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- I will/do teach the following languages:
- French, German, Spanish
- I teach these year groups;
- Reception, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, mixed year classes
- About Me:
- Originally a Secondary MFL teacher for over 10 years, I retrained to teach in Primary in 2004 and now teach a mixed whole KS2 class. I've introduced French and we also do a summer half-term 'taster' course in another language (so far German with a football theme, and Spanish with a food theme).
Until September 08 I shared a whole KS2 class with the Headteacher in a tiny Devon school, but now have a temporary one year post as Primary Languages Consultant in Hampshire -woohoo!!
- Favourite/recommended MFL Website:
- http://www.atantot.com/
- Favorite MFL resource:
- Sock puppets and powerpoint!
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Let's Go Wild - Primary Languages in Hampshire
Posted on 3rd October 2008 at 2:30pm — 5 Comments
Assessment using Asset Languages
Posted on 22nd September 2008 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment
European Day of Languages - 26th September
Posted on 15th September 2008 at 10:14am — 2 Comments
Wikis - what they are, how to get a free one for your class & what you can do with it.
Posted on 9th September 2008 at 11:00pm — 6 Comments
Price of Gas in France
Posted on 15th August 2008 at 10:07pm — 3 Comments
Isle of Wight Conference 2008: fantastic peer-to-peer CPD
Posted on 9th August 2008 at 7:50pm — 11 Comments
Holiday Homework - Have a go at writing your first blog post!
Posted on 26th July 2008 at 11:20am — 3 Comments
Take Ten En Español
Posted on 18th July 2008 at 11:48pm — 4 Comments
Money for German projects - curricular and/or extra-curricular
Posted on 16th July 2008 at 9:00am —
Le Quatorze Juillet - resources and links
Posted on 12th July 2008 at 4:00pm — 5 Comments
Football & Primary Languages - slideshare and RSG's
Posted on 8th July 2008 at 12:00pm — 2 Comments
Nings, blogs, wikis and sharing good practice online: A revolution in cpd perhaps?
Posted on 28th June 2008 at 10:21pm — 2 Comments
October half term course for teaching German in primary schools - FREE!
Posted on 25th June 2008 at 9:13pm — 1 Comment
QCA Unit 14 Le Musicien
Posted on 20th June 2008 at 3:00pm — 6 Comments
Animation For Education - for complete beginners and experts too!
Posted on 15th June 2008 at 8:00pm — 2 Comments
Something for the weekend?
Posted on 13th June 2008 at 12:30am — 4 Comments
Using Catherine Cheater Scheme of Work
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Sparklebox - Free display materials
Posted on 2nd June 2008 at 7:50pm — 1 Comment
QCA Unit 16 La Plage - part 3 - SlideShare
Posted on 21st May 2008 at 10:00pm — 2 Comments
Take Ten en Espanol
Posted on 21st May 2008 at 10:30am — 4 Comments
Some useful quick links:
New QCA MFL Units click here
European Portfolio & Language Passport
KS2 MFL Framework click here to order
KS2 MFL Framework click to download
Part 3 of the KS2 Framework - Planning!
Regional Support Groups info click here
NACELL site homepage
International School Award
Primary Languages Training Zone
Teachers TV
for example planning, songs, phonics etc...
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I would be very grateful if you gave me the photocopies on your ning session!
See you at the IOW conference.
Sarah
PS: Pigloo... :-)
Thanks for the comment!
Its actually not art work. Its inside of the famous 7 star Burj al arab hotel in Dubai. We were not really supposed to take pictures but I couldn t resist. ;-)Those are the hotel rooms you are seeing.
I love the Barbapapa family, they were quite big in Italy in the 70s when I was a little girl... and I've recently rediscovered them on Youtube (how sad is that !?!). I used that PowerPoint last year, but today with my new Year 3 I used a not terribly original Simpsons PowerPoint. I've noticed with disappointment that the children prefer the Simpsons... :-(
I have already signed up for Joe Dale's conference and I'll be at your talk with Lisa Stevens. Unfortunately, due to clashes among sessions, I won't manage to attend yours on Ning Networks (I'd like to set up something similar for the very small community of Italian teachers to exchange ideas, resources etc.). Is it going to be a hands-on, practical type of session?
Thank you very much again and see you at the IOW Coference.
Sarah x
Thank-you for the welcome!
I'm enjoying finding new (to me) technologies here and following links. I'm also looking jealously at the Isle of Wight conference. Do you know if any of the sessions will be recorded?
x Shoshana x
Thanks for the greeting. I do teach in a Mandarin immersion program, but the English part and my partner handles the Mandarin.
Thank you again for the warm welcome.
Mandy
Thanks alot for all your help so far, I am very grateful. I will be emailing Lisa too so thanks for getting in touch. I would love to attend the IOW conference but am unable to get the time off so will be down loading the notes from that as soon as there put on the web site. What school are you teaching at? I have a meeting tomorrow with my dissy tutor so will let you know about what else I need to find out. Hope you are ok,
Maria xx
I've actually given up French at KS2!! There weren't enough afternoons as I have 3 fixed afternoons in 2 infants' schools. I said I'd give the 2 junior schools a year....which I did....but they wnted me to do a total of 5 afternoons this year!...the maths didn't add up!! The head of one school said she'd been at a heads' meeting with the county MFL advisor this week who said she reccomended that class teachers take it over with a 'modest' one off payment for each school......not much for the training & resources needed, even if the staff were ready/willing for the challenge!! I thought Rigolo was good for the able as well as the less able & enjoyed the sample, but had no money to buy it. I do think, with the virtual teacher, it would be good for these inexperienced class teachers! In the meantime I teach Y2 French every week at one infants school & a French lunchtime club at my other one. I think with KS2 MFL 'up in the air' I feel happier to stick to my preferred age group.....& less stress all round.I use LCF Babelzone there & songs from La Jolie Ronde as well as games we all love!!
Fraid I haven't used it or seen it used yet. Sorry no help! Spanish side going well at the moment. Got a day and a half teaching Spanish in two different schools and am going for other things- AST in Sandwell, regional trainer and doing some work for Wton university (after doing my dvd!) Fingers crossed something will work out. Trying to fill the other two days at moment with supply but very slow- we very skint! Hope you are happier in your new job- didn't realise it was a temporary thing? Hope Speekee good?
Hx
thanks
Melvyn
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