All Blog Posts (411)

Often it's easier to link certain themes when learning a language to the rest of the school curriculum than others, and Science often seems to get missed. So here are some ideas to link KS2 language learning to what the children are doing or have recently covered. Not only does it serve to 'embed' the lessons within…

ILILC 2012 - The ICT Links In Languages Conference is fast approaching and I am certainly looking forward to it. Held over a weekend (25/26 Feb 2012) to allow teachers to attend who might not otherwise be released from school, this conference has, in my opinion, an atmosphere of infectious enthusiasm like no other. Full details can be found at…

Happy New Year to you all.

Have just been looking for resources for Picasso to use with my schools and I have just come across the TATE gallery website- lots of ideas for Picasso and other artists. If anyone has any ideas for Picasso/ Spanish I would love to hear from you.

Helen x

Frankly what are you doing on this site at Christmas?! Go on - get yourself over to the the …

Dear colleagues,

Would like to inform you about the Summercourse on using technology for oral communication in Modern Language Teaching, largely based on the results of the NIFLAR project. 

The Universities of Utrecht and Valencia, in cooperation with TELLConsult and the Utrecht SummerSchool,…

 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…

Thanks to Jamie at Languagenut.com for sharing this link  to free KS2 French, Spanish and Chinese resources for Christmas.

Click HERE to find songs with soundfiles and lyrics,…

Bonjour a tous! 

As promised, you can now download print outs of some traditional and famous French tunes from our new website Activities Section. The children can colour in the original Le Petit Monde illustrations which help memorize the songs. Of course, painting and glueing are options too.. Have fun! Tania. :)

PS: we just put up 'Petite Etoile'…

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…

Since my change of role in September, I have a lot more spare time, and have been filling some of it in the last couple of weeks making up some songs to help my KS2s with their phonics in Spanish.  So far I've done one for the "j" sound and one for the "th" sound.  You can download them and accompanying resources here (scroll down to the bottom of the page).  

Have just been sent this link from a colleague who received it via Michael Rosen. It starts from a Literacy focus,but it is 'a celebration of the languages spoken by Primary Children'.

Translation Nation inspires primary school children to explore literary translation and develop an appetite for international storytelling and a curiosity about world literature.

I will certainly be having a…

 Here is a last minute round-up of resources that link very nicely with Armistice day - bearing in mind that soldiers of many nationalities have lost and still continue to lose their lives daily...

• Wikipedia has…

Hi - I've been trying out this great website lately.http://storybird.com/  

I have made a few stories but they are not public at the moment. You have to wait for them to be moderated. It is great fun to play with the lovely artwork. And challenging making stories to go with the pictures available!

Try and see my examples under the following links…