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A new approach to Y7+: Continuity, Creativity, Culture
This project developed strategies to encourage students to share their learning and become less dependent on the teacher. It also developed lesson plans to illustrate how lesson content can become more engaging through links to other subjects, Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills (PLTS) and Intercultural Understanding.
- Theme: Transition
- Keywords: CLIL, French, Intercultural understanding, Personal learning and thinking skills, Phonics, Spanish, Transition
- Sector: Primary/Secondary
The evolution of language learning through science
In this project language and science teachers collaborated to put together a unit of work for students to learn science through French and/or German. This motivated students, promoted active learning and developed teachers’ expertise as curriculum leaders.
- Theme: CLIL
- Keywords: CLIL, Engaging hard-to-reach pupils, French, German, Science
- Sector: Primary/Secondary
Understanding others, understanding ourselves
This project provided opportunities for pupils to develop essential skills through the context of festivals and culture in France and the Canary Islands. Underpinned by strong partnerships with link schools abroad, authentic contexts enabled pupils to engage in investigative, independent and collaborative ways of working.
- Theme: Intercultural understanding
- Keywords: CLIL, Drama, French, Intercultural understanding, International links, Multimedia, film, music and radio, Spanish
- Sector: Primary/Secondary
Madagascar
Cross-curricular/phase project to develop innovative approaches to integrating a range of curriculum areas, enabling pupils in vertical groupings to work collaboratively to develop a variety of skills, including language learning strategies and understanding intercultural issues. Peer coaching with pupils is used to support learners.
Meanings that Matter
Short CLIL modules for secondary pupils, planned and taught by trainee teachers (CLIL MA students) from Leipzig University in collaboration with their mentors in six host schools, with observers from Reading and Oxford Brooks Universities. Subjects were Maths, Science, Citizenship and Music. The project incorporated CLIL training elements for mentors.
- Theme: CLIL
- Keywords: CLIL, German, International links, Multimedia, film, music and radio, PSHE and citizenship, Science
- Sector: Secondary
Using CLIL to tackle transition issues: developing capacity within the partnership
The project involved four Secondary school languages mentors and three Primary school mentors. Mentors attended a session on transition issues and CLIL in the Spring term. They developed a CLIL PSHE scheme of work in the Autumn term and they taught pupils PSHE through French.
- Theme: CLIL
- Keywords: CLIL, French, PSHE and citizenship, Transition
- Sector: Primary/Secondary
Handing Over!
Language acquisition, modelling and collaborative planning sessions helped teachers of Years three and four to gain confidence in delivering stimulating teaching of German or Italian in their classes. INSET included an evaluation of CLIL pedagogy, encouraging teachers to develop and embed target language activities in the Key Stage 2 curriculum.
- Theme: CLIL
- Keywords: CLIL, German, ICT and technologies, Italian, Multimedia, film, music and radio, Storytelling
- Sector: Primary
Water water everywhere
Resources to enrich French teaching in the primary classroom. Materials incorporate more sophisticated language and curriculum content as the children get older. Links are made to most areas of the curriculum for most age groups, and all the ideas can easily be adapted for mixed-age classes and to aid differentiation.
- Theme: CLIL
- Keywords: CLIL, French, Literacy, Multimedia, film, music and radio, PSHE and citizenship, Science, Transition
- Sector: Primary
Humanities through French
This project gave students the opportunity to learn French within a subject specific context, enabling them to use language for an immediately functional purpose. It also allowed teachers to develop confidence in language skills.
On the snail trail
‘On the Snail Trail’ aims to capture language learning in Key Stage 2 and put it into a meaningful context. CLIL methodology is explored for French, Spanish, German and Italian, through mathematics based on a story book and exploring the evolution of snails in science.
- Theme: CLIL
- Keywords: CLIL, French, German, Italian, Science, Spanish, Storytelling, Transition
- Sector: Primary/Secondary
Taking Steps Towards CLIL
This project aimed to introduce a new model of collaboration in CLIL by bringing together ‘expert’ practitioners of CLIL in German and French in an experienced CLIL school, with ‘novice’ teachers who wish to introduce CLIL in German and French into their classrooms. In order to support the development of learning materials and classroom language, native speaker teachers of German and French from Aston University worked with the novice teachers.
This is our world
This project explored different ways to re-root language teaching in a far richer cultural context than has previously been offered. It provided opportunities for pupils and teachers to deepen their knowledge, awareness and understanding of a variety of intercultural themes through a range of stimulating and relevant resources.
- Theme: Intercultural understanding
- Keywords: CLIL, French, Intercultural understanding, Personal learning and thinking skills, PSHE and citizenship
- Sector: Secondary
Fabriquons un orchestre!
In this project French is used to deliver a Year 5 Unit of Design & Technology (Musical instruments) with cross-curricular links to Science and Music. The aim is twofold: to see how far language can be consolidated and developed through CLIL and to gauge teacher and pupil response to this approach.
A Tale of Three Cities
Three diverse primary schools across the country created a filmed performance of a traditional tale, each incorporating their own elements of local culture and language. The tale was adapted, rehearsed, filmed and evaluated, with performances staged in front of a community audience including ‘premiere screenings’ of the other two tales.
- Theme: CLIL
- Keywords: CLIL, Community cohesion, Cornish, Drama, French, Home Languages, ICT and technologies, Less commonly taught languages, Multimedia, film, music and radio, Storytelling
- Sector: Primary
Languages for Life
The project was aimed at lower ability pupils in Key Stage 3. The intention was to re-engage through interactive lessons using CLIL methodology. There was a big focus on building oracy, listening and reading skills. There are four modules comprising six lessons. The topics are Music, Drama, Sport and French Culture.
2,2 Millions – Solar ovens can save lives
2.2 million people die every year because they breathe in the smoke from cooking fires. Solar ovens use the rays of the sun to cook food and are helpful to both human health and the environment. CLIL motivates students and there is a balance here between human interest and technology that appeals to both sexes.
A Drama Toolkit for Language Teaching
This project set out to create a Drama Toolkit for Language Teaching by creating a series of drama activities designed to enthuse, encourage, excite and challenge pupils in the context of traditional French stories from the Caribbean (primary) and the life and work of Marie Curie (secondary).
- Theme: CLIL
- Keywords: CLIL, Drama, French, Storytelling
- Sector: Primary/Secondary
Teaching Language Through Music
The project involves use of French sounds and rhyming words, enabling children to learn correct pronunciation through use of music and movement, intonation patterns, phonics, engaging them in music and memory activities. It also leads to composition and performing as a group using French.
- Theme: CLIL
- Keywords: CLIL, Drama, French, Intensive language learning, Multimedia, film, music and radio, Phonics
- Sector: Primary
Citoyens sans Frontières
This CLIL Project involved the teaching of the Year 10 Citizenship curriculum through the medium of French to provide a bridging unit for students who had achieved grade C or better in GCSE taken at the end of their Year 9 fast track course.
- Theme: CLIL
- Keywords: CLIL, French, PSHE and citizenship, Transition
- Sector: Secondary/FE
Motivation and gender across three European countries: the impact of CLIL on pupil's attitudes towards second language learning
This research project examines the impact of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) on pupils’ attitudes towards learning a language in primary schools and in particular explores any differences related to gender or ethnic background.
- Theme: CLIL
- Keywords: CLIL, Engaging hard-to-reach pupils, French, Intercultural understanding, International links, Spanish
- Sector: Primary
Languages and the Olympics
This project involved primary and secondary pupils, three primary teachers, three secondary teachers, including two PE specialists, and two Primary Languages Outreach teachers. The idea was to collaborate to develop Olympics-related resources in French and Spanish and activities which would provide opportunities for active learning and could be led by secondary and primary-aged pupils.
- Theme: Transition
- Keywords: CLIL, French, Language leaders / peer-to-peer learning, Spanish, Sport, Transition
- Sector: Primary/Secondary
Day of the Dead
With the Mexican festival of ‘The Day of the Dead’ as our inspiration, we created a scheme of work which encouraged language teaching through Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) activities, and championed the Global Citizen agenda through cross-curricular links. Following from this we engaged Key Stage 2 students with Key Stage 3 language learners to work towards bridging the languages transition gap.
- Theme: Intercultural understanding
- Keywords: CLIL, Drama, Intercultural understanding, Multimedia, film, music and radio, Spanish, Transition
- Sector: Primary/Secondary
CLIL Resources Project
We aimed to use the expertise of our Creative and Media Students to set up a student-run company to produce materials for use in primary and secondary schools to teach other subjects, particularly PSHE and Geography, in French and German. These materials will include short films of our work at Chenderit.
- Theme: CLIL
- Keywords: CLIL, Enterprise, French, German, PSHE and citizenship, Work-related learning
- Sector: Primary/Secondary
French CLIL Projects
This project has developed CLIL cross-curricular units of work in French. The units are designed to be delivered by French teachers and teachers from other curriculum areas. The units are in history (French Norman Conquest), drama (The Pearl Necklace - use of voice and gesture) and art (Seurat and pointillism).
Once upon a digital age
Do you want to deliver language learning objectives and ICT objectives through storytelling? Here you will find units of work in French and Spanish. They could easily be adapted for use in other languages and for other year groups.
- Theme: CLIL
- Keywords: CLIL, French, ICT and technologies, Multimedia, film, music and radio, Spanish, Storytelling
- Sector: Primary
