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Winners 2008

Passeport citoyenneté et santé, Woodhill Primary School

Pupils from Woodhill Primary School can help you navigate your way around the blogosphere. They have been learning French through blogs and podcasts centred around the themes of good health and citizenship as part of an Anglo-Franco-Scottish project linking schools in three countries. Blogging and podcasting mean that learners can link with partners and communicate using text, images and sound. Using these technologies Primary 6 and Primary 7 pupils have made such impressive progress in learning French that the project is being expanded into secondary level.

Children at the school are rightly proud of their blogs and are thrilled when they receive comments and feedback from people in other schools/countries. The blogs and the podcasts, which include lessons for learners as well as their own recordings, provide the opportunity for the pupils to work at their own pace, which they really appreciate. The mix of language and technology has proved extremely popular with pupils keen to dive into the podcasts in their free time both at school and at home.  The message is very much ‘Vive les podcasts!’


Woodhill Primary School is a non-denominational, co-educational school serving the Woodhill area of Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow.

Language(s): French

www.passeportsante.blogspot.com

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The winners receiving their Award from Sir Trevor McDonald, Geoff Swinn (CILT) and Lid King (DCSF) at the EAL Awards Ceremony on 16 July 2008

 

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