Activities Bag

Having just read a fab post by@valleseco I felt that I had to upload a word document that is a regular life saver for me. A friend made it a few years ago whilst we were on our PGCE and now, whenever I am stuck for an idea on how to introduce or practice language, [...]

A Guest Appearance

Early in January I wrote a guest post for José Picardo’s Box of Tricks Blog, along with a few other MFL teachers from a wide range of backgrounds. The one thing that we all have in common is the belief that technology can enhance both teaching and learning. José has kindly collated all of our [...]

Audio in the MFL classroom

Having written about the need for a languages lab in my last post, and contemplating the necessity of one on twitter,  local primary school colleagues tweeted that they had found a way to help me around the issue: So, having had a look at the “23 Interesting Ways (and Tips) to use audio in the [...]

MFL Show and Tell in Coventry Part 2

As promised earlier in the week, here is a more in-depth post about last weekend’s MFL Show & Tell get together in Coventry. Firstly, I must say a huge thanks to @jjpadvis and @joedale who, together, organised the venue and ‘chaired’ the event for just over 20 people. We began the day by sipping (a [...]

MFL Show and Tell 2009 in Coventry

This weekend I finally got to meet so many of my virtual colleagues in Coventry at Foxford School where we discussed many, many, many issues. I have had a whirl of a weekend so do not have enough time to write a long enough blog post about the things I learnt and wish to learn, [...]

AQA GCSE – New Specification

Coursework…urm, I mean, Controlled Assessment is the name of the game in today’s post. Having had a meeting with our Director of Studies I am now contemplating exactly how, when and where we are going to conduct the controlled assessments that are part of the new specification GCSE in MFL offered by AQA. As a [...]

MFL Show & Tell

I have just signed up, via Joe Dale’s Wiki, to attend an MFL Show & Tell session on Saturday 14th November in Coventry. The idea arose last weekend and I picked up on what was being suggested through my twitter network, and this morning I saw that Joe had organised the sign-up wikipage when I [...]

MFL Show & Tell

I have just signed up, via Joe Dale’s Wiki, to attend an MFL Show & Tell session on Saturday 14th November in Coventry. The idea arose last weekend and I picked up on what was being suggested through my twitter network, and this morning I saw that Joe had organised the sign-up wikipage when I checked [...]

Primary MFL

As a trained secondary school teacher I am qualified to teach languages at primary school level, and I had the opportunity to work with a primary school class to gain some experience a few years ago whilst doing my PGCE (resources can be found here). Recently, my (independent) secondary school have, for various reasons, asked [...]

LanguagesResources Wiki

Today I happened to log on to Twitter at around midday and came across a message from @kvnmcl: This, along with a previous tweet from @bellale regarding the use of web 2.0 tools in the MFL classroom, has prompted me to write up a copy of an overview of the Spanish course that I will be [...]