Below you will find a selection of initiatives, strategies and ideas that will help to keep languages alive in your school.

Primary Languages Weekly Bulletin

A selection of ideas from the Primary Languages Weekly email

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Whole School Approaches

Key Stage One

Out of Lesson Learning

Out of lesson learning might include using the register each day but this needs to be strategic. For example, in Year 4, if you have been learning about animals and colours and the adjectival agreement the week before, in the following week, encourage children to respond with the animal and the colour for example in French this might be ‘une souris blanche’ (a white mouse) or in Spanish ‘una oveja blanca’. (a white sheep). For younger children, this might be a food or a colour they like. The learning is always more powerful when the vocabulary is added to a sentence starter such as the use of ‘I like’ in French or Spanish for example ‘Me gusta el chocolate’ (I like chocolate) or ‘J’aime les pommes’ (I like apples).

The use of language learning Apps can be a great way in which to engage learners at home as well as used in school as part of a lesson linked to the learning objective. There are currently a number of schemes which have their own linked language learning Apps as well as more well-known Apps for language learning that are more suitable for upper Key Stage Two language learners.

Other ideas include writing the date on the board every day in the target language as well as in English as this helps the children to learn the days and the months of the year. The children can be asked from Y4 upwards to tell the teacher the date and this can be added to the board in the moment as part of a teaching and learning opportunity. Using the target language in PE lessons such as in this film clip is also another good way in which to encourage use of the target language.

Displays

Spain Virtual Visit

Paris Virtual Visit