Thank you to everyone who attended "Then & Now" on March 17th.  I hope you found it useful.

We are making the resources from the event available for you to download freely and use for your own personal development or to help other teachers of languages in your school.

Keynote address by Mark Purves
“Putting the ‘Mmmm!’ factor into your lessons: Music Makes Meaning Memorable”
Download Mark's notes
(PDF 57 KB)
Mark's blog - loads of ideas for using music and singing in the MFL classroom

Fun with Phonics - reproduced here with the kind permission of Sarah Sharpe
Fun with Phonics
(Zipped folder 4.8 MB)

Find the Difference
(Zipped folder 6 MB)

Places in Town presentation
(PDF 1.5 MB)
Places in Town flashcards
(PDF 940 KB)
Places in Town tiny cards for sentence building
(PDF 1 MB)
More ideas for presenting new vocabulary

Plenary address:
What's next for Primary Languages?
(MS PowerPoint 3.2 MB)

A big thank you to everyone who attended "Spring into Primary Languages" on March 9th. It was lovely to see you all, and I hope you found it useful.

We'd like to make our resources from the day available for you to download freely and use for your own personal development or to help other teachers of languages in your school.

Clare, Ruth, Carole, Janet, Janet and Caoimhe.

Presenting longer phrases
(MS PowerPoint 254 KB)
Presenting Longer Phrases - resources
(MS PowerPoint 334 KB)
Weather flashcards
(MS PowerPoint07 195 KB)
Weather word flashcards
(MS Word 24 KB)
Sentence cards - weather and seasons
(MS Word 27 KB)

Conscience Alley
(MS PowerPoint07 446 KB)
Conscience Alley flashcards
(MS Word07 1.25 MB)
Conscience Alley notes
(MS Word 16 KB)

Descriptions with links to Literacy
(MS Word 82 KB)

Introduction - Audit and Practical Ideas
(MS PowerPoint 6 MB)

Presenting new vocabulary
(MS PowerPoint 1.2 MB)

Joining in a poem
(MS PowerPoint 1.5 MB)
Scaffolding puzzle
(PDF 36 KB)
Le retour du printemps
(MS PowerPoint 779 KB)

or view and listen to the presentations here: