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Conference Programme
08.50 Registration and Coffee
09.10 Welcome and Introduction - Louise Harty, MFL
Coordinator
09.30 Stephen Fawkes, BBC Active and Association of
Language Learners
10.30 Coffee
10.45 - 11.45 Workshop 1
11.50 - 12.50 Workshop 2
12.50 - 1.40 Lunch
1.40 - 2.15 Creative Partnerships Project:
students of St Benet Biscop High School performing their
play "Celebrité, moi?"
2.15 - 3.15 Workshop 3
3.15 Conclusion and resources
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Workshop Choices
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1A Language
Learning Teachnology
Presenter:
Chris Harte, Cramlington Learning Village
 This
session will interest anyone from any key stage who is
interested in using technology to enhance language
learning. Teachnology is about looking at effective,
challenging resources which allow learners to produce
work they can be proud of and build up into a portfolio
in the target language. All resources demonstrated are
free, tried and tested. You will leave being confident
in glogging, goanimating, stixying, tweeting and more!”
Audience: All
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1B
They’ll talk when they are ready
Presenters: Isobel Anderson and Ruth Foley, Cambo
First School
Discover how narrative techniques used in the oral
tradition of storytelling can encourage emergent talk in
young learners.
Examples will be taken from traditional
nursery rhymes, Dinocrocs and some of our own
fairytales.
Audience: First, Primary
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1C
Astérix
Presenter: Di Ellison, Ovingham Middle School
This
module of work could be pitched at Y6 and Y7. It's a
lovely unit which can be easily tweaked to suit a range
of abilities. Everyone loved the magic potion lessons,
plenty for all abilities and imaginations could run
riot!!
Audience:
Middle, Upper Primary
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1D
Planning for the creative curriculum in first
schools
Presenters: Sue Day, ML Consultant with Alex
Palmer, Whittonstall First and Vicky Patisson, Hexham
East First School
This workshop will look at how two first schools
involved in a multilingual project planned to integrate
3 European languages into their curriculum.
Audience: First, Primary
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1E
Creative Thinking Tools
Presenter: Louise Harty, Northumberland Languages
Consultant
Struggling to get your pupils thinking creatively? Come
and try out some thinking tools that will provide a
framework for creative thinking.
Audience: All
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2A
Language Learning Teachnology
Presenter:
Chris Harte, Cramlington Learning Village
This
session will interest anyone from any key stage who is
interested in using technology to enhance language
learning. Teachnology is about looking at effective,
challenging resources which allow learners to produce
work they can be proud of and build up into a portfolio
in the target language. All resources demonstrated are
free, tried and tested. You will leave being confident
in glogging, goanimating, stixying, tweeting and more!”
Audience: All
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2B So now that they are
ready, let’s keep them talking!
Susan Rainford, Northumberland Outreach Consultant
 So now that they are ready, let’s keep
them talking!
Following on from the workshop “They’ll talk when they
are ready”, this workshop introduces our new range of
stories for young learners featuring The Enormous
Turnip, Jack and the Beanstalk and Little Red Hen. Come
and explore ways to further develop emergent talk in
early KS2.
Audience:
First, Primary
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2C Using film in the
languages classroom
Mike Tait and Holli McGuire
Tyneside
CinemaFilm is a great way to engage
learners and is an effective tool for developing
language and introducing students to cultural topics.
The focus of this session will be an overview of using
short foreign language films in the classroom, showing
you where to find them and
exploring how they might be used. Aimed primarily at
high school teachers, we will consider examples in
French, German and Spanish ...time permitting!
Audience: Secondary and KS5 teachers
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2D Be creative with 2Simple
software
Presenter: Pat Dempsey, Northumberland ICT &
E-learning Consultant
 All
Northumberland schools now have a full site licence for
the 2 Simple Collection - a suite of 29 easy to use
programs, a number of which are ideal for creative use
in the languages classroom. This is a hands on session
which will focus on the use of 2Publish+,
2Create a Story and 2Animate.
Participants will have the opportunity to use the new
Samsung Netbooks with built in webcams to try their hand
at making animated stories with sound, postcards,
leaflets, comic strips, newspapers, animations....etc
etc!
Audience: First, Primary,
Middle
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2E Planning for creativity
using the revised MFL framework for Key Stage 3
Presenter: Sue Brown, Northumberland Secondary
Strategy ConsultantThis workshop will investigate
what we mean by creativity in language learning and how
the revised KS3 framework could be used to promote it.
We will explore the background to the revised framework
and the principles that underpin it, as well as look at
the structure of the framework and its objectives.
The group will consider strategies for planning using
the objectives and will have the opportunity to share
ideas with colleagues.
Audience: Middle and High
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3A
Planning for the creative curriculum in middle schools
Presenter: Margaret Turner, Hexham Middle
SchoolCome and see how Hexham Middle have created
a multilingual flavour to their school, integrating many
of the Northumberland resources to support, deepen
knowledge and add authenticity to other curriculum areas.
Audience: Primary, Middle
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3B
Preparing for Christmas
Presenters: Sally-Anne Herriott, St Mary’s
First School, Berwick
Lots of fun activities in a
variety of languages to prepare for Christmas, including
arts and crafts, plays, intercultural galleries, carols
etc
Audience: First, Primary,
Middle
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3C
Language School of the Year Award
Presenter:
Gavin Johnston, St Michael’s First School, Alnwick
 St Michael’s First School in Alnwick is celebrating
Spanish School of the Year award which it received in
July 2009. Gavin will look at how their whole school
approach, ICT links, and creative curriculum based
around the fairy tales led to their selection.
Audience: First, Primary, Middle
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3D
Podcasting
Presenters: Pat Dempsey, Northumberland ICT &
E-learning Consultant
& Christophe Chevaugeon, Northumberland
Outreach ConsultantPodium is an easy to use podcasting software package
which is now licensed for use in all Northumberland
schools. Have you used it in your languages lessons yet?
Come along to this hands on session and have
fun creating your first podcast!
Audience: All
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3E Le
Café des Catas
Presenter: Louise Harty, Northumberland Languages
Consultant
 Want
to spice up your food and drink lessons? This “Fawlty Towers”
style animated soap opera will give you and your pupils just the
right turn of phrase for the most exasperating of situations.
You might struggle with the slang but your students will love
it! Complete with Dico d’Argot.
Audience: Middle, High
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Online booking is now open
Please book your place at the conference and make your
workshop selections by
Friday 3rd October.
Cost: Free to Northumberland schools, Out
of County Schools £99 |
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