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NEW MFL Events Update..... 

New Curriculum, New Year 7: New Challenges

Thurs 9th Oct 2008

Bay Hotel, Newquay

Cost per applicant: FREE

How to address the needs of year 7 pupils in the context of KS2 MFL and the new KS3 Programme of Study.

The variety of KS2 MFL experiences in terms of language, content and methodology means that teaching in year 7 now presents new challenges which cannot be overlooked if we wish to address the needs of all learners.

 

New Curriculum, New Year 7: New Challenges

Fri 26th Sept 2008

UWE, Bristol

Cost per applicant: FREE

Details as above.

 

EDL08European Day of Languages

Fri 26th Sept 2008

The European Day of Languages (EDL), a Council of Europe initiative, is held annually on the 26 September to celebrate language and cultural diversity. The Day was first celebrated in 2001, the European Year of Languages and involves more people every year.

 

CiLT EDL08 Resources available now. Click here

  

New Curriculum, New Year 7: New Challenges

Thurs 25th Sept 2008

Exeter Ct Hotel, Exeter

Cost per applicant: FREE

*FULLY BOOKED*

Details as above.

 

A New Literacy

Weds 24th Sept 2008

Cost per applicant: £80

This one-day course is intended for those teachers who are teaching, or preparing to teach languages at KS2 but wish to develop their understanding of the broader primary curriculum and primary strategy. It will also be suitable for secondary or peripatetic teachers who support language teaching in primary schools and primary links coordinators from secondary schools.

 

 

To View the full list of events, please click here.


Comenius South West Newsletter (Summer 2008 Issue)

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Again, many thanks to everyone who contributed to the Summer edition of the Comenius South West Newsletter.

 

To View or Download, please click here

 

If you would like to share news of language related events, initiatives or successes in your area, please contact Mark at Comenius SW:

 Mark.Haley@uwe.ac.uk

 


Routes into Languages

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The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has recently agreed to fund a programme to encourage the take-up of language courses in England. Routes into Languages will be funded from HEFCE’s Strategic Development Fund and follows the Roberts review into Strategic and Vulnerable Subjects published in June 2005.

 

Click here for further information   

 


 

Phone a Friend"PHONE A FRIEND"

 

If you are teaching a language in KS2 and would like advice on anything from pronunciation to policy you will be able to phone our KS2 Consultant and leave a message. If we don’t have the answer to your query we will make it our business to find out.

 

07917 085231

N.B. This is a mobile phone number and you will be charged according to the rates set by your service provider.


Meet the Comenius South West Team

Irene Wilkie

Irene Wilkie

Email: Irene.Wilkie@UWE.ac.uk

 

Geoff Grigg

 

Geoff Grigg

Email: ggrigg@cornwall.gov.uk

 

Chris Wakely

Chris Wakely

Email: chris.wakely@devon.gov.uk

 

 

Comenius SW is a partnership between the University of the West of England (Bristol), Devon Education Services and Cornwall County Council. The Comenius Regional Manager is Irene Wilkie, the Devon office is run by Chris Wakely and the Cornwall office by Geoff Grigg.

 


Comenius South West

 

Rm5E8, Frenchay Campus, University of the West of England, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1QY

 

Tel: 0117 3282391 | Fax: 0117 328 2295 | email: ComeniusSW@uwe.ac.uk

 

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Comenius SW Partners

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