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Firework Phonics for French

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… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on November 5, 2009 at 11:33am — 4 Comments

Mixed Age classes and a slideshare

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on October 12, 2009 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

An Olympic theme for European day of Languages

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… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on September 22, 2009 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

Good Primary Languages lesson what makes hrrrm?

The above question was posed earlier this afternoon by Joe Brown and Hugh Baldry from… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on September 10, 2009 at 11:00pm — 5 Comments

Holiday Homework - Do you have any?

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… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on August 4, 2009 at 3:13pm — 4 Comments

Make your own languages games with 2Simple DIY

Yesterday at the Hampshire ICT conference at Horndean Community College I was introduced to Katherine Smith, an educational consultant for 2Simple software. They were keen to show me their new… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on June 27, 2009 at 7:00pm — 4 Comments

Maths and Language Games

The attached PowerPoint slides are designed to practice numbers in French (though you could easily adapt them to Spanish or German). I made them in the hope of using them to reinforce the concept of number and be slightly more cognitively demanding in a mathematical manner while using t… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on June 21, 2009 at 1:00am — 4 Comments

10 Quick & easy things to do every day that will help ensure ALL your students are making progress

SEN children have an equal entitlement to the full curriculum and often respond particularly well to modern language teaching methods. They are also able to achieve excellent results. Children can work from the same objectives as the rest of the class once barriers to their learning ar… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on May 27, 2009 at 11:00pm — 1 Comment

KS2 Assessment / Target stickers for Primary Languages

One of the most useful resources I have found for keeping tabs on my whole KS2 class, are the Targeteers stickers from Superstickers. For various curriculum subjects, but particularly in Numeracy, Literac… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on April 27, 2009 at 12:30am — 12 Comments

Structured Reading & Writing scheme through teaching phonics in French

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on April 12, 2009 at 12:59pm — 1 Comment

Writing without a pen - Primary Languages Show 2009

Reading and writing are integral skills that are sometimes shied away from when introducing languages to young learners. Thank you to everyone who came along today & sorry the session was rushed! As promised here are the resources & I hope to get the whole ppt onto slideshare in… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on March 7, 2009 at 12:30am — 6 Comments

World Book Day - Thursday 5th March 2009

Why not celebrate world book day by reading a story to your French/German/Spanish class this week?Over on our wikispace there are three links to suggested storybooks for French,… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on March 3, 2009 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Saint Valentine in the language classroom

Just found some Valentine links for anyone looking for a topical theme this week. I'll start with the animation here which I got from the French site jedessine.com - there… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on February 8, 2009 at 11:35pm — 1 Comment

Transition from KS2 to KS3 - Calling all teachers!

What's the point of learning a language for 4 years or more and then starting again from scratch? What does that say about the attitudes of secondary practitioners to their primary colleagues? Moreover, how does a comprehensive cope with yr 7 coming in from a large number of primary sch… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on January 20, 2009 at 9:32pm — 4 Comments

Let's Celebrate the New Year!

Just before the end of term I was lucky enough to watch a Spanish lesson given by Simon Iglesias to a mixed class of Year 5 and 6 which included talking about the New Year celebrations as part of the… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on December 28, 2008 at 6:00pm — 1 Comment

Powerpoint Tricks from the East Hampshire RSG

We were playing around using the dragndrop macro in powerpoint at the East Hampshire RSG last night. You can download the powerpoint slides we used below - to make them work you will need to set the security settings on your version of powerpoint to medium in order to enable the macro,… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on November 26, 2008 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

Copyright - Please be careful

Putting this message on the main page because I think it is an area many people are unclear on. Please can you make sure when you share resources on this site that you have permission to do so. If it is entirely your own work this is fine, if it is someone else's make sure they are ok wit… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on November 15, 2008 at 5:28pm — 1 Comment

Le 11 Novembre - jour de l'armistice

Wikipedia has a comprehensive definition of Armistice day for your class to explore, should they wish today, remembering that we mourn ALL those killed. For the very young, or just a lighter touch, you might want to make use of this… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on November 11, 2008 at 12:51am — No Comments

MFL Games

Below is a powerpoint slideshow of games and activities to play in the classroom to help language learning at all levels and I've cross-posted this onto the TES forum to make sure everyone gets to share. The list was started by a TES forum and I would love to keep on adding and updating it… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on November 8, 2008 at 11:00am — 3 Comments

QCA Unit 4 Portraits & some powerpoint triggers

Been doing some work on the QCA Unit 4 in French to add to our wiki pages. So far have created two powerpoints to cover the first three lessons or so, which you are welcome to download, chop 'n' change, transla… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on November 3, 2008 at 6:30pm — 5 Comments

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