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Secondary Network meetings 25 and 26 November in Birmingham and Walsall. This is one of Comenius West Midlands' regular sessions. Topics will include: updates on the New Diplomas, Developments post-14, progress with the new secondary curriculum and working with a changing Year 7. Developing intercultural understanding 11 December. A one-day CILT course to look in depth at the concept of Intercultural Understanding in the primary school. Using Powerpoint to tell stories 5 February. Storytelling lies at the heart of any language learning experience and this is especially true for young learners. The primary classroom is the ideal place to develop children’s language learning skills through storytelling, which is interwoven into every stage of the Key Stage 2 Framework for Languages. This CILT course will look at how classroom teachers and subject leaders can create flexible, stimulating and unique resources for storytelling using PowerPoint. Beyond the cuddly toy 17 March. This CILT course will examine progression across the four years of KS2 and consider what the next steps might be for schools and teachers looking to develop their teaching of primary languages. Black Country Networks for Excellence launches Comenius Centre Pathfinder has now launched the Comenius Satellite Centre at Wolverhampton Science Park. The launch event which took place on September 30th was attended by local, regional and national partners including the national and regional managers for the Comenius Network, the Spanish Embassy, the Association of Language Learning, the BBC, the local LSC and many teachers and tutors who have been part of previous Pathfinder activities. Guests were able to see the new Comenius Centre and browse the services and resources available while enjoying light refreshments. Songs for European Day of Languages September 26 is the European Day of Languages. To celebrate we have made three three songs available – one each in French, German and Spanish. These are from a CD of songs recorded by some of the Foreign Language Assistants who were with Birmingham schools last year. They are children’s songs, and very short – ideal to have your pupils learn them on the European Day of Languages. You might even organise a competition to see how quickly children can learn one, or all three songs. |
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