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Regular sessions are held at different venues around Tameside. To register for a session contact Joyce White on 0161 342 3675 joyce.white@tameside.gov.uk or Sue Batty on 0161 342 3230 sue.batty@tameside.gov uk.uk Date: 18/09/2007 This initial Tameside RSG meeting of the year had been widely advertised and was attended by 25 delegates. Sofia Holmes led a really well received session in Spanish using puppets imaginatively to help children learn greetings, how to take the register in Spanish giving a range of responses, "Dora the Explorer", using a puppet theatre, learning the "una casita" finger rhyme and "El arco Iris", a song learnt and enjoyed by delegates. Date: 28/11/2007 Our best ever attendance, with 45 delegates from Stockport and Tameside LAs. Kirsty Pierce from Marple Hall led the first input describing Christmas customs in Germany including advent candles, advent calendars and Weinachtsgeback - Christmas baking. She described the impact of Christmas markets in Germany, Sankt Nikolaustag on 6 December and how German families celebrate Christmas. Louisa Dawes shared great information on Christmas in France, including cultural traditions illustrating the similarities and differences with Germany. Louisa highlighted useful websites including Décore l'arbre de Noel and the story "Le Bonhomme de Neige". Sara presented a rage of Christmas customs in Spain including the place of the crib in homes, the massacre of the innocents and the place of Los Reyes Magos the Magi - and the lack of Father Christmas - in Spain. The session provided inspiration for developing intercultural understanding. Date: 30/01/2008 Wendy Adeniji, an MFL ICT consultant, delivered an inspiring session on how to use IWBs to focus and engage primary pupils in language learning.Wendy demonstrated effective ways of using PowerPoint... Words and/or pictures of nouns might flash once only on the screen for pupils to then name in the FL. We were then shown a slide of a man and a ladybird which she had copied several times. On each slide she had created a different freeform motion path which moved the ladybird around the screen, finally landing on a different part of the body. Pupils were asked to predict on a mini whiteboard on which bodypart the ladybird would land next. Then came pictures with empty speech bubbles where pupils had to suggest the FL needed and the QCA story of the Four Friends. We were shown how to use tools on IWBs e.g. Pupils might take guesses at what picture was being slowly revealed by the spotlight tool. The session was thoroughly enjoyed by all teachers whatever level of ICT skill they had. Date: 05/03/2008 The session was a wealth of ideas for classroom activities to help teachers teach Intercultural Understanding. Here are some of them:..Each child colours in a black and white version of Picasso's "Child with a Dove" and then display it alongside a print of the original... Create a simple set of FL dance instructions and learn them with authentic music downloaded from the internet. Create an atmosphere of foreign lands using downloaded photos of Madrid and Spanish guitar music. Visit the Eary Start website for ready written projects about famous people or the Pilote website to gain insight into life in France and Spain. Plan and Take a trip with Barnaby Bear on the BBC website. Our second speaker, Ernesto De La Fuente took us on a virtual journey around a map of Spain as we moved aroud the room and discovered rivers and mountains and decided what form of transport we would need to get from Madrid to Seville in saftey. A lively session sadly missed by some due to local traffic chaos. Date: 25/06/2008 After a year of local input to Tameside RSG twilight sessions, it was decided to invite 3 national speakers to the annual RSG conference. The attendence list for the daytime conference welcomed several newcomers who were advisers, F.E. lecturers and teachers from neighboring authorities, not seen before. The first session was an hour of traditional French dancing, lead by Yannick Minvielle-Debat which included a simple KS1 dance called "Petit Lapin." Session two was no less exhausting as we sung along with the Rhythms, raps and rhymes of Monsieur X himself, David Hicks. Younger teachers paticularly seemed mesmerised and wholly engaged in this active learning of French. After a buffet lunch session there was a thought provoking presentation by Nick Warren about the "can do" attitude of his school staff for embedding primary languages across their whole primary curriculum to enrich it. The delegates were given workshop time to discuss this and relate it to their own schools. A great day!
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Coordinator: Peter Allen General Adviser/School Improvement, Services for Children and Young
People, Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, Wellington Road, Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside OL6 6DL