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In this clip, year 11 students describe in detail the content of their portfolios for the CoPE International Award including how the group learnt Spanish, and one of the main challenges in the portfolio which was a trip to a partner school in Spain.  This clip will be particularly useful for schools planning to introduce the International Award with their students or for those with portfolios already in progress.   

In this clip, the same students give a detailed description of their experience of learning Spanish. The independent approach student-centred approach gave them the opportunity to plan both the portfolio tasks and their own learning of the language to meet targets they had set for themselves. The students also describe how beneficial the trip to Spain was and how much it motivated them to want to learn Spanish.