February 1st 2010

I've uploaded some more Primary Spanish resources and also the remaining resources from the New Sunderland Primary French resources - Carnival of the Animals.

January 26th 2010

News about audio files: I've just uploaded the first German audio files (19 of them) and over 60 new French ones. If you're a Primary French practitioner, you'll find just about all the QCA Scheme of Work covered. In addition, MFL Sunderland now podcasts. You can download and subscribe to them here. Many thanks to our FLAs - they've worked really hard.

January 8th 2010

Happy New Year !

There are some new resources on the website for today for Spanish (primary and secondary), French and German.

Also check our estrellas for some new games and the first German games.

We have a free event at the Stadium of Light on January 26th for all teachers of Primary Languages in Sunderland LA. Click here to find out more information.

December 14th 2009

Time for an update. I've been doing little uploads every couple of weeks, but not big enough to really warrant a paragraph here.

There are lots more Primary Spanish resources as well as others for Key Stages 3 and 4. There are also some new Christmas resources for French and Spanish. Thanks again to all the people who have contributed resources.

If you haven't already, click onto our international advent calendar for some intercultural understanding at the end of term.

Enjoy your holiday !

October 5th 2009

Ruth and Carole at St Aidan's have now completed the Year 4 scheme of work for Primary French, and I have now uploaded all of it except for the Carnival of the Animals lessons. Ruth has asked if anyone who has used the primary resources could send some feedback via the MFL Sunderland Google group.

I have also added some more Primary Spanish resources.

Thanks for your continued support of the site - the hit counter for September shows an increase of 5000 on September 2008.

September 14th 2009

Welcome back to the new school year!

There have been a few changes to the languages world of late, and some of the changes that I have made to the site today reflect that. Firstly, you'll be aware that the Comenius Centre network no longer exists, and that their role has been taken over by Links into Languages. You'll notice a new button for Links NE on the navigation bar on the left of the screen. Secondly, two more Sunderland secondary schools have re-opened as Academies. I have updated the secondary schools list accordingly.

Thank you to everyone who continues to use the website. The monthly hits are going up and up. Last month the site passed the 1 million hits mark.

There are also plenty more resources for you. I have added the flashcards and the sound files to the Foundation and KS1 resources produced by the Sunderland consortium, and there are plnty of others too, including Revision Starters for GCSE German. Thanks very much to Sandie and Jamila for those.

August 13th 2009

Hope everyone is having a relaxing and enjoyable holiday. I've been uploading more resources over the holiday, in particular for Italian (thanks Paola!) and for Primary Spanish.

May 4th 2009

I've just uploaded the first Spanish audio files. I hope these will prove useful to the non-specialist and also to those of you who like to make your own listening resources.

April 24th 2009

Happy 5th birthday MFL Sunderland !

February 25th 2009

Another 30 or so resources, bringing the total to over 2300. Also have a look at estrellas where I've put a number of interactive activities to help your GCSE pupils with vocabulary building.

January 28th 2009

Latest MFL Sunderland news: the latest Sunderland primary materials are now available for download. Very many thanks to Ruth Moreland at St Aidan's Language College.

Are you a primary practitioner ? Then you should book yourself a place on the "Moving on up" conference which takes place on March 23rd at Dance City in Newcastle. You'll find out how to use music, dance, song, drama, parachute games and other physical activities in primary languages teaching. Have a look at the flyer.

January 19th 2009

A belated Happy New Year to all ! Here are some new resources to inspire you during these dark and cold days. I've uploaded some for French, Spanish, German and Italian. Please keep the resources coming to mflsunderland@gmail.com, especially the Italian.

If you are a primary MFL practitioner in Sunderland, or a secondary MFL subject leader, please read the flyer about the Primary MFL Support Networks launch which will take place on February 4th. And if you haven't already, please have a read of our first Primary Newsletter.

The website had another bumper month hits-wise in December - over 39000 in the 19 days before we all broke up for the holidays. One day in the last week of term broke all records, with over 3200 hits in one day. Thank you for your continued support.

December 10th 2008

I've just finished putting over 60 new resources onto the site. French Key Stages 3-5, Spanish Key Stages 3 and 4, German Key Stages 3-5, some new French and Spanish Promethean flps and last but not least, the site's first Italian resources. Many thanks as ever to everyone who has sent me resources over the last month.

Also have a look at my French Christmas movie, which hopefully will give your pupils a stimulus for writing about Christmas in three tenses !

The site received in excess of 43000 hits last month, and regularly receives more than 2000 each week day.

November 10th 2008

There are over 50 new resources on the site today, mostly German, including the first German Thinking Skills. Many thanks again to everyone for their contributions. Thanks to our new Primary French Assistants, there is also a new set of French sound files to support the KS2 QCA Scheme of Work, but which I'm sure will be useful elsewhere as well.

If you do the Edexcel GCSE, please feel free to have a look at the support materials which I have put together for my school here.

The site now receives in excess of 1500 hits a day, and in September and October received in excess of 37000.

September 14th 2008

You'll find 40 new resources on the site today. There are KS3 and KS4 for French, Spanish and German. Many thanks to everyone who has sent resources over the summer - they are much appreciated.

August 20th 2008

The unveiling of the new look.....

June 14th 2008

About 40 new resources. KS3, KS4 and starters and plenaries for French and Spanish. I have also reorganised the KS4 French in a bid to make the pages easier to use and the resources easier to find. There are now over 1200 free resources on the site.

May 16th 2008

If you teach Primary French, please have a look at the Sunderland Materials page. I have added 'Deux petits oiseaux - the movie' and also a sample Smartboard file for lesson 1 of the Sunderland Materials.

On the subject of the Interactive Whiteboard, I have finally got round to zipping the Promethean files so that hopefully you will actually be able to download them.

Over the last few weeks I have also added more resources for French, Spanish and German. Many thanks again to all of you who have contributed resources.

April 24th 2008

Have just added some new resources, French, Spanish and German. If you are in the run-up to Spanish GCSE, I recommend that you check out the Spanish starters and plenaries, which will be very useful for revision. Thanks Marie !

Please also have a watch of my first stopmotion animation.

March 28th 2008

More new sound files and accompanying materials. This takes us up to Unit 34 of the Sunderland materials.

March 16th 2008

Lots of new sound files on the primary pages. They are intended to accompany the Sunderland primary materials. Some files are to help the non-specialist teacher to practise their own pronunciation and some of these also have listening exercises and PowerPoints attached. We've got up to Unit 18 so far.

January 11th 2008

Happy New Year to all our users, and thanks for continuing to use the site. November and December saw record numbers of visitors to the site. On one of the last days of term before Christmas the daily record was broken, with 2336 hits in one day.

I have just added some more KS4 Spanish resources and bits and bobs of French.

Thanks to all who have sent resources recently.

September 13th 2007

Happy new school year to everyone.

Some new resources - have a look in French KS4 resources for the Simpsons' take on Personal Identification, and you can find a similar German PowerPoint in the German KS4 resources. If you want to create yourself some Simpsons characters, go to the Simpsons Movie website and create some avatars.

Also some French KS3 grammar on the Simple Future.

July 10th 2007

The start of a lot of new resources that I have started to upload. You'll find a lot more German already and there are plenty more to come.

If you haven't already, have a look at Les Aventures de Lune Landsard (French) and Las Aventuras de Luna D. Lendras (Spanish). It's a series of comic strips designed for KS3 and maybe KS2 to cover as many language areas as possible. If having seen the characters you have an idea for a story please email it ! Progress on these is likely to be slow as the artwork is quite labour intensive, but I hope you think it's worth it.

If you are in a Sunderland school and will be hosting a Foreign Language Assistant next year, please send them the link to our pages to give them lots of info about the job that they will be doing.

June 7th 2007

Over 60 new resources for KS3 Spanish, mostly grammar with some worksheets. Some German to follow soon, more always welcome !

May 24th 2007

Lots of changes and updates:

Visitor record updated for February, March and April 2007. The average number of visitors to the site for the period January-April 2007 is 18248 per month. For the same period in 2006 it was 8795, and 468 in 2005.

The survey told me that people aren't looking at the news, quotes, events and gallery pages as much as some of the others. I have removed the Events and Gallery buttons from the navigation panel on the left and put all of these sections under the button News & Information.

You'll see another change to the buttons on the left as well - a much more prominent copyright statement, following advice from them that know about such things.

I have also rearranged the primary French resources and links so that hopefully they are easier to navigate and things are easier to find.

February 9th 2007

Have just uploaded over 90 new resources - 97 to be precise. There are many for KS4 Spanish, mainly grammar, and a lot for teaching the Passé Composé in French.

20950 hits in January - another record.

January 8th 2006

Happy New Year everybody ! Just replacing the Christmas homepage with something a little less festive and updating the visitor record. During termtime in December (which for most of us had finished by 22nd) there were over 18000 hits to the site. 11th December broke all the records, there being 1438 hits on that day alone. Thanks !

Please keep the resources coming !

December 11th 2006

Some more German Christmas resources - thanks very much to Ceri. Also quite a few new French resources - KS3 Grammar and Worksheets, and another Scheme of Work plus resources for KS3 SEN Spanish.

December 1st 2006

Nearly 20000 hits last month ! Yesterday broke the record for the most hits in one day, with 983.

I have added some more to the Christmas resource pages and got rid of the dead links. If you are or are hosting a primary Foreign Language Assistant, you will find some more resources for them.

November 20th 2006

Some more French and German resources for KS3 - many thanks to Jacqui and Anne-Marie.

I've also sorted all the KS3 French resources out into topics and (I hope) made it easier for you to find what you are looking for. I'd be very grateful for any feedback on this. If you like it, I'll do Spanish and German in the same way.

Thanks for the 13634 hits in October - not bad for a month with a half-term in it!

October 13th 2006

Lots more French KS3 resources in the Worksheets, Grammar and Texts sections. Thanks Marissa !

October 9th 2006

A new page for Primary FLAs

13814 hits in September - thank you !

September 29th 2006

I've just updated the FLAs' pages and added a new page for teachers in schools that are hosting FLAs.

August 23rd 2006

Getting ready for the new school year.

You'll notice that the homepage is a bit different, with a new link to the European Day of Languages information provided by CILT. In addition there are many new resources, including KS3 French worksheets and Spanish A'level materials. Thanks Sally and Marissa ! There are many more to come.

July 5th 2006

The next lot of primary materials are ready - many thanks to Alison Steward. You will find them available to download free on the Primary French page until the end of this term. After that Sunderland teachers can find them on the VLE, everyone else will have to buy them.

Nearly 15000 hits in June. Thank you !

June 26th 2006

I expect you've just received your FLA dossiers. I've been updating the FLA pages on the site, so feel free to send the web address to your FLA so that they can find out about the job they are coming to. If there is any information that you think would help your FLA that could feature on this page, drop me a line.

June 12th 2006

The site received over 11000 hits in May. That's about 360 people a day using it. Most people seem to use it for resources. If you're one of them, please have a look around at the other pages - there's lots more to see ! All donations of resources, links, pictures for the Gallery, accounts of events etc. will be very gratefully received. The site will only continue to thrive if there is give as well as take.

New things added today:

Primary Spanish
Resources from the June 5th MFL Network meeting

May 22nd 2006

More KS3 German resources, KS3 Spanish and the last few GCSE revision starters.

May 1st 2006

Hope you all enjoyed your Easter holidays! The site had 6869 hits in April, which means that during the Easter holidays you were quite rightly doing a lot less work than usual.

I've just put on some German resources for KS3, AS and CBLC. There are plenty more to come.

April 3rd 2006

This month MFL Sunderland celebrates its 2nd birthday. I uploaded the site for the first time on 24th April 2004, and have watched the hit count grow from 2 or 3 a month to 11933 in March 2006. I'm glad the site is proving so useful to so many people. As long as you keep using it, I'll keep doing it.

I've just added some new French GCSE revision starters, as well as some more links for French and German and a few KS3 French resources.

Happy Easter holidays to you all, especially if you've already broken up!

March 13th 2006

A few tweaks here and there - some more resources, some more links.

If you feel inspired to incorporate the forthcoming World Cup into your lessons, please visit our sister site International Education Sunderland, where you'll find lots of ideas to get you started.

February 21st 2006

I've changed the layout of the Primary French page and added a substantial list of links for PMFL. Thanks for all the feedback you've been sending in response to my Forum post !

February 16th 2006

Some more GCSE French starters and CBLC German, among others.

January 30th 2006

Many more resources for KS3 French and Spanish, some more links. I have uploaded quite a few of the resources in PDF format as this keeps them smaller for downloading. Please post some messages on the Forum !

January 9th 2006

Happy New Year to all, and thankyou for the 8096 hits which the site received last month. I've just put on some GCSE French revision starters as well as a few outstanding Christmas resources.

December 19th 2005

French and Spanish puzzles and links. French A'level resources.

December 12th 2005

French, Spanish and German resources and puzzles. Fancy trying French sudoku or Spanish sudoku ?!

December 5th 2005

New Christmas homepage to with a direct link to the Christmas resources.

The site recorded over 6500 hits in November.

November 21st 2005

I've added a Forum button to the navigation on each page. Please give it a go.

The LEA has been renamed "Sunderland Local Authority" so I've made the necessary name changes throughout.

Lots of new German GCSE resources and KS3 French today, not forgetting (finally) a German PowerPoint countdown clock !

November 16th 2005

MFL Sunderland now has a discussion forum hosted by Google Groups. Have a go and let me know what you think.

October 31st 2005

I've added a Copyright Statement to the site, which is another requirement of the NGfL.
Also lots of new French resources - KS3, KS4, Thinking Skills and Starters and Plenaries.
The site has had over 5000 hits this month - thankyou to everyone, and I hope you find it all useful.

October 30th 2005

Many new German resources including CBLC (thanks Andrea!), plus French KS3 resources and links for French and German.

October 17th 2005

Format and size added to all the other resources - German, Christmas, Thinking Skills, Anthologies, News and Views, Network and General resource pages. Just need to zip the Promethean files and it's all done.

October 3rd 2005

Format and size added to most of the French and Spanish resources.
New page with tips for downloading.

September 28th 2005

More worksheets for KS3 French, KS3 Spanish (SEN), KS4 French and French Starters and Plenaries. Also changes to the Primary French page.

September 26th 2005

Have started the long task of adding the format and size of each document to the resource pages, to conform with NGfL guidance. The French puzzle page is an example.

September 12th 2005

Lots and lots of materials from the Sunderland MFL Network (Thanks Lynn!!)
Spanish KS4 worksheets, grammar and texts
A few French resources

September 11th 2005

Some new links (French, Spanish, German and General)
Some more stories for "In the News"

Visitor record for MFL Sunderland