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Regular sessions are held at different venues around
Swindon. Session 1: Wednesday 29 November 2006 An amazing 38 people attended the first ever Regional Support Group in Swindon. Michelle, Louise and Carole treated them to some traditional lebkuchen from Germany and some amaretti from Italy, as well as some lovely chocolate biscuits! The group were then split up and took part in a carousel of activities – creating French fortune tellers and Cartes d’identité, playing Happy Families, dominoes, board games and a beetle drive. Delegates commented that all the ideas for games were very relevant and they plan to use them straightaway. They also commented that they wanted more and couldn’t wait for the next session! Session
2: Wednesday 24 January 2007 On a snowy wintry evening, 30 teachers attended the second Regional Support Group in Swindon. Louise run a lively session looking at websites created for language learning and ‘real’ websites that could be used to support the intercultural understanding strand of the framework. Michelle ran a session on the fabulous resource Le Château Hanté created by teachers in West Sussex. Comments from the participants included:
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3: Wednesday 21 March 2007 38 people attended this fantastic session on storytelling. Jo explained some of the reasons why we should include stories in our language teaching and helped us to choose the right kind of story. During the course of the session we looked at many different books including The Hungry Caterpillar, Brown Bear, Go away big green monster, Goldilocks, Dear Zoo and A dark tale. She also showed us many ways of exploiting stories – including games, dressing-up, acting and using the interactive whiteboard. Session
4: Wednesday 23 May 2007 Yet another well attended session! Over 30 teachers from Swindon and the surrounding area watched Sarah present a very lively session showing how it is possible to teach languages without spending a lot of money. We took part in many different activities using classroom objects including:
Sarah also used some music that is published by LCP during the session. All the activities were closely linked to all strands of the Key Stage 2 Framework for Languages. Comments from delegates included:
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5: Wednesday 27 June 2007 We were extremely lucky in Swindon to have Joe lead a fantastic session about the Primary Languages website. 31 teachers attended the session and were treated to a tour of the primary languages website (www.primarylanguages.org.uk) Using the website, Joe taught us a song in Spanish about body parts and a song in Japanese. We also became language detectives and decoded some Russian numbers. Teachers said that they found the website really useful and that they were planning to share it with their colleagues back in school. Thank you, Joe!
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Coordinator: Michelle Panting, Swindon Local Authority, Sanford House, Sanford Street, Swindon SN1 1QH