japan’ project. In this project our students going to Japan in October spend the preceding six months working with a successful consultancy business operating in the UK and Japan, to develop a service, a product, or a product to export to Japan.

Project Name: The world today and tomorrow

Lead Institution: Brookvale High School
No. of Partner Institutions: 6
Project Leader: Denise Hills
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
Building on successful collaboration in a Strategic Learning Network, the project will engage Year 9 students in real world issues to sustain motivation and progression into the GCSE years and to help students adopt a CAN DO approach to language learning. We will develop a scheme of learning which will expand our repertoire of learning activities, and work collaboratively with subject specialists to ensure that cross-curricular work supports and enhances learning and supports curriculum cohesion.

Project Name: Vocational languages in Diplomas

Lead Institution: EMFEC
No. of Partner Institutions: 3
Project Leader: Geoffrey Scaplehorn
Sector(s): Secondary/FE

Description:
The project aims to encourage more students studying for Travel and Tourism Diplomas to learn a language. The language teachers will work with their vocational course colleagues to integrate languages into the Principal Lines of Learning, making the language activities more relevant and engaging. The group will draft, trial and revise assessment tasks at three levels, enabling students to gain qualifications such as NVQ Language Units and Asset Languages.

Project Name: Hear me see me - Getting online together with a shared curriculum

Lead Institution: Lutterworth High School
No. of Partner Institutions: 11
Project Leader: Anne Roberts
Sector(s): Primary

Description:
The project will involve all feeder primary schools in the planning and agreeing of a core curriculum in KS1 and 2. With the help of a native French speaker, we will produce linked-in sound and video recordings that will be uploaded on to our Virtual Learning Environment. We will also undertake a programme of peer observation opportunities, develop a passport-style assessment tool and an e-portfolio of achievement and reflection for use at transition.

Project Name: Learn Geography through French

Lead Institution: St Paul's Catholic School
No. of Partner Institutions: 2
Project Leader: Marylise Pocceschi
Sector(s): Primary

Description:
A teacher from St Paul’s will work in partnership with their colleagues from primary schools to plan and then deliver a sequence of cross curricular lessons in French to Year 5 and 6 students. It is anticipated that they will team teach these lessons, piloting new materials, approaches and methods for making subject specific language learning successful and fun.The lessons will consolidate concepts and language that students are already learning in class in geography, and encouraging global understanding with particular reference to Francophone countries.

Project Name: Mobile Technology in the MFL classroom and on location using the iPhone, iPod touch and the iPad

Lead Institution: Nottingham E-Learning Centres (Part of Children's Services, Nottingham City Council
No. of Partner Institutions: 5
Project Leader: Marie-Line Antoine
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
The North Nottingham e-Learning Centre will be working in partnership with four Nottingham City secondary schools – Fernwood, Trinity, Bluecoat and NUSA (Nottingham University Samworth Academy) – to link emerging mobile technology with languages curriculum and pedagogy. We hope that this project will be truly collaborative and provide a platform for the teachers involved to use their subject expertise to try out hardware, software and multimedia resources. They will produce their own resources in all four skills, using e-books, podcasting, blogging and videoing. An important aspect is to enable pupils to produce resources themselves and learn from other pupils. We are also interested in investigating how the technology can enhance the languages experience and learning beyond the classroom walls, for example in foreign exchanges, trips and international links. We hope to share our findings, resources and best practice within not only the languages departments but also in other subject areas in partner schools and more widely.

Project Name: Now you are talking

Lead Institution: Belper School and Sixth Form Centre
No. of Partner Institutions: 3
Project Leader: Linda Thomas / Aoife Galletly
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
The project seeks to support teachers and learners in adapting to a brand new set of circumstances, namely the new style GCSE and, in particular, Controlled Assessment. The aim is to increase pupil confidence and independence in speaking by focusing on discovering effective methods to teach pronunciation at KS4. Schemes of work, lesson plans, presentation slides, resources and research produced in the partner schools will be shared iin the form of a resource pack.

Project Name: Building Bridges

Lead Institution: Carr Hill Primary School
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Vanessa Smith
Sector(s): Primary/ Secondary

Description:
The project seeks to develop a means by which our family of primary schools and the feeder secondary school can consistently assess the progress being made by pupils both as they move through a key stage and on to the next. We wish to develop a bridging unit which all pupils will begin in Year 6 and continue for a time in Year 7. At the end of the project a bank of video clips will be produced to be used as exemplars for assessment activities to facilitate teacher CPD in the future and moderation of current practice.

Project Name: CLIL Support Network

Lead Institution: Chenderit School
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Judith Woodfield
Sector(s): Primary/ Secondary

Description:
Alongside an open day and INSET event to share good practice in the teaching of CLIL subjects, the partners in this project will be setting up a Social Enterprise Company which will be run by our Creative and Media Diploma students from September 2010. They will produce our classroom materials professionally, producing copyright free film, artwork and photography to be made available beyond the project. The resources will be available online via a website run and managed by the students.

Project Name: Languages Linked Up

Lead Institution: John Cleveland College
No. of Partner Institutions: 5
Project Leader: Miriam Friedmann
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
Through this project, joint classes across the project partners are to be organised at fixed times of the year to improve motivation, addressing more age appropriate themes and creating more engagement. The project will have a creative element - for example creating story books/brochures for local primary schools or the crèche - that feeds into the creative elements of the new GCSE scheme, and will allow all students to show what they have learned over the three years of language study.

Project Name: This is our world

Lead Institution: Judgmeadow Specialist Language College
No. of Partner Institutions: 6
Project Leader: Sarah Brown
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
This project aims to re-root language teaching in a far richer cultural context than is presently offered by schools in Leicester. It will create a bank of stimulating and exciting resources to engage and inspire learners. The project will also aim to develop a range of teaching and learning strategies which will be trialled in a variety of different local schools, and develop students’ thinking skills by creating a range of opportunities for them to study aspects of different cultures.

Project Name: Derby County Languages Award

Lead Institution: Lees Brook Community Sports College
No. of Partner Institutions: 6
Project Leader: Graham Whittaker
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
This Project combines languages and sport within a fun and enjoyable learning situation both in and out of the classroom. Using the model of the highly successful Arsenal Double Club initiative, the project partners will collaborate to produce a similar scheme, with all the materials relating to Derby County Football Club. The course will take the form of a self-contained module, at the end of which there will be the opportunity of a mini-tournament at Pride Park Stadium.

Project Name: Relevant and motivating approaches to MFL

Lead Institution: Lincoln Christ's Hospital School
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Nick Brown
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
The Project aims to increase the relevance of languages in schools by making more use of ICT and authentic materials. It is hoped that by encouraging them to develop speaking skills in exploring issues of personal interest, the level of pupil engagement and motivation will rise. This approach, with different content, can be used both for the current Y10 and for the current Y9. A training DVD and pack of resources trialled during the year will be produced.

Project Name: Total immersion

Lead Institution: Max Conflict Management
No. of Partner Institutions: 3
Project Leader: Mark Wingfield
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
In this project, groups of 15 students at a time will kinaesthetically learn assertive techniques in the foreign language. Strategic planning in advance with languages staff will ensure that oral work is both reinforced and extended in subsequent lessons. This project will impact positively on the use of the target language and develop self-confidence, self-assertiveness and strategies to enhance self-protection, particularly with regard to vulnerable or ‘hard-to-reach-pupils.

Project Name: Supporting learning for alternative accreditation and the new GCSEs

Lead Institution: Sinfin Community School
No. of Partner Institutions: 5
Project Leader: Kevin Day
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
This project aims to investigate means of alternative accreditation to broaden the diet of languages taught across the Derby. It will provide a forum for the celebration of languages whereby schools that may have had successes with alternative courses are able to make presentations to the group to showcase their successes. It also aims to invite in training providers with expertise in this area to inform the group of the possibilities that exist beyond GCSE and how schools can be given support in these alternative means of accreditation.

Project Name: Improving pupil's progress in languages through effective approaches to transition

Lead Institution: Bexley Local Authority
No. of Partner Institutions: 8
Project Leader: Sue Dean
Sector(s): Primary/ Secondary

Description:
Primary and secondary schools work together to scrutinise pupils' work, moderate levels, and share planning, teaching and lesson observations so that tools and techniques are agreed and provide systematic approaches to create a smooth transition experience between Key Stages 2 and 3. They will develop an electronic tool (database) to transfer information about pupils’ language learning - attainment, experience and achievement - so that effective arrangements can be made on entry to Year 7. Partnership arrangements will be facilitated and supported by the Local Authority.

Project Name: The language of business

Lead Institution: City of Westminster College
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Anna Motzo
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
The idea is to bring together employers and young people, to enhance the employers’ engagement in language learning and to give pupils an opportunity to understand how languages are used in a real work life. With the employers and students we’ll produce audio and video material to be used in both language and business lessons in order to integrate the two programmes.

Project Name: These shoes are made for talking

Lead Institution: St James RC Primary School
No. of Partner Institutions: 1
Project Leader: Danielle Dion-Jones
Sector(s): Primary

Description:
In our project children and teachers are given the opportunity to step into someone else’s shoes: someone with another language and culture. They ‘become’ someone else living in another country and speaking another language - someone who does not speak or understand English. Pupils and teachers explore drama strategies new to the languages classroom. They take part in a type of drama known as ‘process drama’ where teacher and pupils work in and out of role to create a ‘real life’ context appropriate to the culture of the target language. From this starting point, children use their imagination to create further situations that are appealing and engaging to them personally. Teachers use their creativity to structure the lessons to facilitate language learning and to provide opportunities for spontaneous interaction.

Project Name: Olympian values inspire language-learning and teaching in Newham!

Lead Institution: Kingsford Community School
No. of Partner Institutions: 2
Project Leader: Holly Morgan
Sector(s): Primary

Description:
We will develop a vision, policy, action plan, scheme of work and resources for the teaching of French in primary schools which will be based on the 7 Olympic and Paralympic Values. We will team-plan, team-teach, observe and evaluate to deliver high quality French lessons. Our aim is to enable the primary schools to feel more confident in teaching French through developing a curriculum pathway to follow using all the documents we will have created eg. Olympic pack, minutes from planning meetings, notes from INSETs, learning diaries.

Project Name: Speak up, speak out

Lead Institution: Barking and Dagenham LA
No. of Partner Institutions: 12
Project Leader: Jenny Carpenter
Sector(s): Primary/ Secondary

Description:
Individual primary and secondary stakeholders plus specialist advisers within small local authorities will work in collaboration in developing pupils’ linguistic independence and confidence in speaking. They will develop a view of progression in speaking from Year 5 to Year 8 informed by the Key Stage 2 and 3 Frameworks for languages. Pupils from the eight participating schools will represent and showcase their oracy skills in the target language at a ‘Festival of the Spoken Word’ at the end of the project.

Project Name: Online Language Assistant (OLA)

Lead Institution: Barnet College
No. of Partner Institutions: 3
Project Leader: Stephane Arnaud
Sector(s): Primary/ Secondary

Description:
Barnet College is working with two primary schools where a language specialist is not available, trialling online delivery of short French lessons in collaboration with the classroom teachers. The objective is to make these lessons beneficial for both the pupils and the teachers, who will be meeting with the project leader before and after the delivery of the online lessons. Online teaching is a new approach that will be combined with traditional classroom based teaching to reinforce the pupils’ interest in studying a language.

Project Name: Languages and the 2012 Olympics

Lead Institution: Cambridge Education@Islington
No. of Partner Institutions: 7
Project Leader: Sally Panter
Sector(s): Primary/ Secondary

Description:
Project partners will work collaboratively building on the practice of the current KS2 and KS3 networks, to enable teachers to develop strategies to address the challenge of transition from KS2 to KS3. Primary and secondary teachers will work together to develop and run projects and produce materials on the theme of the Olympics which plan for progression. Outcomes will be cross-phase collaboration, professional learning and mutual support for teachers as well as resources for teachers to use in KS3 which reflect what and how pupils have learned in KS2.

Project Name: Haydon Language College and Hillingdon Primaries Partnership Mentoring Scheme

Lead Institution: Haydon Language College
No. of Partner Institutions: 5
Project Leader: Geri Daly
Sector(s): Primary/ Secondary

Description:
This Project aims to address the concerns of many primary teachers who are non-language specialists and wish to deliver effective language teaching for the Primary Languages Initiative. It will build on the Mentoring Scheme of Haydon Language College which aims specifically to provide one-to-one support by languages staff to non-language specialist primary teachers, to help develop their confidence in teaching languages. The Primaries involved will be invited to observe language lessons in Haydon to gain a different perspective on teaching.

Project Name: Our Voices

Lead Institution: London Borough of Newham
No. of Partner Institutions: 3
Project Leader: Liz Floyd / Susan Prichard
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
The Project will focus on developing the speaking skills of targeted groups of students, linking to the controlled assessments at GCSE for CMFL (Community and Modern Foreign Languages). Project partners hope to use innovative ways of doing this, such as cross-school peer coaching, where the aim is for students from each school to prepare lessons to teach to each other, and to other classes in the school.

Project Name: Junior Apprentice

Lead Institution: Bouygues UK
No. of Partner Institutions: 5
Project Leader: Danielle Jackson
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
This project will create a competition between the schools on developing links in the local community, involving both their languages and business skills. It will take the form of an Apprentice style challenge with mixed teams, with the task being for teams to come up with an innovative idea which will be presented to the Board in a few weeks time. The winning teams from each school will go on a cultural and business trip to France as part of the prize.

Project Name: Make Languages Your Business

Lead Institution: Twyford Church of England High School
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Sophie Da Silva
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
This project aims to develop a set of resources which helps pupils to learn more about the relevance of languages in the world of work. Pupils will learn that languages are relevant not only to become a translator or in the tourism industry, but also in a variety of fields such as the civil service, the medical sector, sales and new technologies. Pupils will engage in a range of hands-on experiences involving a number of businesses and institutions.

Project Name: On-Stream

Lead Institution: University College London
No. of Partner Institutions: 3
Project Leader: Terry King
Sector(s): Secondary/FE

Description:
Addressing the problem of the isolation of teachers in supplementary schools, this project will see collaboration between teachers of Russian from three supplementary schools, a mainstream school and a university. The aim will be to involve 7-8 teachers working with as many as 80 pupils in total. UCL will organise a workshop for teachers of Russian from the three supplementary schools and the one mainstream school. A demonstration lesson in the mainstream school for supplementary teachers will be filmed to become a resource.

Project Name:  Dovetailing online video and video editing resources with thinking skills activities to develop the personal learning of G+T pupils in key stages 4+5

Lead Institution: Middlesbrough LA School Improvement Service
No. of Partner Institutions: 5
Project Leader: Zahida Hammond
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
14-19 networks produce a replicable framework of resources designed to exemplify pupil progression from initial engagement with an online foreign language video through processing the language and concepts to achieving independently produced spoken and written outcomes, highlighting the emotional aspect of intercultural learning that is developed via the use of Thinking Skills strategies.

Project Name:  Aiming Higher in Languages

Lead Institution: Manor College of Technology, Hartlepool
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Lesley Welsh
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
Ultimately we hope to leave a legacy of a series of lessons and a plan for a special event which will help us buck the trend of low engagement in languages post-16 in Hartlepool. We would run a workshop day to begin to create a series of lessons and activities to run throughout Key Stage 4 which would meet the requests of students in a survey carried out at the beginning.

Project Name:  Teaching Language through Music

Lead Institution: Northumbria University
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Lesley Twomey
Sector(s): Primary

Description:
The University will work with Gateshead Music Service and three primary schools to bring together language learning expertise, primary pedagogy and music pedagogy. The project aims to embed language learning in the delivery of music, enabling children to create word patterns and rhythms which can be turned into new songs. The project team will work creatively together to produce aims, objectives, and taught elements for each unit of learning. The units of learning will be piloted in the partner primary schools, and their outcomes monitored and evaluated by the team.

Project Name:  Spinning a yarn 'Helps Wu Larn' - (The Geordie Way)

Lead Institution: The Dryden Centre, Gateshead
No. of Partner Institutions: 5
Project Leader: Catherine Barrett
Sector(s): Primary/ Secondary

Description:
Our main focus is to demonstrate the effectiveness of storytelling in the delivery of Languages and the links with Language and Communication in the development of Intercultural Understanding through stories. Our purpose is to make Language Learning more enjoyable and accessible and language learners more engaged and motivated. The project is centred on a large 'stories in the park day' in which year 9 students tell stories to younger pupils.

Project Name: Handing Over!

Lead Institution: Gosforth High School
No. of Partner Institutions: 11
Project Leader: Claire Dodd
Sector(s): Primary

Description:
The project aims to develop a coherent approach to the teaching of German and Italian in the Gosforth Pyramid of First Schools, Middle Schools and the High School through collaborative planning and development, and to embed the teaching of languages in the First Schools’ curriculum. The teachers will be able to access training sessions and sound files to improve their knowledge of the language of their choice, and will develop their confidence by co-teaching, practice and observations. The teachers will identify opportunities for content and language integration in other curriculum areas, so that their students can experience the use of language for real purposes.

Project Name: A drama tool kit for language teaching

Lead Institution: Théâtre Sans Frontières
No. of Partner Institutions: 7
Project Leader: Sarah Kemp
Sector(s): Primary

Description:
Artists, teachers and LA consultants will share together each other’s expertise and experiences in relation to the teaching of MFL and drama, and will work in partnership to produce a drama tool kit for primary and secondary schools. We will explore how drama techniques can support and enhance the delivery of the MFL curriculum within the KS2 and KS3 framework for languages and seek to develop a range of drama activities that can be used with children in the exploration of storytelling (both fictional and non-fictional) in French.

Project Name: Language Links

Lead Institution: Unity City Academy
No. of Partner Institutions: 3
Project Leader: Christine Jones
Sector(s): Primary/ Secondary

Description:
The project aims to build language links amongst a number of schools and amongst pupils and parents. A new scheme of work will be developed which will include active learning which is student-led and personalised e.g. planning of an event to which parents will be invited. The event will provide an opportunity for cross curricular links e.g. through Enterprise specialism of lead school. While preparing for the ‘language links’ event, French will be taught in a way that emphasises the links with English.

Project Name: Creating a Language Learning Skills Continuum

Lead Institution: Lymm High School
No. of Partner Institutions: 2
Project Leader: Helen Brook
Sector(s): Primary

Description:
The project involves collaborative planning between Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 colleagues to create stand-alone teaching and learning activities to develop pupils’ language learning skills. The learning activities will be matched up to the learning objectives in the KS2/3 Frameworks and will be able to be used with any scheme for learning.

Project Name: A Mandarin journey

Lead Institution: South Wirral High School
No. of Partner Institutions: 6
Project Leader: Catherine McCormack
Sector(s): Primary

Description:
We want to engage parents and pupils in our primary schools and community in our passion for Mandarin, and develop their understanding of Chinese culture. Students will be part of a project in primaries to learn Mandarin allied with preparing a performance of Chinese music.  This will be performed with a video link to a partner school in China to a community audience of 1,000 raising the profile of language learning in our intake for 2010.  The outcome will be Year 7 students opting to study Mandarin at Key Stage 3, with parental support.

Project Name: Once Upon a Digital Age

Lead Institution: St. Helens Local Authority
No. of Partner Institutions: 7
Project Leader: Vicky Carlin
Sector(s): Primary

Description:
The project investigates ways of exploiting storytelling to develop children’s language and ICT skills. The teachers will work with partner institutions on a range of published stories. They will develop lessons that lead to activities providing opportunities for the learners to create and perform new stories using new technologies (i.e. podcasting, film-making, animation).

Project Name: Liaisons into languages and learning

Lead Institution: Trafford Local Authority
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Lucy Remmington and Sabreena Hansraj
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
Our project is about developing cross-curricular links in our schools. It is important for us as teachers to provide opportunities within the new curriculum for pupils to see how subjects can link together. Often what they learn in one lesson is compartmentalised and its application to other subjects is lost. The main focus will be on bringing ideas together from current practice and building on them as a team. We aim to produce a flexible and sustainable cross-curricular scheme of work for languages in key stage 3. The project will enable leaders of different subjects to work together, develop professionally and spend time developing an innovative scheme of work that will be taught through other subjects as well as languages.

Project Name: Citoyens Sans Frontières

Lead Institution: Cheadle Hulme High School
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Carol Picciotto
Sector(s): Secondary/FE

Description:
In this project, approximately 30 students at Cheadle Hulme High School (CHHS) who have passed GCSE French at the end of Year 9 in 2010 will receive their Key Stage 4 Citizenship lessons through the medium of French. The project will provide a two year bridging unit whilst at the same time delivering the programme of study for Citizenship. Project partners intend to monitor the extent to which being freed up from the pressure and constraints of an external exam allows students to make more natural and possibly faster progress in the language.

Project Name: Motivation and gender across three European countries: the impact of CLIL on pupil's attitudes towards second language learning

Lead Institution: Manchester Metropolitan University
No. of Partner Institutions: 6
Project Leader: Sarah Lister
Sector(s): Primary/ Secondary

Description:
This research project aims to examine the impact of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) on pupils’ attitudes towards learning a language in primary schools and in particular to explore any differences related to gender or ethnic background. The core activities will include the planning and trialling of teaching materials and resources for the delivery of language learning through an agreed curriculum area.

Project Name: Talking sense with technology - Making the grade at GCSE

Lead Institution: St Julie's Catholic High School
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Scott Davenport
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
This project will focus on tourism in Liverpool and will build on the many developments that have taken place across the city since holding the title of European Capital of Culture 2008. Learners will produce a series of podcasts and adverts that promote Liverpool to tourist agencies from France and Spain. The project will see students from all partner schools working together to improve speaking skills in French and Spanish.

Project Name: Day of the Dead

Lead Institution: Werneth School
No. of Partner Institutions: 5
Project Leader: Paul Almeida
Sector(s): Primary/ Secondary

Description:
Working with feeder primaries, this project will develop a scheme of work and resources that Year 7 students will also use, focusing on the Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead. Students will learn basic vocabulary for emotions surrounding loss. They will then go on to form basic sentences to talk about their family members and use the past tense to talk about relatives that have passed away. From here students will build up conversational ability. In the final phase of the project, students will come to Werneth school to make their contributions to the shrine. Students will be working in French, German or Spanish depending on which best suits their primary school.

Project Name: Internationalising Enterprise - Languages and Tourism

Lead Institution: RLN North West
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Cristina Sousa
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
In collaboration with a number of businesses, pupils will promote a particular attraction, or the city of Liverpool more generally, as a tourist destination for overseas visitors. Pupils will develop original materials, including a promotional flyer, a video with voice-over or an audio guide in the relevant foreign language. Teachers will help pupils to prepare the tasks in the classroom, and the activities will be linked to the curriculum content of language lessons. Businesses involved are likely to include Culture Company, Mersey Tunnels, Mersey Ferries, National Museums Liverpool and the Metropolitan Cathedral.

Project Name: Internationalising Enterprise - Languages and Export

Lead Institution: RLN North West
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Cristina Sousa
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
Project partners will work with two businesses to enhance enterprise activity by adding an international dimension. This will focus on preparing a product or service for overseas markets, through for example a promotional campaign looking at the cultural attitudes of prospective clients or development of a flyer or packaging in the target language. Pupils will develop original texts in the foreign language, using their own perception of the relevant product/service and how it should be marketed, taking into account the different cultural attitudes of the target market. Business partners will include The Translation People and UK Trade & Investment.

Project Name: Chinese as a benchmark for making KS2 KAL and LLS work

Lead Institution: Bamboo Learning Limited
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Jill Shepherd
Sector(s):  Primary/ Secondary

Description:
The project aims to improve understanding about Knowledge about Language (KAL) and Language Learning Skills (LLS), which are strands of the Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 Frameworks for Languages, by exploring how KAL and LLS can build productive connections between Chinese and English when pupils learn Chinese. Chinese primary teachers in a group of schools will work collaboratively to develop a better understanding of the nature and value of pluri-lingual awareness in children that can be disseminated widely.

Project Name:  Cowplain languages festival

Lead Institution: Cowplain Community School, Hampshire
No. of Partner Institutions: 3
Project Leader: Graeme Sheridan
Sector(s):  Primary/ Secondary

Description:
A languages-based festival linking across the curriculum, across the age ranges and across the local community. This will be a one-day festival in the summer term, prior to transition events, where KS3 and 4 students will take over the running of classes and extra-curricular activities at a local junior school, and teach a variety of subjects in French (focussing on languages and PE). Students from the two other partners in our cluster will also be present.

Project Name:  A Place in Europe

Lead Institution: Portsmouth & South East Hampshire Education Business Partnership
No. of Partner Institutions: 15
Project Leader: Suzanne Lewis
Sector(s):  Secondary

Description:
The project provides a challenge for students working in a team to develop a relocation plan and storyboard for a family of four relocating to a country of their choice within Europe which speaks either French, German or Spanish. Business Mentors help and advise during the Challenge and a judging panel assesses the students' work.

Project Name: New GCSE speaking forum

Lead Institution: Ryde High School, Isle of Wight
No. of Partner Institutions: 5
Project Leader: Pat Suttmann
Sector(s):  Secondary

Description:
We will create an online one-stop shop for resources for teachers and students to help them with the controlled speaking assessment for the new GCSE.  This will include podcasts, blogs, and glogs as well as ideas for teaching kinaesthetic learners based on our recent ‘Study Saturdays’.

Project Name: 2.2 Millions

Lead Institution: The Isle of Sheppey Academy
No. of Partner Institutions: 2
Project Leader: Nick Mair
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
The project is based on a collaboration between Dulwich College and the Isle of Sheppey Academy. It aims to find how best to harness students' interest in order to drive language teaching and learning forward at the Academy. It will involve the design and build of solar ovens, liaising with schools abroad, and the production of real resources in French and Spanish to explain why solar ovens are helpful to both human health and the environment.

Project Name: Secondary Language Network Transition Group

Lead Institution: The Piggott School
No. of Partner Institutions: 7
Project Leader: Viki Hunt
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
The project further develops the existing transition group, comprising one representative from each partner school, with a focus on the improvement and roll out of a newly written common Year 7 transition scheme of work for French.

Project Name: Meanings that Matter - phase 1

Lead Institution: The Willink School, Berkshire
No. of Partner Institutions: 9
Project Leader: Katie Lee
Sector(s): Primary/ Secondary

Description:
A core group of schools will host a CLIL MA trainee teacher from Leipzig University who is a content-subject specialist with English. The MA student will work with a mentor (a member of the school staff) who will receive training to introduce them to CLIL prior to the visit. The student will stay for 4 weeks, teaching a short module of CLIL in German in an agreed content-subject with one or more classes.  Each school will choose the most appropriate key stage and class after discussion with the project leader. An end-of-project mini-conference will be held, where the MA students and mentors will present their resources and initial evaluation. 10 teachers from a wider group of schools targeted by the Willink CLIL Network will also be invited. 

Project Name: Understanding others; understanding ourselves

Lead Institution: University of Chichester
No. of Partner Institutions: 8
Project Leader: Elaine Minett
Sector(s): Primary/ Secondary
Description:
Teachers in six primary schools and one secondary school will share and develop expertise in relation to community cohesion, the international dimension and international linking as a focus for language learning, drawing on an area link between Tenerife and West Sussex. The project explores the relationship between intercultural understanding and the development of essential skills for learning and life. It provides opportunities for pupils to consider how they see themselves and how others see them, and to develop an appreciation of diverse backgrounds and cultures. It enables teachers to grow and learn through collaborative approaches to the delivery of intercultural understanding.

Project Name: Improving community languages provision and community cohesion in Crawley

Lead Institution: West Sussex Local Authority
No. of Partner Institutions: 6
Project Leader: Maria Roberts
Sector(s):  Primary/ Secondary

Description:
West Sussex has a long-standing programme to support youngsters speaking a home/community language and encourage them to take a GCSE in that language. In addition, there are various supplementary schools - such as Arabic, Urdu and Gujarati – which provide teaching sessions in the evenings and at weekends. Tutors in the supplementary schools are volunteers and are usually not trained teachers. Some tutors would like to keep up better with teaching styles and technology used in the mainstream schools, and the Local Authority is also keen that mainstream teachers have an opportunity to learn from the community languages tutors and form a professional partnership. The LinkedUp funding will enable us to run a training programme (based on the Open College Network) for the community languages tutors with opportunities to use technology, explore active approaches to language teaching, observe languages in mainstream schools and reflect with those mainstream teachers. Teachers in the mainstream primary and secondary schools will have direct links with the different communities to explore their values, culture and languages. We hope that the project will increase the standing of Community Languages in the Crawley area and provide concrete opportunities for community cohesion.

Project Name: Languages ladder in action

Lead Institution: The Downs School
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Alison Millar
Sector(s):  Primary

Description:
Building on the established use of Asset languages in the secondary school, the project will introduce Asset and the Languages Ladder to show progress through all stages of language learning and create a cohesive approach from KS1 to 5. The core group will share expertise to review schemes of work to reflect the interests of learners and to produce a bank of assessment resources and skill based activities. The resources will be demonstrated in the classroom and recorded, and the materials will be disseminated to other feeder primary schools and then more widely in West Berkshire.

Project Name: Languages in Business: Teachers making it real

Lead Institution: University of Southampton
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Tony Campbell
Sector(s):  Secondary

Description:
The Languages in Business: Teachers Making It Real project provides the opportunity to build on the existing collaboration between the University of Southampton, Solent EBP, schools and businesses. The overall goal of the project is to enable teachers to gain first hand experience of being in a business environment where languages are used. Action research of this sort enables teachers to highlight to students that the South Hampshire area is a key gateway for the UK and that languages are crucial to business in the area. Our challenge is to make languages real!

Project Name: Languages as an Enterprise Skill

Lead Institution: Young Chamber UK
No. of Partner Institutions: 3
Project Leader: Malcolm Lloyd
Sector(s):  Secondary/FE

Description:
We will mount a Languages Impact Activity day with employer-designed and led activities, attended by year 11 pupils from all the Isle of Wight secondary schools (target 150) to coincide with National Enterprise Week, and as a major component of the Island programme for the week. The Impact day will be followed up with a programmed sequence of structured consequential development led by the Island’s MFL Steering Group incorporating continued Employer Engagement.

Project Name: Creating a smooth pathway of progression between key stages

Lead Institution: Kennet School, Thatcham
No. of Partner Institutions: 6
Project Leader: Linda Page
Sector(s): Primary/Secondary

Description:
Leaders from each school in this project will identify for KS2 which literacy skills should become the focus and how, by sharing expertise and schemes of work, e-books (interactive big books) can be used to develop the progression of these skills. Primary and secondary colleagues will be given planning time to work together on schemes of work which involve pupils in creating materials and using new resources. The new interactive book resources created by KS3 pupils will be used in the classroom with Year 5 and 6 pupils.

Project Name:  Making PML our business!!

Lead Institution: Devonport High School for Girls, Plymouth
No. of Partner Institutions: 18
Project Leader: Elspeth Wiltshire
Sector(s): Primary/ Secondary

Description:
The project aims to increase take-up in languages by involving pupils from a wide range of schools in creating together ideas/designs for games/software/books etc. to teach languages to primary pupils.  Ideas will then be developed and resources created in curriculum time with pupils visiting partner primaries to trial their own resources.

Project Name: La Cucina D'Inferno

Lead Institution: Royal Forest of Dean College, Gloucestershire
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Jane Harvey
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
The aim of Cucina D'Inferno, is to teach Italian to year nine students in the context of Italian food. The project will involve five students from each of the three partner schools, none of whom currently learn Italian. They will start by learning some basic Italian in their schools, and then will spend four days at the Royal Forest of Dean College using their Italian in the kitchen under the guidance of our celebrity chef, Franco Taruschio OBE. We plan to assess their language skills in the workplace via NVQ language units at level 1. We will create specifically targeted language materials and through the expertise of one of our partners, involve creativity in language learning.

Project Name:  Bodproj: increasing pupil numbers at KS4 languages

Lead Institution: Bodmin College, Cornwall
No. of Partner Institutions: 2
Project Leader: Lorette Esteve
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
We will work with the language and science departments at the University of Plymouth and local employers to improve the uptake of GCSE French. The project will build on our success in encouraging pupils to opt for separate science at Bodmin (now increased to 40%) and use university pupils and employers to explain the importance of French to our pupils through a range of workshop activities. We will partner and support Redruth School to help them to improve KS4 uptake as well.

Project Name: Histoires sans paroles

Lead Institution: Parkstone Grammar School, Dorset
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Karen Riding
Sector(s): Primary/ Secondary

Description:
The project will encourage pupils to develop their spoken skills through the use of image as a stimulus. The project will use books that have no words as a stimulus for spoken work and also build a 'boîte à phrases' toolkit for students to help them to respond in different situations, with the emphasis on creative use of language.

Project Name: Professional communication in MFL

Lead Institution: St. Peter's C of E Aided School, Exeter
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Alison Sykes
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
The project aims to improve speaking skills in French and German by using video-conferencing with students and businesses in Europe and the UK to sell a product or service. The project will help teachers to develop expertise in the use of video conferencing from a technical and pedagogical point of view. The use of technology and using language for a real purpose should promote enjoyment and engagement, and support schools in building languages into work-related learning 14-19.

Project Name: The Froggies et les Rosbifs

Lead Institution: The Ridgeway School, Swindon
No. of Partner Institutions: 3
Project Leader: Helen Dixon
Sector(s):  Secondary

Description:
Pupils from the schools in England and France will rehearse and present different fables, and when in a face to face environment will work collaboratively on an original 'fable' to explore the stereotypes of the English and the French and to celebrate differences. This will be begun and rehearsed in Swindon in March and rehearsed and performed in Poitiers in June. The combined fable 'Les Froggies et les Rosbifs' will be in both languages and will reflect personal experiences of the pupils during the project.

Project Name: Story making in French / German / Spanish

Lead Institution: International Learning and Research Centre
No. of Partner Institutions: 1
Project Leader: Josephine Cole
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
The International Learning and Research Centre’s Key Stage 3 Innovation Group will engage with the Story Making in Key Stage 3 project which will prioritise the development of pupils’ skills, confidence and independence in speaking, including opportunities to use language creatively in a range of contexts. Stories, created collaboratively by teachers in the project, will provide the context for the language learning. The aim will be to increase pupil engagement, improve linguistic progression and increase participation in language learning post-14. Teachers will work creatively to produce a Story Making in French toolkit which will promote progression. Different models of integration in schemes of work will emerge from school-based trials. Clarity about when language conventions and structures are taught and how they link to the stories will be important.

Project Name: Guidelines for the provision of successful MFL teaching and Learning in KS3

Lead Institution: Cornwall Association of Secondary Headteachers (CASH)
No. of Partner Institutions: 5
Project Leader: Geofff Grigg
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
We will survey the provision for MFL across all 31 secondary schools in Cornwall, at KS3 and KS4 with particular regard to take-up and attainment. We will then establish a working group of heads, senior teachers i/c curriculum, and heads of languages to share the concerns of language teachers at KS3 vis à vis the whole curriculum, to analyse curriculum models and to reach a consensus on issues such as assessment and target setting. This group will meet on a regular basis and gather curriculum models for KS3 from schools participating in the project. We will carry out learning visits to selected schools to look at classroom practice, visiting schools outside the county on the recommendation of the mentor. We will write up the results as guidance and case studies which we will disseminate through launch conferences and websites.

Project Name: Inspiring Language

Lead Institution: Hayle Community School (Language College)
No. of Partner Institutions: 3
Project Leader: Clayton Hughes
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
We will identify core language and create dialogues which can be used in four three-minute films and four trails welcoming young foreign students to Truro Cathedral. The films and trails will come with teaching notes so that they can be used in the classroom to support the curriculum and encourage further peer to peer learning projects. To build confidence, students will take part in an innovative opera / drama workshop and will work with a film company and professional illustrator to develop the skills necessary to produce a high quality outcome. We will also create a short film sharing our teaching and learning strategy so that other teachers and visitor venues can imitate our project.

Project Name: Languages for life

Lead Institution: Katharine Lady Berkeley's School
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Joanne Godfrey
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
We will devise several schemes of work for mini projects for the less able, focussing on the CLIL approach to language learning, i.e. learning about science/ geography/ art etc through languages. The project will also involve upskilling T.A.’s in French and language teaching methods to be able to lead small groups and plan differentiated activities.

Project Name: Kernewek rag doll - Cornish for all

Lead Institution: Maga - Cornish Language Partnership
No. of Partner Institutions: 5
Project Leader: Mike Tresidder
Sector(s): Primary/Secondary

Description:
In our scheme, school teachers act as mentor or ‘critical friend’ to community educators of Cornish and the community educators act as a language coach to the school teacher. The opportunities will come about from both partners team teaching Cornish language sessions in school. The school teachers will improve their knowledge of Cornish under the guidance of the community educator, as well as learning with the school children. Both the teacher and community educator will keep reflective practice diaries which will include focussed reflection on personal development and the collection of qualitative and quantitive data regarding the school students' progression in learning Cornish.

Project Name: Languages means business

Lead Institution: Treviglas College
No. of Partner Institutions: 3
Project Leader: Julie Whelan
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
We/our students will forge a link with a business local to each school. We will encourage this business to see the benefit of using the foreign language in some of their publicity material/website to attract future customers, and provide data which evidences this benefit. Teachers will meet to plan and share ideas to devise a series of lessons which ensure that the learners produce a finished product, which the learners will present to the employer. We will share these materials so that they will be of benefit to other teachers within the UK.

Project Name: Water water everywhere

Lead Institution: Gloucestershire International Education Office, Gloucestershire LA
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Linda Owen
Sector(s): Primary

Description:
We will look at all aspects of the curriculum where the theme of water comes in, and base a primary languages ‘spiral curriculum’ on this theme. We will develop language teaching activities which are linked to this theme, and the curriculum content and the language will become more complex and sophisticated as the children go up through the years. The work will link with areas of the curriculum such as science (states of matter, forces, requirements for life), geography (the water cycle, features of rivers and coasts), art (marbling, art work inspired by water), literacy (non-fiction, fiction, poetry), PSHE (personal hygiene, water safety), RE (symbolism of water), mathematics (volume, capacity, data-handling), music (music inspired by water, composition), PE (dance, swimming). We will develop materials which support intercultural understanding and the global dimension: we may look, for example, at access to clean water in different parts of the world.

Project Name: Kingswood Partnership International Internships for Students

Lead Institution: Sir Bernard Lovell School
No. of Partner Institutions: 5
Project Leader: Ruth Bennett
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
MFL co-ordinators from across the Kingswood Partnership will collaborate with subject leaders in order to identify the language and cultural awareness needs of students being placed on internships with organisations abroad. This group of staff will review resources currently available and will produce a toolkit which will be available to students in taught sessions and on-line. The two dimensions to the toolkit will be materials i) to enhance cultural awareness and ii) to develop students’ languages skills. An audit of students’ knowledge and skills will lead into differentiated materials in the four main languages delivered across the Partnership. The planning phase will involve close working with our current business partners, such as GKN, Airbus, Rolls Royce, S&B Automotive Academy, Smurfitt Kappa, Dupont, ISG Pearce, AXA, RBS, Hilton and Marriott Hotels. The KP Work-Related Learning Co-ordinator will oversee the planning for the students’ placements and will broker discussions with the employers. The Curriculum Leader for Internationalism at Sir Bernard Lovell School will also be part of the project team, bringing her expertise in overseeing links with foreign countries and student visits abroad. Students and employers will be involved in evaluating the toolkit, which will be reviewed for use by subsequent cohorts of students. The toolkit will be available for wider dissemination from Spring 2011.

Project Name: A Tale of Three Cities

Lead Institution: Peasdown St John Primary School
No. of Partner Institutions: 5
Project Leader: Belinda King
Sector(s): Primary/Secondary

Description:
This project is collaboration between three very different schools across the country. Each school will use a shared resource pack from which to adapt a story script, each creating an original performance, adding their own local dimension according to their community and languages spoken. Through recordings, children will have the opportunity to reflect and share virtually their language learning experiences and to compare the languages spoken as well as their language learning strategies. Once rehearsed, each tale will be filmed, shared and evaluated, giving the children speaking and listening opportunities, drawing from resources created by themselves in a range of languages. Performances will be staged in front of each community audience, and will include a local live performance plus ‘premiere screenings’ of the other two stories.

Project Name: CLIL in Humanities Scheme of Work

Lead Institution: Pilton Community College
No. of Partner Institutions: 3
Project Leader: Karen Cassar
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
The aim of the project is to build cross-curricular links and use target languages for real communication. Each school will prepare and trial a sequence of lessons in the target language, delivered by non-languages staff. Sample lessons will be recorded for evaluation and review by colleagues across the schools. After this phase a final meeting will take place to review and evaluate all material produced and the lead teacher will provide an overview of successful techniques trialled and the collated materials.

Project Name: Sharing best practice for teaching beginners' Japanese

Lead Institution: St Gregory's Catholic College
No. of Partner Institutions: 2
Project Leader: Lydia Morey
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
Teachers leading this project will co-operate to develop a scheme of work suitable for delivering the ABC Level 3 qualification in Japanese. A simple website will be set up to enable colleagues to easily access the scheme of work, materials, trial them and send in their opinions and feedback. Teaching materials will be developed and trialled with small groups of students in the two partner institutions. The best ideas for teaching this course will be collated, and results will be shared with colleagues teaching Japanese.

Project Name: Music is the rhythm of our lives

Lead Institution: St Mary's Primary School
No. of Partner Institutions: 2
Project Leader: Brigid Price
Sector(s): Primary/Secondary

Description:
Using music and maths as common themes to link three different schools, the purpose of this project is to develop ways for students of different ages to work together to improve the transition for KS2 students into KS3, to encourage more students to engage in languages at KS4 and to raise the status of language learning at an early age. For example, students will mix language and music in a variety of ways which will include French and English students working together to produce a music video for broadcast on the school intranet.

Project Name:  Ensuring Successful Transition from KS4 to KS5

Lead Institution: Language Networks for Excellence, University of Wolverhampton
No. of Partner Institutions: 3
Project Leader: Helen Sargeant
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
The project aims to facilitate successful transition and progression for students studying a language at KS4 in a school environment to KS5 at a sixth form college.  Elements include teacher and student events and the creation of online and written resources which have huge potential for wide dissemination and replicability.

Project Name: Little steps in languages for little learners

Lead Institution: Herefordshire Local Authority
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Rosalind Venables
Sector(s): Primary

Description:
Teachers will create story packs which will provide a host of resources which can be used in a cross-curricular way in Key Stage 1.  The story packs will provide teachers’ notes and guidance for lesson delivery which will introduce teachers to language learning pedagogy.  The teachers’ notes will provide links to other areas of the curriculum and guidance for how they can be exploited in this way.

Project Name: Web-based teachers pack (in 3 community languages from: Punjabi, Arabic, Urdu, Chinese, Polish

Lead Institution: Language Networks for Excellence, University of Wolverhampton
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Emilia Quaranta
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
The aim of the project is to encourage a new network of schools (and Local Authorities) to work together to produce a culture and language resource pack for some of the community languages. The resource aims to raise awareness of community languages and their culture and it will be led and produced mainly by students to encourage participation and motivation. A pack containing resources to lead 3 sessions to introduce pupils to a new community language, interactive presentations, teacher’s notes and activity guidelines will be made available on a web space.

Project Name: Gestures to Support Learning in Key Stage 1

Lead Institution: Northleigh CE Primary School, Worcestershire
No. of Partner Institutions: 3
Project Leader: Jo Vizor
Sector(s): Primary

Description:
Using British Sign Language as a set of existing and uniform gestures, we will use the theme of animals to develop a range of responses from children in Key stage 1. Using agreed vocabulary, teachers will use their expertise to develop teaching sequences.  The lesson plans and teacher reflections will be shared on a virtual learning space.

Project Name: Literacy-led modern languages teaching

Lead Institution: Solihull MBC (Local Authority)
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Suzanne Webster
Sector(s): Primary

Description:
We will develop literacy-led language learning units that focus on and directly support the learning outcomes and content of the related literacy units that children are studying. We will trial the units in schools and investigate how simpler building blocks for language learning can support and extend progression in literacy for  less able or disengaged pupils, leading to the development of a 'modern language style literacy toolkit'.

Project Name: Culture Unlimited

Lead Institution: St. Peter's C of E Aided School & International Language College, Stoke-on-Trent
No. of Partner Institutions: 5
Project Leader: Shirley Kliment-Temple
Sector(s): Secondary/FE

Description:
Culture Unlimited aims to be a children-led multimedia company celebrating the rich cultural and linguistic diversity of Stoke-on-Trent. The company will create a collection of multimedia resources encouraging language learning, which would be accessible to all the community. The project aims to encourage wider educational participation and improve cultural understanding.

Project Name: Using CLIL to tackle transition issues: developing capacity within the partnership

Lead Institution: University of Worcester
No. of Partner Institutions: 8
Project Leader: Chris Robertson / Isabele Schafer
Sector(s): Primary/ Secondary

Description:
The project will involve four secondary schools each working with a partner primary school.  All the teachers involved are mentors for trainee language teachers at the University of Worcester, and some trainees will participate in the project during their teaching practice. The mentor partners will attend a training session on transition issues and CLIL in the Spring Term and will work collaboratively to develop a PSHE scheme of work to be taught through the foreign language. Each 'mini-cluster' will choose a theme and develop 8 lessons, 4 for year 6 pupils and 4 for year 7.

Project Name: Links across the pyramid

Lead Institution: Droitwich Spa High School
No. of Partner Institutions: 3
Project Leader: Jo Vicary
Sector(s): Primary/Secondary

Description:
The project aims to improve communication and cohesion through closer working relationships across the pyramid and by sharing expertise in teaching strategies and subject knowledge. Throughout the project teachers from each school, including the 9 primary schools in our pyramid, will be encouraged to visit and observe colleagues delivering MFL elsewhere. Some visits will specifically enable teachers to prepare their final year pupils more effectively for transition. The middle schools will organise a festival of languages for pupils in their final year of primary school and identify gifted and talented students with whom high school students can work on a collaborative project. It is envisaged that middle school colleagues will get to know the pupils prior to transition, have a greater understanding of their attainment and be aware of any specific issues relating to their intake. We hope to provide other schools that are in the early stages of addressing transition issues with an account of the processes we undertake, which may be used as a basis for an action plan elsewhere. We will publish our agreed topic and grammar contents and will make available video clips of successful language teaching activities. We will also provide ideas for joint languages events, should other schools wish to replicate them.

Project Name: Fashion International

Lead Institution: Integra Project Management Ltd T/A Regional Language Network West Midlands
No. of Partner Institutions: 5
Project Leader: Chris Everall
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
“Fashion International” gives year 9 students an insight into the exciting world of international fashion and how being able to speak foreign languages can offer improved work prospects and greater opportunities for personal development. The project brings together Kim Knowles, a fashion industry expert, and five very different schools from across the West Midlands. Kim will tell students about his own experiences in the fashion industry and how he has benefited from being able to speak French and Danish: travelling the world and gaining an MBE from the Queen. The schools will develop and trial modules of work based on real life work situations, using authentic fashion content in French. Students will work towards the final activity, producing their own fashion magazine and/or staging their own fashion show. The students may also submit their projects into an all-school competition which will be judged by Kim Knowles.

Project Name: Developing intercultural understanding through spontaneous talk

Lead Institution: The Priory School
No. of Partner Institutions: 5
Project Leader: Lucy Kelly
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
Our group will be looking at how to increase student spontaneous talk in the target language, focussing on Year 8 in the first instance. We will be using pictures and photographs as a prompt for speech, encouraging students to give opinions, descriptions and creative ideas in the target language. Many of these pictures will also have a cultural angle to increase cultural knowledge and understanding of the target language country. This will also prepare students for the oral component of the new GCSE exam. There will be six schools involved in the project and we intend to use the funding to enable us to observe each other and do some team teaching. We would also like to involve Foreign Language Assistants and share good practice with them so that they can build on the work done in the classroom and further improve students’ oral skills and confidence.

Project Name: French phonics to phrases - A reading scheme for Key Stage 2

Lead Institution: St Lawrence CE Primary School
No. of Partner Institutions: 3
Project Leader: Jane Somerville
Sector(s): Primary/Secondary

Description:
Our project involves three Shropshire primary schools and a secondary school. We aim to develop an innovative, yet simple resource for developing learners’ reading skills in French at Key Stage 2, with the principal aim of helping learners develop an understanding and knowledge of French phonic-grapheme correspondence. This introductory reading scheme will use phonics cards for pupils to progress through individually, outside of the main French lesson thus providing a creative way of embedding languages through the school week. The initiative will also involve the wider school community wherever possible, with parent volunteers and support staff listening to pupils read their phonics cards.

Project Name: 24 Hours in Shropshire

Lead Institution: Integra Project Management
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Chris Everall
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
Project partners will work together with award-winning local employer the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust to highlight the importance of language skills in the Shropshire tourism sector. The project will develop a bank of inspiring work-based teaching resources to help pupils develop their language skills in this sector; and give pupils the opportunity to produce their own foreign language marketing materials to promote Shropshire to young international visitors by describing the perfect “24 hours in Shropshire”.

Project Name: Taking Steps towards CLIL

Lead Institution: Aston University
No. of Partner Institutions: 3
Project Leader: Sue Garton/Fiona Copland
Sector(s): Secondary/FE

Description:
The aim of this project is to develop a model to support teachers who would like to introduce CLIL into their teaching but who are not sure of the practical steps they need to take. Following lesson observation and planning of teaching units, all project participants will come together at Aston University to share and discuss what they did and plan how they will develop the programme in the long term and in a sustainable way.

Project Name: Incognito

Lead Institution: Leek High Specialist Technology School
No. of Partner Institutions: 2
Project Leader: Alan Greene
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
The aim of this project is to design, develop and produce a language game which will allow students to work their way through various countries whilst travelling “incognito” as spies. Activities will include creating false passports in various languages, inventing codes to decipher secret messages in specified languages and making a presentation as part of the final “debriefing” session at the end of the game. The overarching intention and purpose of the Project is to provide greater cohesion between the two school communities and to improve transition between the schools.

Project Name: Language learning stories: the impact of self assessment on the learning and teaching of languages

Lead Institution: Solihull Local Authority
No. of Partner Institutions: 5
Project Leader: Fi Cotton
Sector(s): Primary

Description:
This project will create a small learning community to explore the possibilities and opportunities for pupil self-assessment in languages from KS2 through to KS3. The partners in the project will come together as a learning community to coach each other and share ideas, which involves training in 'Philosophy for Children' as it could enable teachers to begin to train pupils to think more critically about their learning in languages and beyond. Pupils and teachers will work collaboratively to find ways to capture language learning 'stories': milestones, barriers, challenges, strategies, areas of enjoyment etc, and define a progression in this strand that underpins the outcomes in the KS2 and renewed KS3 framework for languages.

Project Name: A Place in Europe Challenge

Lead Institution: Stourport High School and Sixth Form Centre
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Mike Westwood
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
Project partners will work collaboratively with local schools and a partner school in France to promote the importance of language learning and the future career opportunities available. The final outcome of the project will be a group of students from each school delivering presentations to partners from local employers requesting start-up sponsorship for their 'business'. The 'business' will be a company organising relocation packages for families who wish to move to France, Germany or Spain. The competitive nature of the project, as well as the raised awareness of the importance of languages, alongside the skills developed in public speaking, will have a significant impact on learners’ motivation.

Project Name: Talking Matters

Lead Institution: Tide Global
No. of Partner Institutions: 5
Project Leader: Jackie Zammit
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
In this project, a teacher from each of the partner institutions will meet twice in autumn 2010 and twice in spring 2011 to discuss global learning. Ideas generated for teaching modules at each session will be trialled in school. Young people involved will begin to have confidence to talk about real issues that matter to them, in a foreign language and with young people in their partner schools. Learners' linguistic progression will be demonstrated by means which may include for example use of posters or podcasts.

Project Name: Wharfedale French & Spanish Community Reading Project

Lead Institution: All Saints CE Primary School, Ilkley
No. of Partner Institutions: 5
Project Leader: Catherine Cheater
Sector(s): Primary

Description:
The LinkedUp group, together with other schools in the cluster that would like to participate, will develop a community-based approach to support children’s French or Spanish reading skills. This will involve training “Reading Mentors” who are able to work with small groups of children during curriculum time. The Reading Mentors will be parents with existing expertise in the language, as well as some Year 9 students from the local secondary school.

Project Name: CLIL (a more cross curricular approach to KS3)

Lead Institution: Hayfield School, Doncaster
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Caroline Linnell
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
Our main aim is to use a variety of teaching and learning approaches to engage and motivate students and to maximise the impact on their learning; working as a team to produce exciting lesson resources based on cross-curricular themes. Our partner schools have experienced and enthusiastic teachers who would like the opportunity to collaborate and use each others’ expertise and ideas to plan language lessons, which will excite and delight the students. We will try our new ideas out on classes of our choice, with a view to rolling it out to the whole of Year 7 and beyond once we have reviewed and refined our ideas.

Project Name: Madagascar

Lead Institution: Swinton Community School, Rotherham
No. of Partner Institutions: 1
Project Leader: Emma Henderson
Sector(s): Primary/ Secondary

Description:
This is a cross curricular, cross phase project to develop innovative approaches to integrating a range of curriculum areas in order for pupils in vertical groups to work collaboratively to develop a variety of skills.  Peer coaching with pupils will be used to support learners in developing knowledge, skills & understanding across a range of subjects which seek to develop pupils understanding of inter-cultural issues & language learning strategies.

Project Name: A New Approach to Y7+: Continuity, Creativity, Culture

Lead Institution: King Edward VII School and Language College, Sheffield
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Eva Lamb
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
The project will develop teaching strategies and schemes of work at Key Stage 3 which build on learning at Key Stage 2; address the needs of mixed experience classes; are based on meaningful content; develop personal, learning and thinking skills; and allow for the use of creativity.

Project Name: KS4/5 Transition project - to include as its lead project a 3 day summer school called "UK 1 minute, innit!"

Lead Institution: Brinsworth Comprehensive School
No. of Partner Institutions: 5
Project Leader: Nicola Harris-Jukes
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
The project aims to help students gain an awareness of the linguistic challenges at A-Level and to give them the confidence that they can meet them. Building on a Routes into Languages project last year, we will research and share best practice in A level teaching and establish a common understanding of progression issues from GCSE to A level. This will lead to an A level Teaching Guide/Framework which will form the basis for a 3 day Summer School transition project for year 11 students after GCSE. They will produce one-minute spoof films in French, German or Spanish about their national identity as UK citizens, which will be screened by a local cinema.

Project Name: Industry and languages exchange

Lead Institution: Queensbury School
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Rahila Hussain and Sandra Potesta
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
The project aims to increase pupils' knowledge of the application of languages in a business context, to increase their cultural awareness and encourage them to continue with their language learning. The project involves a number of Young Enterprise Business Language Days with a Young Enterprise Language Entrepreneurship Master Class. The activities will concentrate on developing a ‘Can you do business in …..?’ business plan, to include a a business scenario in which students choose a location, design their product and the company name and logo, design a business card and prepare a presentation. Finalists present to a Dragons' Den panel. The Language Ambassadors will act as mentors to individual groups and the Business Language Champions will act as Dragon Den’s judges.

Project Name: Languages for football

Lead Institution: RLNYH Limited
No. of Partner Institutions: 1
Project Leader: Liz Littler
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
Building on an existing collaboration, the project aims to raise the profile of languages within schools currently working with Sheffield Wednesday Football Club and Sheffield Football Club where languages are not necessarily a priority subject. Students and teachers will learn about Corporate Social Responsibility, an emerging trend in the business world, and the students will improve their research and presentation skills in the foreign language. Students from the partner schools will work in groups to put together an action plan for the research, conduct the telephone or email research with football clubs overseas, and compile a presentation for the final event. The event will involve the groups presenting their findings, will raise awareness about corporate social responsibility and its benefits, and will be a dissemination event for the project. Prizes will be awarded for the best presentation and a reward for all participating students will be donated by Sheffield Wednesday Football Club.

Project Name: Community Languages Accreditation through Intensive Courses (CoLa Intensive)

Lead Institution: Silverdale School & Language College
No. of Partner Institutions: 3
Project Leader: Catherine Henderson
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
Our aim is to work collaboratively to research and explore the particular issues related to intensive language courses. This project will attempt to develop methods of baseline assessment for heritage speakers whilst developing an intensive course with detailed lesson plans and accompanying resources which build from the baseline to terminal assessment via the Language Ladder and accreditation via Asset at Intermediate level. Also, the project will ensure the course can be properly evaluated and replicated by producing a generic model as well as the Arabic language version of the pilot course. Finally, the aim is to thoroughly evaluate the course and amend the generic model accordingly.

Project Name: French know-how

Lead Institution: Leeds Trinity University College
No. of Partner Institutions: 4
Project Leader: Valerie Harkness
Sector(s): Secondary/FE

Description:
We have chosen to create a course in French for business suitable for Year 8 pupils. The reason we have focused on Year 8s is that one of our aims is to motivate pupils to opt for languages at Key Stage 4. The course will last between 6 and 8 weeks and will focus on the development of intercultural competence and in the use of French in the business world. Participants include business people who will share with us their experience of working with their counterparts in foreign countries and in particular in French speaking countries. There will also be intercultural experts who will contribute their perspectives on intercultural competence to the course. The MFL teachers and PGCE trainees will bring their expertise, their knowledge of the classroom and of the curriculum to the design/planning of the course and of its resources. Peter Cummings, our project mentor, has offered to discuss ideas with us and give advice.

Project Name: Leeds - Talked Up

Lead Institution: Royds School Specialist Language College
No. of Partner Institutions: 6
Project Leader: Louise Crossley
Sector(s): Secondary

Description:
This project explores ways of encouraging pupils to talk in the target language in the classroom, including training, invited guest speakers and mutual lesson observation. The second phase trials a range of techniques to record pupils' experiences including Group Talk and videos. A package of resources will be disseminated with the aim of developing pupils’ linguistic independence and also increasing their confidence and enjoyment.