Report of the Scottish Government’s conference on the Scots language held at the University of Stirling on 9 February 2009, which includes the conference agenda, slides from the main presentations, notes from the breakout discussion groups, a copy of the provision reporting form and a list of attendees.
Last Monday, Scottish CILT hosted the first virtual event for languages teachers through Glow – Scotland’s national school intranet. They invited practitioners from the primary and secondary sectors to share their experiences of interdisciplinary work and had examples from each sector as the focus of the event.
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The Curriculum for Excellence website has published the modern languages experiences and outcomes online
You can also create and save your own personalised groups of outcomes for planning use. Find out more from http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/curriculumforexcellence/languages/modernlanguages/index.asp?
The Primary Languages website is a national gateway to advice, information, support and training for primary languages teaching and learning. The site is owned and operated by CILT, the National Centre for Languages, the government’s recognised centre of expertise on languages.
The Department of Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) is looking for advice from teachers about how Chinese language, history and culture can be more widely taught to children and young people in the UK.
To share your views please complete the following survey:
Fiona Hyslop, Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, and Keith Brown, Minister for Schools and Skills, formally launched the Curriculum for Excellence guidance on Thursday 2 April in Stirling.
The reforms are intended to raise standards by improving learning and teaching with literacy and numeracy a key focus. They will help our young people to become:
Curriculum for Excellence – http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/curriculumforexcellence/index.asp
Experiences and outcomes for Modern languages – http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/curriculumforexcellence/languages/modernlanguages/index.asp
Experiences and outcomes – http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/curriculumforexcellence/experiencesandoutcomes/index.asp
A range of statistics relating to pupils in Scotland’s publicly funded schools has been published.
Hi
A wee reminder to pop this in your diaries for January.
This conferenence will be a joint Scottish CILT/HMIE conference which will showcase best practice identified during trialling of Curriculum for Excellence and from visits by HMIE and Scottish CILT.
Visit Scottish CILT for all the information you’ll need.
1. The BBC have given the popular beginners’ course ‘Spanish Steps’ a new look.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/lj/
2. There are a couple of Christmas themed classroom activities
A Christmas Customs quiz available in French ¦ Spanish ¦ German ¦ Italian and also special Christmas holiday crosswords in French and Spanish.
3. China Stories - in English and Gaelic
A series of short films with flexible learning potential, based on different aspects of Chinese life. There is also a production log showing how the films were made and teaching notes.,You can also access a full Gaelic version.
Browse through BBC Languages for more great resources.
MFLE has published two new sharing practice examples.
Perth High School – Developing the Chinese theme- for their International Education programme and Rashielea Primary- Creating links with a primary school in China - How Rashielea primary created cultural links with Tianjin Experimental Primary School.
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