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 Coordinator: Sarah Bell, St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary School, Treadgold St. W11 4BJ
Tel: 0207 7278523
Email: sharahbell@hotmail.com
Regular sessions are held at St Francis of Assisi Primary School
and other venues around Kensington and Chelsea.
London Kensington and Chelsea Regional
Consultative Group is a networking and discussion group hosted by
London Kensington and Chelsea RSG.
Regional
Support Group sessions
Session
5: 4 July 2007
Assesment
Session
4: 23 May 2007
ICT in MFL
Session
3: 28 March 2007
Embedding MFL
Session 2:
15 February 2007
Embedding MFL
Session
1: 20 November 2006
Getting started
Session
5: Assesment
Speaker(s):Claire Elsted , Vanessa Little, Susannah Harding, Sarah Bell, Amy Newman, Liz Kreb, Alison Finlay
Venue:Thomas Moore Language College Sloane Square
We introduced the ELP and went through each of the three sections. Claire talked about the importance of evaluative assessment. She also mentioned the ELP as a transition tool.
Each speaker then talked about one area of the ELP. They demonstrated different activities in different languages that could be used to fill in the ELP. Everyone had a mini version to fill in as we were taken through the activities. The activities covered the four strands of the framework.
Each participant was given a free LP to take away as a gift.
The session was packed with practical ideas and activities to take away and use either as assessment activities of just generally in the MFL classroom. Everyone said that they had enjoyed the session and gained something from it.
Session
4: ICT in MFL
Speaker(s): Isabelle Matrat
Venue: Fulham Cross Languages College
Isabelle ran an extremely informative and useful session. She included lots of ICT tips and MFL methodology. We then had time to work on a computer and explore websites and the various activities that she had shown us. She also provided everyone with a free memory stick with lots of ready made activities which could be used straight away or adapted. Most people said that the session was excellent.
Session
3: Embedding MFL
Speaker(s): Joe Brown
Venue: St.Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary School (nearest tube Latimer
road)
This was the third session of a sequence of five, all of which examine different issues involved in beginning and maintaining a languages programme.
Joe Brown spoke about activities that teachers can do which require very simple resources. He went through the different strands in the frame work and demonstrated simple activities which were applicable to each strand. He incorporated songs, number activities, looking at how names change in different languages. He also talked about how children feel about language and finding ways to bring their own language experience into MFL. Everyone enjoyed the session and said they felt that they had taken ideas away that could be used in the classroom.
Session 2: Embedding MFL
Speaker(s): Claire Elsted and others from St. Thomas Moore Language College,
Vanessa Little, Paul Saich.
Venue: St.Thomas Moore Languages College
We discussed
the relevance in the primary school of incorporating MFL into the daily
routines and the curriculum. Vanessa, Amy and Alison showed ways of linking
MFL to the primary curriculum. Looking in detail at food, parts of the
body and number. Liz then demonstrated ways of incorporating MFL into
the daily routine such as taking the register in the target language etc.
Paul Saich highlighted the many free resources available and talked about
an immersion trip to France that teachers had participated in.
Everyone than broke into discussion groups and each group had a MFL specialist
with them. The discussion groups discussed which of the ideas they felt
able to take on board long term and short term.
Everyone enjoyed the
morning and felt that they had gained practical ideas which required very
little preparation and cold be used immediately.
Session
1: Getting started
Speaker(s): Claire Elsted, Sarah Bell, Suzannah Nightingale,
Alison Bryden
Venue: Isaac Newton PDC Ladbroke Grove
Received very positive
feedback on the evaluation forms for this session. The first speaker introduced
the KS2 Framework for Languages. She demonstrated how it can be used to
aid planning and activities. She covered all the main elements of the
Framework. She also briefly discussed assessment and showed how the Framework
can be used to aid planning and assessment. The next two speakers were
from primary schools. Each one spoke about the language programmes that
they had set up. The two models were very different. They described how
they established the programmes and what they had found easy and difficult,
etc. The final speaker demonstrated language activities relating to each
area of the Framework.
NACELL Regional Support Groups are funded by the DfES
and co-ordinated by CILT, the National Centre for Languages in support
of the National Languages Strategy.
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