Circuit Breakers

Circuit Breakers

Interactive & independent home learning

Need to offer “home learning”?

We’ve created our “Circuit Breakers” in primary French and Spanish to help you do exactly that.

FREE resource to all Primary Languages Network members. (Accessed in “home learning” on your VLE dashboard).

Circuit breakers found under this button on member dashboards

There are three access points. Stage 1 (beginners), Stage 2 (second year of learning a language in KS2), and Stage 3/4 (for primary language learners who are ready for an extended challenge).

How does it work?

The resource can be popped on your own school intranet, or links can be emailed to parents and children and the Circuit Breakers can be downloaded and used on school or home devices.

There is a maximum of 5 components (Listen, Speak, Learn, Play, Remember) and behind the interactive buttons are activities designed and presented by native speaker experienced primary language teachers.

Themes are core elements of language learning and are linked to the PLN Click2Teach Schemes of Work.

Each focus practises familiar language and also has built-in challenges to maintain and boost language learning knowledge during a period of home learning.

From beginners to children with greater language learning skills and knowledge:

• Children practise sound-spelling with our native speaker videos.

• Listen and speak about themselves using our native speaker video clips:

• Play interactive language learning games to recall and retrieve language .

• Explore at every stage, appropriate grammar points, from nouns to adjectives and common present tense verbs.

Consolidate language practised, in creative reading and writing activities.

Circuit Breakers are here to help your children keep up with their language learning when they are out of school for a period of time.

To find out more about Primary Languages Network and Circuit Breakers you can contact PLN here.