ALL Bristol Primary Hub Meeting

This hub meeting will be the second of two sessions this year to help members prepare for the new Ofsted framework that comes into effect from September. To ensure that schools are offering a broad curriculum, Ofsted may do a ‘Deep Dive’ into subjects including languages. They will be interested in three aspects, which we will discuss over two meetings on March 11th and June 10th 2020.

In our meeting on March 10th will look at:

INTENT

The school’s aims for language learning, largely reflected in policies and vision statements

and

IMPLEMENTATION

How teaching is delivered through schemes of work, lesson planning and all the extras (songs, stories, cross-curricular learning…)

The most inspiring sessions are those when we hear from YOU, dear teachers, so don’t be shy about contributing all those ideas and questions!

At our March hub we need your help! Please send us a short email ASAP if you can help with any of the following so we can put together a detailed programme. They do NOT need to be time-consuming in advance on your part:

1. Share any experiences of Ofsted preparation from your schools or gleaned from friends, contacts and media.
2. Discuss the vital elements of an MFL policy and scheme of work. If your school has a policy and/or scheme of work (and doesn’t mind sharing) it would be brilliant if you could let us have copies/links and be prepared to give (literally) a two minute run down of the most important points.

Do you use any of these schemes?

Lightbulb languages

Cave languages

Language Angels

Culturethèque

Early start

ilanguages

Primary Languages

Salut

Golden Daffodils

Rockalingua

Or outside providers (Lingotot, Kidslingo)

Tell us what you think!

If you don’t yet have a policy or scheme in place, or think it could do with an update come and get some ideas to take back.

3. Even the most comprehensive schemes need supplementing with little extras. As always, we want to share good practice and ideas, so we are looking for four people to spend four minutes each sharing one ‘takeaway’ lesson idea that has worked for you.

Thank you in advance – we look forward to hearing from you and hope to see you on March 11th!

For more info or to send your views on any of the above please contact:

Hannah White [email protected]

Each hub involves a group of local schools and is run by volunteers. The Bristol ALL Primary Hub is open to all local teachers in the region, not just the city of Bristol.

Register for your FREE place here.

Contact [email protected] for further information.

New members always welcome!

Hannah and Sarah

ALL Primary MFL Hub for the Bristol Area