Films from a record 58 countries have been submitted for consideration for the foreign language Oscar, with Iraq, Costa Rica and Fiji among the entries. Read the BBC news article for more information. If you’re interested in film, check out the Cinema and media section of the MFLE, where you can find out more about National Schools […]

Hove Park School in East Sussex has won the TES/HSBC prize of International School of the Year. The school, which is a member of ALL, has won £5,000 for its work, which includes links to eleven countries across every continent. Read the full story on the TES website.

If you would like to go to the London Language Show on Friday 4th, Saturday 5th or Sunday 6th November, please visit the London Language Show website for more information, or e-mail Norman Renshaw (courses@in-languages.com) and he can send you a free ticket(s) in the post.

   Find out how to organize your life abroad, how to turn “culture shock” into an enriching experience and get some useful phrases and activities for key vocational sectors in French, Spanish, German and Italian. Read more on this at BBC Languages for Work
In addition, this is an area being addressed inside MFLE itself. […]

How worthwhile and all-encompassing John’s kids’ poetry work has been at Sandaig Primary this past week. Pupils aged 6-10 celebrated National Poetry Day by writing 150 verses of poetry online in a couple of hours. They also did a poets’ podcast of some of the verses from the classes. Well done, kids.
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East Lothian Council has provided a blogging tool for its teachers on its Exc-el website. Ollie Bray from Dunbar High School blogs on Geography teaching and running a department for the first time; Don Ledingham’s Weblog is covering A Year in the Life of the Head of Education; Angus MacRury is writing a Headteacher’s Weblog […]

Quick reminder for those involved in eTwinning programmes, and if you’re not it’s not too late to sign up… If you don’t know about eTwinning it is explained in the MFLE Links Abroad section and in the current mflePodcast, with excerpts from the SETT Learning Festival seminar on eTwinning (full seminar available here).
The first […]

Listen to the first podcast from the MFLE, recorded at the seminar on eTwinning given by Susan Linklater (British Council), and George Glass (HT, Cauldeen Primary School) on the 21 September 2005 at SETT, the Learning Festival. This edition contains French music.
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George Reid was present in Paris showcasing Scotland’s approach to e-democracy last week. Libération featured an article and interview with him (De l’e-pétition au vote par l’Internet) and the Scottish Parliament is always there for non-francophones (Holyrood’s commitment to e-democracy showcased)

Like every other newspaper in France today, Libération is not in the stands because of a national strike in schools, factories, distribution…
Well, the topic of La Grève had to come up at some point this year, didn’t it?