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October 2007 Blog Posts (7)

L’ Halloween; some ideas and resources for French

Whether you do Halloween just for the fun of it or ‘spook up’ your current MFL topic, most of this should translate easily into German, Italian etc. but for Spanish I’d go for a Día de los Muertes theme at the start of November.…

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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on October 20, 2007 at 11:46 — 7 Comments

Trains, ferries, buses and Ford Anglias - the IoW conference.

Before you get the wrong end of the stick, this post will not be all about how to teach transport in French, Spanish or any other language for that matter. The title refers to the many modes of transport I used this weekend in my travels to and from the Isle of Wight for the Isle of Wight Conference 2007 .

When Joe Dale originally asked me to speak (on eTwinning and Primary… Continue

Added by Lisa Stevens on October 18, 2007 at 18:30 — 7 Comments

Isle of Wight ICT in MFL Conference 2007 – I was there!

Phew - what a fantastic day! Met up with a host of friendly conference delegates on Friday night in the Castle Inn, Newport for Joe Dales free ‘Show and Tell’ where Paul Harrison joined us via Flashmeeting – a cheap simple video-conferencing tool invaluable for arranging & managing meetings between…

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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on October 14, 2007 at 12:00 — 1 Comment

Isle of Wight Flashmeeting!

Some of you know that Joe Dale , a member of this group, has organised a conference on the Isle of Wight this Saturday entitled Integrating ICT into the MFL curriculum (or something like that - I should really know, shouldn't I?)

Tomorrow night (Friday) there will be a MFL Show and Tell in a nearby pub / function room at which people will, as the name suggests, 'show and… Continue

Added by Lisa Stevens on October 11, 2007 at 19:22 — 1 Comment

Teaching Places in the Town (in French) to KS2

This half-term 'places in the town' has come back round on our whole ks2 rolling program. It's a fun topic that lends itself to lots of cross-curricular activity and we've been making the most of the recent good weather to get out and about with a digital camera.

The children chose places in our local area that 'identified' us (linked very well with signs and symbols in RE) and took photos - some in their own time which they then uploaded to our…

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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on October 9, 2007 at 21:30 — 1 Comment

Intermediate ISA success for WCPS!

Yesterday saw good news for Whitehouse Common Primary School - not only did the OFSTED inspectors leave us ;o) but we also received notification that our apllication for the Intermediate ISA had been successful!

For those unsure as to what this is, the International Schools Award is run by the British Council to recognise schools that have raised the profile of Internationalism in

their curriculum. There are three levels, Foundation, Intermediate and Full.… Continue

Added by Lisa Stevens on October 3, 2007 at 21:21 — 8 Comments

EDL week at WCPS.

EDL has come and gone for another year, and I didn't get round to telling you what I was going to do as I had promised in my blog post in August. So here's a retrospective!

When I wrote the original post I was planning to ask the Head if we could have some kind of school celebration of EDL, but when it came to it, I went for it. My suggestion that all classes could do an activity based on a language of the teacher's choice, and then we'd have a celebration assembly on the… Continue

Added by Lisa Stevens on October 2, 2007 at 9:44 — 2 Comments