A New Year's resolution?

Just before we stopped for Christmas I asked the PLN associate teachers and tutors to think about what they feel will be a key focus for a specific year or class they teach primary languages, starting January 2017.

Maybe you will find some of these resolutions resonate with your own next steps in language learning in school or help you to find a core school focus.....

Janet Wallbanks's New Year's resolution is "to focus on phonics with my Year 6 classes to help them with their pronunciation"

Kate Percival's New Year's resolution is "to focus on transactional language with Year 5 to help them grow in confidence with their speaking and to see their language learning grow."

Michelle Hindley's  New Year's resolution is "to focus on implementing 'Physical French Phonics' with all year groups, linking sounds to actions to help them pronounce words they read."

Steph Pierre's New Year's resolution is  "to focus on adjectival agreements with Y6 to help them develop a greater awareness of the impact of gender and number on French spelling, and help them give more detail to their descriptive writing"

Jo Gierl's New Years resolution is "to focus on the quality of feedback with Year 4 to help them to reflect on their understanding of tasks and to improve their future learning".

Steph Stewart's New Year's resolution is "to focus on keeping up conversational/ transactional Spanish with all year groups as this can often be curtailed due to time restrictions. Will do this by using songs at start of all lessons increasing variety of songs by year group"

Kate Kennedy's New Year’s resolution is "to focus on taking ideas for a walk with Year 5 and 6 to help them to write extended sentences independently and accurately"

Carol Hickson's New Year's resolution is "to focus on speaking and getting the children to talk about themselves".  She will be trialling games of speed dating and two truths and a lie with UKS2

Jayne Dewsnip's New Year's resolution is "to focus on gender with yr 3/4 to help them to use bilingual dictionaries more accurately and effectively"

Beth McCord's New Year's resolution is "to focus on speaking activities with Year 4 to help them build their confidence when speaking in front of their peers"

Carmelina Preter's  New Year's resolution is "to focus on imperative verbs with Year 6 and to help them gain a better understanding of verbs and 1st, 2nd 3rd person". 

Sally Riley's New Year's resolution is "to focus on giving reasons and opinions in Year 6 to help the children to express themselves in Super Sentences"

Joanne Hornby's New Year's resolution is "to focus on writing with Year 6 for example how to write accurately using the verb to be ".