Saturday, 10 October 2020

No Travel No Problem! -Bringing Languages Alive During a Pandemic-Seneca MFL Conference 10 October 2020

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 I had a great time at the Seneca Virtual MFL Conference today. Here is a copy of my slides: https://www.slideshare.net/icpj/no-travel-no-pr...
Saturday, 26 September 2020

"Music, Rhythm and Grammar-Supporting Recall", TM Modern Foreign Languages Icons event, Saturday 26 September 2020

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  I had a great time at the TM Modern Foreign Languages event this morning. There certainly was a great variety of topics and presenters and...
Sunday, 30 August 2020

Music and Technology: Making Language Learning Memorable, a TiLT Webinar-Thursday 29 August 2020

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I have always been a strong advocate for using music in the Languages classroom and was delighted to be offered to present a TiLT Webinar fo...
Tuesday, 28 July 2020

Twitter Summer Foreign Language Bookclub !

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It all started on Twitter … After Jane Basnett, @basnettj asked her Twitter network for suggestions to create a list of French books for Fr...
Friday, 10 July 2020

Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) and Modern Languages Options: What is it and What is the point?

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The EPQ is not a new qualification but discussing it with Nick Brown , Head of Languages at Lincoln Castle Academy, I started to understand ...
Wednesday, 8 July 2020

Ofqual Consultation: Suggested Changes for the Assessment of A Levels and GCSEs in Modern Foreign Languages in 2021

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Ofqual is currently conducting a very important consultation including proposals tomodify the assessment requirements for some GCSEs, AS and...
Friday, 3 July 2020

Lessons from Lockdown

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Lockdown is continuing to be very hectic and intense for teachers. I have asked my online teacher network about what lockdown has meant for ...