Cornwall Regional Support Group

Coordinator: Geoff Grigg, County Adviser for Modern Languages, CCED, Penhaligon Building, Trevenson Lane, Pool, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 3RG
Tel: 01209 721416
Email: ggrigg@cornwall.gov.uk

Date: 15/11/2007
Title: Using Take 10 en francais
Venue: Liskeard Hillfort Primary School, Liskeard
Time: 4pm-5pm
Speaker: Jane Full and Rosie Sleep

This session was held in the East of the county and focused on linking French to PE through using the Take 10 en français resource produced in Devon. The two ASTs who ran the session also updated participants on recent primary languages developments, including the Training Zone.

Date: 22/11/07
Title: Using Take 10 en francais
Venue: Hayle Community School and Language College
Time: 4pm-5pm
Speaker: Jane Full and Rosie Sleep

Report: This session was held in the West of the county in Hayle. Again it featured
-a demonstration of the PE resource Take 10 en français
-a reminder of support availabe via the Training Zone
- the opportunity to discuss with colleagues issues around primary languages.

Date: 22/01/2008
Title: Resources and practical tips for teaching French
Venue: Lanhydrock Hotel, Bodmin
Time: 2-5pm
Speaker: Karen Sully, Rosie Sleep, Sharon Hales, Jo Farquaharson

This session was held in mid-Cornwall and was run by four lead teachers and ASTs from that area in an effort to build a secure long-term network in an accessible place. Sessions will be held from 2-4pm so that teachers do not have to travel after school. The programme is also differentiated from LA training by being led by local practitioners, who will develop the network as participants wish. It is intended to run it beyond the lifetime of the RSG - if it can become institutionalised, it will develop a life of its own. The sessions are managed by Karen Sully, primary languages cooordinator at Fowey Primary School and leader of a highly successful languages video-conferencing project covering many rural schools in Cornwall.

The agenda focused on building a teaching unit around the parts of the body and linking it to the primary curriculum and languages framework. Ironically, having held it in school time to make it more appealing, attendance was poor (but we will persevere!)

Date: 07/02/2008
Title: Games and active ideas for teaching languages
Venue: Lanhydrock Hotel, Bodmin
Time: 2pm-5pm
Speaker: Karen Sully, Sharon Hales, Jo Farquaharson

This was the second of three sessions to be held in mid-Cornwall. The focus of the session was a unit of work planned around the film Madagascar (French version), incorporating the Framework objectives at each year. It was a very interesting and successful unit of work, presented by Jo Farquharson and Sharon Hales, primary languages coordinators at Fowey School.

Date: 22/04/2008
Title: Story telling in French
Venue: Lanhydrock Hotel, Bodmin
Time: 2-5pm
Speaker: Karen Sully, Rosie Sleep

This session focussed on story telling and was presented by Rosie Sleep and Karen Sully. Rosie concentrated on story telling techniques and demonstrated easy to prepare activities suitable for adaptation for many well known stories. Karen showed a range of resources including PowerPoint stories and web based, animated, foreign language stories with ready-made activities from the excellent Northumberland Grid for Learning. The session was well attended with 18 participants from all over Cornwall. Participants have since been sent internet links, the PowerPoint presentations demonstrated and details of stockists for the resources shown. Email addresses of participants have been shared along with details of native/fluent speakers willing to make recordings and help with pronunciation.

NACELL Regional Support Groups are funded by the DCSF and co-ordinated by CILT, the National Centre for Languages in support of the National Languages Strategy.