Making progress 3
The evidence shared by Primary Languages Network teachers shows examples of the four core skills and language learning skills.The examples have been captured in the classroom on the day that the learning took place from KS1 to UKS2. We hope that these examples help primary schools have confidence in their own primary languages teaching and learning plus we hope that the evidence in the Making Progress” blogposts so far support secondary colleagues in their developing understanding of the language learning in primary schools. (Links or our Making Progress 1 - Sept to Oct 2018 and Making Progress 2 Oct- Dec 2018)
The evidence in this post has been gathered from a sample of our 330 plus Primary Languages Network schools in French,Spanish and German (KS1 to UKS2) between end of Christmas term 2018 and Feburary half term 2019 .
The title photo is taken from our Canon Burrows CE Case Study video (December 2018).
It looks like lots of our schools have been taking children on virtual trips to target language countries or receiving and writing letters and cards to children in partner schools abroad. You can also see here examples of classroom learning games, speaking and listening activities, independent writing,sound spelling and appropriate grammar actvities.
So let’s start with children at St Gerard’s in Year 2 meeting their Spanish friends via Skype - a regular occurence at St Gerard’s with our associate Primary Languages Network teacher, Ana,
Y2 got to meet their Spanish friends in Tenerife this morning via @Skype - Feliz Navidad amigos!! We talked and sang together in both Spanish and English😊🇪🇸🌍🎄🎅🏼🖥 #StGerardsSpanish #StGerardsComputing #FriendsAroundTheWorld @JanetLloydnet pic.twitter.com/q1gDnRj4Yi
— St. Gerard's (@StGerardsWidnes) December 12, 2018
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From school to Spain and back again in one day.Whole school virtual visit to Spain by primary school children and staff..
Safely back from a wonderful trip to Spain! An amazing day celebrating the Spanish language across the world! @MertonBankP @JanetLloydnet #Spanish #primarylanguages @ManchesterAirp pic.twitter.com/NBEh9Xz9fo
— Mrs Clay (@MrsClayMB) February 6, 2019
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Including visits to other Spanish speaking countries too and also comic book stories.
For Spanish day, our target country was Peru. We learnt about famous Peruvian landmarks and then created our own holiday comic strip using the Spanish days of the week! On Friday we’re going to create our own artwork inspired by the Nazca lines. 🤗 @JanetLloydnet @MertonBankP pic.twitter.com/tsHxwzssDT
— Miss Brussels (@MissBrusselsMB) February 6, 2019
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Establishing good language learning habits for the future.Taking challenges home and practising language with the rest of the family.
Great idea from our Primary Languages Network associate teacher, Irene. Her classes are taking home their favourite words and phrases from lessons to be “teachers at home” and help others to learn Spanish too 🤗 pic.twitter.com/DqDINRUWK3
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) January 15, 2019
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French Year 3 beginners and a game of Quiz Quiz Swap to practise months of the year.
Year 3 enjoying playing a game of Quiz Quiz Swap to help them learn the months in French. @FPS_3_Charlies @FPS_3_Matilda @FPS_3_MFingers #fairfieldfrench pic.twitter.com/8Md7YxD5Cw
— Fairfield French (@FairfieldFrench) December 10, 2018
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Firts year of language learning and starting to explore grammar.Practising plurals with Year 3 and work on animal nouns in Spanish.
Practising plurals and making progress in primary Spanish in year 3 at Haveley Hey with our associates PLN teacher , Irene H. pic.twitter.com/75rNCQIij5
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) February 14, 2019
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Emphasis on sound spelling links.Revisiting letters and sounds in Year 4 and gathering evidence of understanding by encouraging children’s own notes about how to pronounce tricky Spanish letters.
Super Spanish letters and sounds practise with Y4 Barrowhall and @robert_mfl . Great to see our SOW and resources in action. Like the added twist of own pronunciation guides to #evidence and demonstrate #mastery too pic.twitter.com/wqLjPfuEvF
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) January 16, 2019
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Simple accurate sentence writing with a touch of creativity. Creating our own alien family on the moon. Year 4 Spanish.
Super Spanish sentences to create alien family characters in Year 4 today at Barrowhall CP with their associate PLN teacher Zara T. Love the way the children created names for the children based on Spanish phonics too 🤗 pic.twitter.com/szhOMkReBw
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) January 18, 2019
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Busy in French in Year 4 too, creating our own alien characters too and practising accurate simple personal information sentences.Thanks to Queen’s Park for this photo.
Year 4 ,creating Spanish spoken texts and preparing to create their Viva Video movie books , to introduce their own descriptions of members of our “Alien Family” .
Fabulous Year 4 Spanish film making using Viva Video to create own film clips about our Primary Languages Network Alien Family @BewseyLodge with our associate PLN teacher 🤗⭐️@joedale @BetsyBelleTeach @SWilson_MFL #mfltwitterati pic.twitter.com/69T74n6zBJ
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) February 8, 2019
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Creating videos of their own #Spanish alien descriptions booklets was a huge success at Havely Hey CP with our associate #primary #languages Spanish teacher Irene H. pic.twitter.com/pCiiNKRg59
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) February 7, 2019
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Snowy day Spanish and a great opportunity to work with bilingual dictionaires and explore words to describe snomwen in Spanish.
It’s “snow” time with Y4 Barrowhall CP and our associate teacher @robert_mfl . Great to respond to weather outside and be calm, creative and link to our Y4 Spring 1 focus on parts of body too! pic.twitter.com/r8mYx4eK8K
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) January 30, 2019
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From nouns to adjectives and now to verbs. Conjugating the verb “to be” in French and linking this to our panto character lesson plan in Year 5 French .
Year 5 performing as pantomime characters to practise the verb être - to be @FPS_5_Ravenclaw @FPS_5_Hufflepuf @FPS_5_Gryffindo #fairfieldfrench pic.twitter.com/BN6AKlg5bj
— Fairfield French (@FairfieldFrench) January 14, 2019
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French and celebrations. Practising writing simple descriptive sentences to design Epiphany crowns in Year 4 and 5 classes around the Primary Languages Network schools at the start of 2019 .
Freeze frame drama and performance in Spanish with Year 5
Freeze frame festivities in Spanish with @joanne_hornby . Barrowhall Y5 investigating our 3 Kings parade video and creating the commentary and performance to go with it. Love this 🤗 pic.twitter.com/P9Tkny4qHo
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) January 8, 2019
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German in primary .Year 5 and 6 learning German and making links with penfriends in Germany.
So exciting! Receiving letters from penfriends in Germany. A great way to start a lesson at Sankey Valley St James with our associate PLN #German teacher, @SWilson_MFL. @yorkshirejohn #mfltwitterati pic.twitter.com/cxJGqiPKBK
— Janet Lloyd (@JanetLloydnet) February 7, 2019
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Receiving Christmas letters from penfriends in Spain -UKS2 Spanish language learners.
Pupils at Oakwood Community Primary School receiving letters and cards from their partner school in Spain @Oakwood_Avenue @Schools_On_Line @uk_glas pic.twitter.com/CkYZDZz5WL
— GLC (@GlobalLinking) January 20, 2019
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Taking a cultural and language learning virtual visit to Paris and Montmartre,practising spoken French role plays on the virtual visit around the city.
Pupils at St.Monica’s boarded a plane to Paris, saw all the sights and enjoyed lunch at Montmartre #bonappétit #virtualvisit #googleearth #PLN #greenscreen #frenchteachers #primaryfrench https://t.co/7u2qSL1qiz @JanetLloydnet pic.twitter.com/lf48bLzwNQ
— Betsy Belle (@BetsyBelleTeach) February 11, 2019
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Continuing to develop and extend writing skills:Year 6 French and extended sentence writing,sharing sporting opinions.
Opinions on sport. The French lang element of our #stayhealthy project. Thanks to PLN Y6 SOW we can write extended sentences @QueensCoEURC🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/aMVqOJYVEz
— Mrs Taylor QP (@caroltaylor722) February 12, 2019