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Target setting problems. Have you experience?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Lorraine May 30, 2009.

What about langauges other than French? Come on enthusiasts!
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Catherine Cresswell Jun 10, 2009.

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For those who have had MFL thrust upon them and would like some mutual support

Mar 13, 2009

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I will/do teach the following languages:: French, German, Spanish

About Me:: Originally specialist German with French subsid. Always been incredibly enthusiastic about languages in primary age range but had little opportunity to put into practice - apart from wet Games lessons when we inevitably played Pumpernickel sagt, Simon dit! Also always done the register in a foreign language. Recently added Spanish to my repertoire. After my family I ended up on long-term supply, teaching right across the curriculum and age ranges up to yr 8 until the end of 2011, when all our middle schools closed. No supply around now unfortunately.

I teach languages to these Year groups:: Reception to year 6 -but only on rare occasions

Favourite/recommended MFL Website:: http://Any resource needed for a topic mainly TES forums , now here...

Favorite MFL resource:: Ladybird beanbag to elicit quick response. Puppets! Stick,paper bag, wooden spoon, socks etc and now my new 'Nounours', and Girl & Boy puppets to 'talk to' and 'with' the children.

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2014 -PMFL or ancient languages set to be compulsory!

Just watched a short news report about the government's new proposed Curriculum to include compulsory languages from the age of 7. Said pretty much what most of us have been saying for years but it could finally be here.

There's an article here…

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Posted on June 10, 2012 at 9:55 — 2 Comments

PMFL to be considered part of Foundation Curriculum at KS2-4!

Reading today TES saw this linkhttps://www.education.gov.uk/publications/standard/publicationDetail/Page1/DFE-00135-2011 (77 pages of it so admittedly only scanned it but read

Foundation subjects of the National Curriculum at Key Stages 1 - 4 should be geography, history and physical education. Foundation subjects at Key Stages 1- 3 should be art & design and music. Modern foreign languages should be a…

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Posted on December 19, 2011 at 21:03 — 6 Comments

Nativity story en espanol/ Deutsch et francais

Just found these online resources for those who'd like a picture version of the nativity story in a variety of languages.

links are

http://m1914.org/PDFs/french/The%20Birth%20of%20Jesus%20French.pdf…

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Posted on December 8, 2011 at 22:46 — 4 Comments

pere noel

For anyone who'd like some resources for those weeks before Christmas, here's a Powerpoint based on pere noel.

KS2_ pere_noel.ppt

Posted on November 20, 2009 at 21:30 — 4 Comments

Puppets and props motivation in mfl

Salut, Bienvenido, Wilkommen and hello to all fellow puppet fans.

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Posted on September 27, 2009 at 17:00 — 4 Comments

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At 9:58 on October 13, 2012, Pauline Stirling said…: Hi Lorraine, I still live on the island but work in Portsmouth. I commute on the hovercraft. Where are you working now?

At 16:36 on March 16, 2010, Aoife said…: Hi Lorraine, a French specialist really but we do support German, Spanish and Italian as well! Check our the German section of our site for ideas and resources www.mlpsi.ie

At 13:36 on January 11, 2010, Liz Chamberlain said…: Hi Lorraine and thanks for the welcome. I look forward to using the site.

At 19:44 on January 4, 2010, Tara Russo said…: Thank you Lorraine for directing me to this site. Have ordered a few books from amazon today including 'the cat in the hat' in French and 'the very hungry caterpillar' in Spanish and French...if I never use them in class I'll use them with my own kids. As for Italian, yes 'ciao' works, and 'Buon Giorno' is the Bonjour equivalent!

At 20:37 on November 19, 2009, Trizia Williams said…: Hi Lorraine. Thanks for the nice welcome. I looked through your entries, and realized that there are some six thousand miles separating us. I live in Arizona, in the US. Anyway, I'm delighted with your site.

At 17:59 on October 6, 2009, Clare McGreevy said…: Hi Lorraine, I use two swagbag style bags that I got from Ikea. Then for example when we are doing colours in French, I have identical toys/items of different colours in each bag (eg a yellow chicken, a pink peg, etc). We all go through these as a class and say the colour as I put the items in the bag. Then two children come to the front. Another child asks for rouge, maybe. Then both children must try to be the first to find the object in the bag without looking. The get very excited about it! This can be adapted for different themes like food or animals. I hope this helps!
Clare

At 21:44 on September 25, 2009, Anouska said…: Hi Lorraine, really hope interviews are going well and do not worry at all about stuff for me! xx Anouska

At 19:29 on September 23, 2009, Valerie Thornber said…: Hi Lorraine

So you've spotted me! GrowStoryGrow will be in German hopefully before Easter next year. Watch this space!

Val

At 15:24 on July 26, 2009, Ceridwen Davies said…: I was the one who volunteered to be Katharina Ritter's Erzählkind. Red hair. Actually I took up Maike Alex's invitation to go and see Katharina Ritter at the south London primary school the following Monday morning. It was great. Two classes of children from a very deprived area, only one of which had learnt German, and she kept them captivated for an hour, telling the stories mostly in German.

At 8:02 on July 24, 2009, rachaelhickman82 said…: Sorry, wasn't very clear! We do Romans topic in Year 4 so would appreciate that planning, thanks.