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Our very first RSG here in Dorset was well attended with teachers, TAs and Headteachers travelling from far and wide to participate in the session. The speaker was Elaine Minett, an Advisory Teacher from West Sussex LA. She led us through a series of lessons based on the popular children’s book ‘We’re going on a Bear Hunt.’ The session was ‘hands on’ and we all had great fun acting out various parts of the story, particularly the onomatopoeic sounds. We were amazed how many ideas Elaine had to exploit the story both in a language lesson and across the curriculum into Drama and PE. All participants received a free CD of all the resources demonstrated. We are now looking forward to seeing Elaine’s other ideas for exploiting Big Books on the West Sussex Grid For Learning. Session
2: Tuesday 28th November 2006 Jo Crocombe, PMFL Consultant from Poole LA led us through a myriad of activities that could be used in connection with Christmas. Once again, this was a ‘hands on’ session where we got the scissors, glue and colouring pencils out and even acted out the Nativity in French. Jo also introduced us to a number of useful websites which we could use with our classes. All participants really enjoyed the session and were even more grateful to take away a CD of all the resources shown and more. Session
3: Thursday 15 February 2007 Twenty-five teachers attended the RSG session on ‘Sharing Good Practice’ at Ferndown Middle School in East Dorset. After an update on national developments and an overview of the training programme for next year, our three Consultant Leading Teachers led a short session on a topic/area that they had been developing with their classes. Heidi Inns began by presenting delegates ideas for differentiation in MFL, using the Year 5 and Year 6 Schemes of Work that she has written for her school. Karen Parnell showed us how to use Digital Blu cameras and gave us lots of ideas how they could be used for MFL. We were very impressed how easy they were to use. Several schools already have these cameras and teachers were looking forward to trying them out on their return to school. Finally, Isla Ferguson presented a unit of cross-curricular work based around the Year 3 History QCA Unit ‘Why did Henry VIII marry six times?’ The PowerPoint presentation that Isla had created for this was highly amusing and we all agreed that pupils would benefit from this cross-curricular approach to teaching MFL. Session
5: Thursday 14 June 2007
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Coordinator: Ruth Parker, Pupil and School Improvement, Primary Strategy Team, Ground Floor,
Hammick House, Bridport Road, Poundbury, Dorchester DT1 3SD