With apologies to our French readers, mais oui, il faut bien quelque chose à lire pour ses classes le lundi matin…

Scottish schools are encouraged to get in on the Green Week Biodiversity Competition. This is a great way to bring together languages work on the environment across Europe.
Younger children can enter the competition with drawings and paintings illustrating their opinions about biodiversity while older pupils are invited to submit short digital videos on the same […]

Citizens Online and Microsoft are joining forces for a third year to bring you The Microsoft Community Learning Awards (MCLA), recognising communities and charities that promote IT skills and access to those that might not have the same chances as others. This year they are donating grants of £2,500 and essential IT software to the […]

What does Europe mean to the kids in your classroom? Don’t know? They don’t know? Well, a small session in the computer lab this coming week could help get some of those questions answered as a group of Scottish school students head off to Strasbourg, to find out all about the European Union as part […]

This two-parter explores the science behind language-learning, using neuroscientist and language-phobe Dr Mark Lythgoe as a guinea-pig. Producer Michelle Martin sets about encouraging Mark to learn Spanish in just two weeks. Very interesting!

The BBC’s ambitious new free learning websites for children have got its commercial rivals worried. Read more on this in an article at EducationGuardian.co.uk

A whole dossier from the Internaute on teaching with technology, covering the overarching issues of infrastructure and equipment.

That’s right, J-P’s joined the French ministers who blog. Actually, there’s some great reading in there for older students / teachers with an unhealthy interest in French politics.

If the first two cult films in the Les Bronzés series weren’t enough for you the Internaute announces that Les Bronzés 3 is released this spring, no doubt slightly grey and creased, but certainly more of the same farce. Something for the kids, or is Les Bronzés for another generation?