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Ensuring successful transition from KS4 to KS5
The project aimed to facilitate successful transition and progression for students studying a language at KS4 in a school environment to KS5 at a sixth form college and provide opportunities for teaching staff to better understand the requirements of GCSE, AS and A2, where applicable.
- Theme: Transition
- Keywords: Assessment, Chinese, Employer engagement, French, German, Spanish, Transition
- Sector: Secondary/FE
Creative projects in languages
Outside clients commissioned a product requiring the use of the foreign language, and pupils delivered the product, 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 analysed to what extent their curriculum is supportive of pupil creativity and independence.
Talking to Learn
This project foregrounds 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 we aim to improve learners’ confidence and ability in, and creativity with, spoken language.
Making primary languages our business
A community of schools collaborated to engage reluctant and more committed language learners who designed language resources for primary, learned about methodology, planned lessons, and trialled them in partner primary schools. As a transition project this also provided opportunities for further language skills acquisition for primary languages teachers.
Backstage
Backstage is based on international film and music festivals. The students research the festival world and then use the target language creatively to promote, organise and star in their own festival.
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
New GCSE Speaking Forum
A forum for teachers preparing students for the controlled speaking assessment of the new AQA GCSE in French, German, Spanish and Italian. The forum contains podcasts and learning materials in various formats to help teachers encourage students and increase their confidence in preparing for the speaking test, by using modern media.
Real Communication in Modern Languages
This project has explored the use of video-conferencing between schools in Exeter and schools in France and Germany with 3 focal points: practice for GCSE; discussion of current affairs at AS and A level; links with a local business for vocational languages. Conferences between teachers allowed quick planning meetings.
A Place in Europe Language Challenge
Students from years 8 and 9 were set the challenge of establishing a relocation company, and creating a relocation plan and developing a storyboard of their journey during the 'Place in Europe Language Challenge'. The brief is to relocate a family of four to a country within Europe speaking French, German or Spanish.
- Theme: Employer engagement
- Keywords: Employer engagement, Enterprise, French, German, International links, Spanish, Work-related learning
- Sector: Secondary
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
Aiming Higher in Languages
The project aims to improve pupils’ chances of achieving A/A* grades in French / German and to promote uptake at key stage 5. Pupils create a voiceover during a special event led by Sixth Form teachers. Throughout key stage 4 pupils have opportunities to access A level texts and activities.
- Theme: Transition
- Keywords: Assessment, French, German, Student voice, Transition
- Sector: Secondary/FE
Fashion International
Fashion International encourages Year 8 and 9 students to develop and use their language skills in work-based exercises and assignments, focused upon the international fashion industry.
- Theme: Employer engagement
- Keywords: Employer engagement, Enterprise, Fashion, French, German, Work-related learning
- Sector: Secondary
Mobile technology in the MFL classroom using the iPad and iPod touch
This innovative project has explored the use of mobile devices such as the iPad and the iPod Touch to enhance the teaching and learning of languages, to complement schemes of work, to motivate learners, to truly collaborate with partner institutions and to raise the profile of languages within the schools.
- Theme: Intensive language learning
- Keywords: French, German, ICT and technologies, Spanish
- Sector: Secondary/FE
Spinning a Yarn- ‘Helps Wu Larn’ - (The Geordie Way)
How to use stories from other cultures to develop the Intercultural Understanding Strand of the Key Stage 2 Framework for Languages. Using the language skills and strategies of secondary students to develop similar skills and strategies in primary school children.
- Theme: Intercultural understanding
- Keywords: French, German, Intercultural understanding, Spanish, Storytelling
- 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
Creating a Language Learning Skills Continuum
Stand-alone teaching and learning activities and resources to develop pupils’ transferable Language Learning Skills and Knowledge About Language. The learning activities are matched to learning objectives in the Key Stage 2 and 3 Frameworks and can be used with any scheme for learning.
- Theme: Transition
- Keywords: French, German, Literacy, Phonics, Spanish, Transition
- Sector: Primary/Secondary
Languages as an Enterprise Skill
We staged a Languages Impact Activity day with employer - designed and led activities, attended by year 11 pupils from all the Isle of Wight secondary schools as a major component of National Enterprise Week. This day was followed up with a programmed sequence of structured consequential development.
- Theme: Employer engagement
- Keywords: Employer engagement, Enterprise, French, German, Independence in speaking, Italian, Spanish, Work-related learning
- Sector: Secondary
Languages for Football
The project aims to give students the opportunity to practice their language skills (reading, writing and speaking) and their research and presentation skills, while learning about the emerging theme of corporate social responsibility and how it works in practice in foreign football clubs.
- Theme: Employer engagement
- Keywords: Employer engagement, German, Spanish, Sport
- Sector: Secondary
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
Incognito
A board game for 2 players. Students take on the role of a British undercover agent and must work their way through France, Germany, Spain and Italy and back to Britain. They must pass on coded messages in the appropriate language in various situations, accumulating money as they go.
- Theme: Transition
- Keywords: French, German, ICT and technologies, Italian, Spanish, Transition
- Sector: Primary/Secondary
Developing Intercultural Understanding through Spontaneous Talk
The aim of this project was to increase and encourage spontaneous student use of the target language, through use of visual prompts such as photographs, often involving elements of Intercultural Understanding. The project was trialled with Year 8 classes in French, Spanish, Italian and German in schools in Shropshire.
- Theme: Intercultural understanding
- Keywords: Alternative accreditation/new GCSE, French, German, Independence in speaking, Intercultural understanding, Italian, Spanish
- Sector: Secondary
Vocational Languages for Diplomas
The project aimed to develop a series of assessments to enable candidates to achieve QCF/NVQ Language Units at three levels within the Additional Learning strand of the Travel and Tourism Diploma. The assessments are designed however to be used to assess and accredit other vocational languages qualifications.
- Theme: Work-related learning
- Keywords: Assessment, French, German, Spanish, Work-related learning
- Sector: Secondary/FE
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.
Languages goes for the hard sell
Students from Year 9 were given the task of producing and delivering a presentation in the target language advertising the products or services of a local company. The students who came from three schools were working in either French or German.
- Theme: Employer engagement
- Keywords: Employer engagement, French, German, Transition, Work-related learning
- Sector: Secondary
Now You Are Talking
The project seeks to explore speaking skills with specific focus on students’ confidence, fluency and spontaneity in speaking. Its aim is to engage students with a variety of different approaches and to encourage creativity and independence with the target language.
Transition in Film Key Stage 4 – Key Stage 5
The project has produced a creative transition in film framework that has mapped out and provided resources and lesson plans for where film can be used as a stimulus for learning and film making as an outcome to stimulate learning across GCSE and AS level in German, French and Spanish.
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.
Inspiring Languages
Working with a professional film company, pupils from 3 Cornish Secondary Schools prepared French, German and Spanish films welcoming young foreign students to Truro Cathedral. Pupils at Hayle Community School took part in a two-day workshop with Keith Sparrow, an acclaimed illustrator to produce a ‘Cathedral Trail’ for young foreign visitors in French, German and Spanish.
- Theme: Employer engagement
- Keywords: French, German, Multimedia, film, music and radio, Spanish
- Sector: Secondary
Total Immersion Learning Challenge: Having FUN! & Staying Safe
French and German oral confidence through kinaesthetic learning in the context of dynamic assertiveness training and self-defence. Creative role-play motivates learners, combining gesture and physical movement with verbal responses, impacting positively on fluency and appealing to hard-to-reach and gifted pupils alike. Cross-curricular, it helps embed PSHE, SEAL and anti-bullying.
- Theme: Independence in speaking
- Keywords: Drama, Engaging hard-to-reach pupils, French, German, Independence in speaking, PSHE and citizenship
- Sector: Primary/Secondary/FE
Talking Matters
We explored intercultural understanding and global learning through the use of images at Key Stage 3. Young people were able to develop their ideas of intercultural understanding in parallel with their linguistic progression. They were also able to develop their critical thinking and enquiry skills.
Little Steps into Languages for Little Learners
This project created story packs in three languages for class teachers of pupils aged 4-7 to borrow and explore, integrating them with the curriculum. The initiative had a focus on developing the skills, knowledge and confidence of Key Stage 1 primary school teachers to teach languages.
- Theme: CLIL
- Keywords: French, German, Literacy, Spanish, Storytelling, Transition
- Sector: Primary
A Place in Europe Challenge
A project with the theme of re-engaging hard to reach pupils in language learning, using French, Spanish and German. Students worked in groups to prepare a business presentation in which they explained how they would relocate a family to France, Germany or Spain.
- Theme: Engaging hard-to-reach pupils
- Keywords: Engaging hard-to-reach pupils, Enterprise, French, German, Spanish, Student voice, Work-related learning
- Sector: Secondary
Languages Live
Building on our successful collaboration as a Strategic Learning Network, the project aims to engage KS3 students in creative responses to language learning. The focus was on creativity, independence and confidence, developed through a range of home learning projects. The end of the project was a big event called 'Languages Live' where students from all five schools came together to share their work and take part in workshops in a celebration of languages.
Linked Up Languages
The project has focussed on liaison between our four schools and the development from that of a coherent picture that allows students a seamless transition. This involves both the look of the department as well as the development of an 11-16 scheme of work. The aim from this was to improve uptake at Key Stage 4 and also to improve the use of target language amongst teachers and students.
- Theme: Transition
- Keywords: French, German, Independence in speaking, Transition
- Sector: Secondary
Talked Up Leeds
This project aimed to assist the French, German or Spanish teacher in teaching the vocabulary which will enable the students to talk spontaneously and fluently on any given topic.
- Theme: Independence in speaking
- Keywords: French, German, Independence in speaking, Spanish
- Sector: Secondary/FE
Talking to Learn 2
This project is a continuation of the original LinkedUp Talking to Learn project and seeks to continue to develop pupil confidence in spontaneous talk. Teachers have focused on the development of new task types which encourage spontaneous or unplanned talk in the classroom with the aim of improving learners’ confidence and creativity.
- Theme: Independence in speaking
- Keywords: French, German, Independence in speaking, Spanish
- Sector: Secondary
Internationalising Enterprise – Languages and Tourism
Using employer engagement as our theme we developed a model for a tourism-based project to help pupils see the application of languages in business. We chose as context the promotion of an attraction overseas through the production of a French promotional flyer, a Spanish video advert and a German radio advert.
- Theme: Employer engagement
- Keywords: Employer engagement, Enterprise, French, German, Spanish
- Sector: 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
Language qualifications factsheet
This comprehensive factsheet lists the available language qualifications that can be used pre- and post-16 in schools and colleges. Covering 31 languages, qualifications are presented by language and by level, making it easy to find the information you're looking for. The factsheet was published in March 2011.
