Making real progress 1
Just as the slogan on the bag below states, we understand that language learning offers children the chance to explore the World and this goes beyond just academic value.However to enable some of the world of education to harness the power of primary languages, we are aware that evidence of progress is required,so this year my colleagues and I are going to intermittently generate progress blog posts. We will also be sharing this evidence on our Twitter feed too (@JanetLloydnet).
The evidence shared by Primary Languages Network teachers in a variety of settings ranging from small urban state primary schools to large academy trusts and one public school are examples of the four core skills and language learning skills captured in the classroom on the day the learning took place from KS1 to UKS2.Not the best but a fair range of examples of work. Evidence of progress can not be purely based upon the children’s ability to write sentences. Language learning is surely far more than just this. So let’s start with evidence that reaches out beyond language learning and adds value to every child’s progress. Let’s start with European Day of Languages 2018, Mindfulness in a foreign language,Yoga and Spanish/French super days and cultural exchanges.
European Day of Languages .Ready to smile at Claremont Primary Manchester today. Exploring /celebrating some of the home languages and Spanish the #primary language in school.Pick smiles from box,identify language. Make own language smiles to celebrate EDoL and language diversity pic.twitter.com/FfBqV33wPP
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) September 26, 2018
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Busy day in our schools to celebrate EDOL .Beth M’s classes are creating smiles in school community languages they know . Our “Everyone smiles in the same language”song has an extra added verse from St Elphin CE to share their school community languages - Hungarian. pic.twitter.com/8sLtWieMQA
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) September 26, 2018
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Mindfulness in French in action! Lovely to see this 🤗 https://t.co/iLhTcVE3ZX
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) September 26, 2018
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Great feedback from KS1 about our mindfulness videos. This time it’s the English videos and @DeprezPrez “I did the mindfulness video today with a year 1 class who had been in all lunchtime due to the rain...worked a treat 😉” https://t.co/DhsaSbYeHT
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) September 21, 2018
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It’s such a privilege to celebrate #EuropeanDayOfLanguages with such enthusiastic primary pupils. And to be able to showcase pupils’ home languages is a real pleasure too. Love my job! #EDL18 #PLN @JanetLloydnet @EWoodroffe @SWilson_MFL 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇩🇪🌍 pic.twitter.com/vAduf9Zli9
— Betsy Belle (@BetsyBelleTeach) September 28, 2018
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We loved having Mal in to share her life in Rouen. We watched the light show on the cathedral and she taught us all about William the Conquerer and Joan of Arc. @caroltaylor722 @CuriousMindsNW @Artsmarkaward @JanetLloydnet pic.twitter.com/aGDyuvOui6
— Mrs Atherton (@MrsAthertonQP) September 26, 2018
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Fabulous Spanish and yoga Super Day at Hope Academy. Contact us if you are interested in a super day of Spanish or French yoga in your #primary school. Contact details on our Primary Languages Network website. pic.twitter.com/iKH83Nv5Fp
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) September 28, 2018
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And now the first of a series of Twitter posts that we have shared as individual items and hope will help those who read this to gain an insight in to and maybe better understanding of what progress over time in primary languages really looks like. Remember this is our first evidence gathering of the academic year and is just a reflection of the first three to four weeks of our learning year 2018….
Exploring sounds of cries and calls in KS1 Spanish at Claremont CP 🤗 pic.twitter.com/Gy08H92739
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) September 26, 2018
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Hurrah. It’s arrived ! @EWoodroffe can now read the dinosaur story in #primary French to her KS1 learners. Fits in perfectly with the class dinosaur project. pic.twitter.com/6cVcmXiNHa
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) September 27, 2018
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Simple genius! @robert_mfl Y3 Spanish at Barrowhall today using numicin, practising Spanish written numbers 1-10. @MariaMher44 @Janroweljmu 🤗⭐️ pic.twitter.com/33xGE1vdce
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) September 25, 2018
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Great start at Sankey Valley with Y5 and Y6 and @SWilson_MFL . Reminding ourselves about why we learn languages and the wonderful World of language learning. pic.twitter.com/bJJK8ZxTGG
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) September 15, 2018
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Delighted to see growing staff confidence in own spoken French, willing and capable of teaching own class 🤗 https://t.co/m3hMeix3dM
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) September 26, 2018
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Fabulous! https://t.co/u6qtDmEgb0
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) September 13, 2018
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Evidence of Year 3 beginners Spanish emergent writing - hot off the press from @robert_mfl class today. @IanBauckham @NickGibbUK pic.twitter.com/2z1H6a2SJp
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) September 11, 2018
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Evidence gathering. Making links across curriculum - Spanish +Maths with numbers up to 30 with @robert_mfl
Year 4 mastery challenge, show how you make a 2 digit number in the thirties in Spanish. Linking it to maths, use of partitioning to explain the tens and ones @IanBauckham pic.twitter.com/6lQ2Iwab0L— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) September 19, 2018
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So simple pronunciation practise! Janet W's French Y5 classes "This week the Y5 classes have been looking at reasons we learn languages and how to say “back to school” in target language. Great fun rolling “r”s in C’est la Rentrée".Fits in with Ready Made French Y5 Autumn 1 SOW pic.twitter.com/RJf2h5a8Kv
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) September 13, 2018
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Super language detective work in German at Sankey Valley - we focussed on reading skills, particularly noticing the difference in sounds when umlauts are added - the difference between a and ä in the Smile song. Brilliant @SWilson_MFL #gettingGermangoingagain pic.twitter.com/K7EXYeBkJV
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) September 27, 2018
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Busy brains, warming up and getting working in Janet W's Spanish UKS2 classes "We got our brains working again by walking round class to find answer to phrase on our pieces of paper. Some children had questions and others had answers and they had to find their correct partners. pic.twitter.com/co6tw975Zt
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) September 13, 2018
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Class 5 working hard, building Spanish sentences about their likes & dislikes in subjects.@JanetLloydnet #StGerardsSpanish pic.twitter.com/rgLY4B8lsO
— St. Gerard's (@StGerardsWidnes) September 26, 2018
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Building extended sentences in Spanish that we can make again and again. Great activity for Y5 @StGerardsWidnes . Evidence of progress 🤗 pic.twitter.com/mFGkFPJ6Wm
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) September 26, 2018
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Evidence gathering. Year 5 French writing extended sentences based on feelings and emotions. Building upon familiar and attempting independent writing with conjunctions @IanBauckham @NickGibbUK pic.twitter.com/XARJ5iifPR
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) September 19, 2018
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Evidence gathering. Exploring links between languages and enjoying looking for clues. #primary purposeful language learning linked to whole school Roald Dahl Day celebrations @IanBauckham @NickGibbUK https://t.co/YfTqmmawud
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) September 13, 2018
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We loved Celebrating #RoaldDahlDay2018 by pretending to be different characters and asking key questions, translating book titles in Spanish and finding out who the party guests were @BoltonJnrGirls @JanetLloydnet pic.twitter.com/Ehr8oupP0D
— BoltonSchoolJnrGMFL (@BoltonJnrgMFL) September 17, 2018
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Reasoning,demonstration of mastery and some fun designing own Spanish emojis in #primarylanguages with @robert_mfl and UKS2 in Barrowhall CP. Yet more evidence gathering of progress too @EWoodroffe #mfltwitterati pic.twitter.com/11jJF91NdG
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) September 25, 2018
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Reasoning, mastery and #primary #Spanish in Year 6 with @robert_mfl and Barrowhall CP. Evidence of understanding and progress @EWoodroffe pic.twitter.com/24UmF6zRDu
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) September 25, 2018
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Evidence of progress gathering. Love this work today from pupil at St Johns CE and the comments by our associate PLN Spanish teacher . Now there’s evidence of progress ! pic.twitter.com/gafKURO4jc
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) October 1, 2018
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Evidence of revisiting and building upon spoken questions and answers about ourselves in Year 6 French (fourthe year of language learning) in @DeprezPrez class this morning .@IanBauckham @NickGibbUK pic.twitter.com/AIcXLqSgJ9
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) September 11, 2018
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Some of the amazing work completed by years 3-6. Combining our #Spanish learning with art #somanyskills #LearningPowers #MFL #Art @JanetLloydnet pic.twitter.com/IKtT47kNg7
— St Bernard's Primary (@StBernardsep) September 24, 2018