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

I teach these year groups;: Reception, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, mixed year classes

About Me:: Originally a Secondary MFL teacher for over 10 years, I retrained to teach in Primary in 2004 and now teach a mixed whole KS2 class. I've introduced French and we also do a summer half-term 'taster' course in another language (so far German with a football theme, and Spanish with a food theme)

Favourite/recommended MFL Website:: http://www.atantot.com/

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Holiday Homework - Have a go at writing your first blog post!

Posted on 26th July 2008 at 11:20am — 3 Comments (Add)

Take Ten En Español

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Money for German projects - curricular and/or extra-curricular

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Le Quatorze Juillet - resources and links

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Football & Primary Languages - slideshare and RSG's

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Nings, blogs, wikis and sharing good practice online: A revolution in cpd perhaps?

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October half term course for teaching German in primary schools - FREE!

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QCA Unit 14 Le Musicien

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Animation For Education - for complete beginners and experts too!

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Something for the weekend?

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Using Catherine Cheater Scheme of Work

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QCA Unit 16 La Plage - part 3 - SlideShare

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Take Ten en Espanol

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QCA Unit 16 – La Plage – some ideas & resources

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New Facility on Talkabout Primary MFL - Groups Creation

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Bring some Eurovision fun to your classroom/podcast/vodcast....

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At 11:19am on 31st July 2008, J V Kirby said…: Thanks for the welcome.
In answer to your questions, we have up to 60 feeder primaries doing different languages to different degrees (or not!). Only just acquired the community responsibility so haven't worked with any yet, except for one Y6 (out of only two schools) doing German, so no idea how it will go. With that group our Y12 linguists went to help out with Christmas activities & a presentation of their school for a German primary, which was well received.
Thanks also for the tip on email avoidance - my problem is that when an alert for a comment for me is sent, it arrives 10 times! Any ideas on that?

At 11:19am on 13th July 2008, Geordie Wannabe said…: Hi, well it's a bit complicated. I am just about to become MFL coordinator and at the min it's just KS2 who do French but i want to introduce MFL into KS1. As for German I did a German degree in my previous life as a student and am a self-professed lover of all things Germanic! Unfortunately there is a huge gap where primary German, i feel, should be in my LA.
So the long and short of it is i am looking for as much advice on MFL coordination as poss!

At 1:30pm on 12th July 2008, Mark Purves said…: That's fine Jo. I would really like to get your feedback on the Catherine Cheater scheme of work. Perhaps you know of posts or blogs elsewhere that talk about it. I would like to know how your school is using it. My own feeling about primary languages is that it is all about capturing kids' imagination, inspiring creativity, a sense of adventure. I underlined all of the instances in the QCA schemes where it mentioned pupils 'enjoying' whatever activity they are engaged in. The danger with an over arching scheme, however well-intentioned, is that it becomes a bit too uniform and hence dull, because it is the expression of one set of ideas. I've not taught it yet. Interested to hear what you think.

At 2:27pm on 4th July 2008, Mr Gorse said…: Er, thanks Jo, for spreading the word...but what is a RSG? HAve you seen my daughter's movie on 'les animaux'? You must see it...

At 10:09am on 3rd July 2008, Chris Graham said…: Thanks Jo, there's a lot to look at, so many people are doing blogs these days. It's one of my personal targets for the next year to try and get one going. You were right about the email in box filling up. Thanks. I see that you were once a secondary teacher. I'm sort of half and half at the minute. I teach secondary for 2 days, and primary, 4 different ones, on the other 2 days. I then give myself Friday off. How did you retrain?

At 10:52pm on 2nd July 2008, Lisa Stevens said…: Have fun tomorrow with your footy presentation.
How many times will you mention Beckham??

Oh, and didn't SPAIN just win the cup????????

Lisa xx

At 8:09pm on 30th June 2008, Helena Butterfield said…: Hi Jo,
Thanks for the message. Thought I'd better do something, since I've been put down to teach Primary Spanish some lessons next year. Must also apologise for the Alternative Eurovision Song Contest...I've been so busy I just haven't had time to do anything for it :o(
Helena x

At 11:45am on 29th June 2008, Isabelle Jones said…: Hi Jo

What a prompt response! I will add name and blog on Spanish, try something else-I was thinking of mentioning Diigo too and ICT as I have a growing number of ICT tool links/ posts that may be of use... Would it be OK to add widget too?

Speak to you soon online...

Isabelle

At 9:12pm on 28th June 2008, Jog On said…: No worries....that's fine :D

At 12:55pm on 27th June 2008, Clare Seccombe said…: Hi Jo,
Yes, I originally qualified as an AST just in MFL, but then the adviser who did the international stuff left, and I was the only one left in the LA who knew anything about it, so I kind of got that added to my job by default. My school has been involved in Comenius since 1998 and I am just compiling the portfolio for our 3rd ISA (it's driving me mental!) So yes, feel free to put any queries my way !