A secondary school in Northumberland is to give pupils their own iPods in a bid to help them learn foreign languages, says this article in the Education Guardian.

Twenty-three pupils at Astley Community High School in Seaton Delaval will be given iPods in September at the start of their GCSE year in an attempt to encourage them to practise foreign languages outside the classroom.

The pupils, who are studying French and Spanish, will be able to download tailormade study material to their iPods from the school’s website.

They will be able to use the iPods for the duration of their two-year modern language GCSE course.

One Year 11 pupil at the school said that the scheme was a great idea. ‘I will listen to my podcasts on the school bus. You can look cool and revise at the same time. I’d never get a book out on the bus.’

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