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

Info at start which you can play as a simple Powerpoint and then some games for which you need macros enabled and last few slides for printing off as worksheets.…
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Added by Lorraine on November 20, 2009 at 9:30pm —
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So - yes, it's probably not even called that . . . but I'm at home and the folder with information is at school.
The HT decided that - while most children are away on residential for the week - the remainder of Y5/Y6 could work with me and send something to our partner school. The small primary school in France has already sent photographs of children : we had to decide which child was which by reading info on an 'identity card' which described features such as hair, glasses, clothes, etc.
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Added by Francis Hannaway on November 14, 2009 at 4:21pm —
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So - yes, it's probably not even called that . . . but I'm at home and the folder with information is at school.
The HT decided that - while most children are away on residential for the week - the remainder of Y5/Y6 could work with me and send something to our partner school. The small primary school in France has already sent photographs of children : we had to decide which child was which by reading info on an 'identity card' which described features such as hair, glasses, clothes, etc.
OK…
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Added by Francis Hannaway on November 14, 2009 at 4:21pm —
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Added by Lisa Stevens on November 11, 2009 at 10:27pm —
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Hi
I have put up a post to a free site called Jigsawplanet that enables you to create some free puzzles on any image file, bit picture or text, you have. Here are two examples, one of an image, the other of a simple text. You can make the puzzles easier than this. The site allows you to choose the level of difficulty.
Go
here
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Added by Mark Purves on November 9, 2009 at 11:23pm —
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Hi
I have put info about some poems I found on the subject of Autumn
here.
I have simply put material I found elsewhere onto a Smartboard Notebook file for easier viewing but the site I found them on is referenced and has links to a lot of 'comptines' and poems suitable for KS2.
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Added by Mark Purves on November 6, 2009 at 9:46am —
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OK so actually this has nothing to do with fireworks - but this is the Phonics PowerPoint I was working on after the
Languages Show and which I mentioned in the…
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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on November 5, 2009 at 11:33am —
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Hi everyone.
If you are looking for an idea with some whizz bangs and explosions for Thursday you could try using or adapting materials I have posted at
souffler.co.uk
It might look at first sight that the text is too hard for Primary age kids but I think you would be surprised at how much they could understand if you teach them the tools to be a Language detective and 'decode' a text. Plus they get to have a go at a Powerpoint that has l…
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Added by Mark Purves on October 30, 2009 at 9:51pm —
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It's been a long time since I posted anything on Talkabout - and that makes me sad as I started blogging here and don't want to neglect a community that I have always valued so much and always wholeheartedly recommend when i'm sharing.
So i thought I'd cross post a couple of things from my blog -
¡Vámonos! that you might have missed!…
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Added by Lisa Stevens on October 20, 2009 at 2:01pm —
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(originally posted on
¡Vámonos!)…
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Added by Lisa Stevens on October 20, 2009 at 2:00pm —
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Hi, does anyone have a saved version of this video - I was planning to use it in my halloween lesson but youtube have removed it - very annoying!
Thanks in advance
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Added by Katie Lucas on October 15, 2009 at 1:10pm —
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We are contemplating sending our German language teacher to Germany for a semester and hosting an German teacher. We are early in the process and figuring out things like
how the extra cost for
International health insurance if US
Medical insurance…
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Added by Pat Jewett on October 12, 2009 at 8:30pm —
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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on October 12, 2009 at 11:30am —
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Salut, Bienvenido, Wilkommen and hello to all fellow puppet fans.
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Added by Lorraine on September 27, 2009 at 5:00pm —
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Year 7 and I saw a fantastic joint PE & Languages assembly today over at the
Mountbatten School in Romsey. Jointly delivered by the Heads of each faculty, it was based around the values of…
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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on September 22, 2009 at 9:00pm —
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Can anyone help? I am looking for two books and CDs - different ones that could be used in reception and Year One, as we are planning just speaking/singing and listening only, in these year groups. I have seen un, deux, trois but it has mixed reviews - what are your views? If I buy that one I still need another one. HELP!!!
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Added by Sieben on September 15, 2009 at 11:07pm —
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The above question was posed earlier this afternoon by
Joe Brown and
Hugh Baldry from…
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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on September 10, 2009 at 11:00pm —
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So schools out at last and finally a little 'me time' to catch up on things. I've been inspired by two recent stories in the press - firstly that…
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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on August 4, 2009 at 3:13pm —
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Just a short one to let you know that I have just uploaded a
scheme of work for Reception and KS1 which was produced by a consortium of Sunderland schools
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Added by Clare Seccombe on July 22, 2009 at 10:11am —
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Here in Sunderland we're on a bit of a roll with football, being the only NE team in the Premiership and all. (No hard feelings, Newcastle and Middlesbrough fans!) Last week saw the conference for the NE branch of the Regional Network for International Learning a.k.a. Atlas, and I was asked to do a workshop on the forthcoming World Cup and suggest some activities for primary schools. So many of the ideas are easy to adapt for the languages classroom, I thought I would post the link.…
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Added by Clare Seccombe on July 10, 2009 at 3:30pm —
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