mlpsblog

New course begins!

catriona — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:07:54 +0000

Welcome to MLPS training! This blog will support you during your MLPS training course and hopefully beyond! It was started last year for the group of teachers who went through their training, so I thought it might get things off to a good start if we updated it a bit for the new term.

We can use the blog to:

keep uptodate with each other and with current events in languages -see the previous posts and pages
share resources and useful websites
catch up on or practise any language issues you’d like to consolidate on from the training sessions – we pack a lot in and I’m aware that some of you would appreciate the chance to practise a bit more in your own time.

There will be plenty more news and updates, so please bookmark this link and check it regularly. Also – your comments and feedback are always welcome, so please don’t hesitiate to leave a note or simply get in touch at anytime.

I’m very much looking forward to seeing you all next week (28/10) at Forthbank for our first training session. If you’ve got any questions you’d like to ask, please just email or phone me: catriona.oates@stir.ac.uk 07747 627751.

best wishes to all

Catriona

The dates we will meet are as follows:

Welcome to mlpsblog – the blog for developing languages in the primary classroom

catriona — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:54:58 +0000

This blog was created to help support primary teachers as they participated in their primary languages training. As the course is so short, some other sort of forum was required to share and develop ideas for class activities. Whether you want some information on background or current developments, or if you simply would like to find out what everyone else is doing, I hope there will eventually be something for everyone; success will depend on your participation and feedback. If you don’t find what you’re looking for, or if you are looking for something on a particular languages theme, please email me or leave a comment. I will try to keep updating, so keep checking! Email me if you have anything you’d like to share on catriona.oates@stir.ac.uk. Thanks for visiting.

Primary Languages E-zine

catriona — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:03:05 +0000

Here is a link to CILT London’s latest electronic magazine for all things primary languages There is an interesting mix of articles with issues like Assessment is for Learning and second language aquisition being addressed, as well as classroom practice.

IWB activities – Smartboard and Promethean

catriona — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:20:06 +0000

A big thank you to Wendy Adeniji for sharing all the resources she has developed for IWBs on her website. Wendy contributed a well received session at the communicate 08 conference

She has shared loads of useful activites in French, German and Spanish for Smart and Promethean boards. Hope you find something useful for your own classes – I’m sure you will. I’d like to know if anyone tries any of the Harry Potter themed activites?

Africa study

catriona — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:30:09 +0000

See the sharing practice page for the first of the plans from coaching in context – it might seem a bit ambitious – I would think youd need to give yourselves about 6 weeks for something like this; good fun all the same!

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Click on the little green cité sciences widget here to calculate your “empreinte écologique!” This is something I’m hoping to develop as part of a cross-curricular project: watch this space!