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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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
Literacy-Led Modern Language Learning
This project focused on developing units of work in French and Spanish driven by the literacy outcomes of the related National Strategies units with a view to engaging disenchanted learners, and impacting on progress in literacy, particularly writing, through the development of engaging pedagogy and resources.
- Theme: Engaging hard-to-reach pupils
- Keywords: Engaging hard-to-reach pupils, French, ICT and technologies, Literacy, Phonics, Spanish, Storytelling
- Sector: Primary
Improving pupils’ progress in languages through effective approaches to transition
This project involved primary and secondary teachers working together to provide a smooth transition experience for pupils between Key Stages 2 and 3 through the adoption of systematic approaches to planning, teaching and assessment. It included peer observations and the effective use of ICT to record, monitor and assess learning.
- Theme: Transition
- Keywords: Assessment, French, ICT and technologies, Language leaders / peer-to-peer learning, Spanish, Transition
- Sector: Primary/Secondary
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
Bringing a text to life: From Talk to Performance
Starting with the principles of Talk for Writing, the aim of this project is to develop creative and innovative practice using texts in the target language. The text is memorized by the whole class and recited using a kinaesthetic approach. The resources produced aim to promote language rich and stimulating learning opportunities for all.
- Theme: Independence in speaking
- Keywords: French, Independence in speaking, Literacy, Spanish, Storytelling
- Sector: Primary
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
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
Wharfedale French and Spanish Community Reading Project
The project transferred methodology from Key Stage One literacy acquisition into practice in upper Key Stage 2, by creating supported French or Spanish reading groups for year 5 and 6 children, which provided supportive and enjoyable opportunities to practise reading aloud with adult helpers. The project also aimed to raise the profile of reading in French or Spanish within the wider community.
- Theme: Intensive language learning
- Keywords: French, Literacy, Parent participation, Phonics, Spanish
- Sector: Primary
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
Mixed Age Learning
This project set out to include adult learners in both Key Stage 3 and 4 classes of Spanish. Building a mixed age language learning community had the joint aims of improving student motivation, attainment and behaviour and meeting the community cohesion agenda.
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
Internationalising Enterprise - Languages and Export
Under the employer engagement theme we developed a model for an export-based project to help pupils see the application of languages in business. The context was the promotion of a product overseas through research into French/Spanish culture, the best media to promote it and the creation of a slogan in French/Spanish.
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.
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
Culture Unlimited
This multimedia project provided creative, auditory and visual opportunities for pupils and teachers to express themselves in their home languages alongside other pupils learning new languages. It aimed to examine the experience of all sections of the community in an inclusive and unmediated way and to help non-linguists to understand the importance of language learning in a multicultural global society.
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
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
Speak up, speak out!
Speak up, speak out! is a cross-borough collaborative project involving primary and secondary partners working together to promote pupils’ confidence and independence in speaking. We have worked in French and Spanish.
- Theme: Independence in speaking
- Keywords: French, Independence in speaking, Spanish, Transition
- Sector: Primary/Secondary
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
Talking sense with technology – Making the grade at GCSE
This project wanted to develop confidence in speaking and to allow teachers to experiment with new ways of engaging learners. We wanted to provide students with a new perspective and to challenge them to use new technology to improve performance in speaking.
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.
Exploring Literacy through Storybird
Year 7/8 pupils produced French and Spanish e-Books using the Storybird website. These e-Books were then shared with year 5/6 pupils in feeder primary schools, who used them as a lesson resource. Year 6 pupils then wrote their own e-Books in French and Spanish. The project culminated in a showcase event where year 5/6 and 7/8 pupils got together to read their books to each other, giving feedback in the target language.
- Theme: Transition
- Keywords: French, Literacy, Spanish, Storytelling, Transition
- Sector: Primary/Secondary
Primary Mentoring Project
This project aimed to provide specialist MFL support to non-specialist primary teachers in relation to the launch of the Primary Languages initiative through a mentoring scheme.
- Theme: Transition
- Keywords: French, Spanish, Transition
- Sector: Primary/Secondary
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
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
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.
