Languages in my Classroom - Coventry June 26th
Today I had the pleasure of speaking at Coventry's Primary Language Conference. After a morning at WCPS teaching Year 6 who were rewriting The Snack Song (more of that later in the week when I blog Unit23 of QCA Spanish SOW), I raced over to Coventry to deliver two sessions entitled Languages i my classroom. Sian James, the Primary Languages Strategy Consultant for Coventry had asked me to split each session into three sections - my top tips, some of my favourite games and then to teach something as I would in the classroom. Phew - lots to fit into an hour!
So, speaking in hyperdrive (what's new? exactly!), I launched into a shorter version of the presentation I did at Tile Hill Wood last week (see my blog post for the notes) before highlighting some of favourite games - see below for notes.
I showed how to play some of the games as I endeavoured to teach Unit 11 of QCA SOW - El Carnaval de los animales in 20 minutes (it took 6-7hours with Yr4- and we might've done so much more!). La orquesta went down well as did my attempts to draw animals in Pictionary and the delegates also proved to be excellent lipreaders. (all resources can be downloaded from a previous blog post!)
The conference was really well attended and had a real buzz about it. Coventry is the home of the Language Investigators model of PLL, and the updated version will be launched in September. Sian has also been working on a brilliant resource called Living Languages, featuring six Coventry children whose first language is not English, celebrating languages, the children who speak them, and the similarities and differences we can see through their eyes. The official launch of this will be Sept 25th - more news nearer the time. Well done, Sian for a really successful day!
Will this resource be available to people outside Coventry. It looks very promising and along the lines of the way we are thinking of going.
Anonymous said... 2 July 2008 at 17:46
Thanks for this Lisa and thanks for coming over and being such a hit with our teachers! In answer to Barbara, the resource is being packaged with Investigating Languages but I am sure once launched we could arrange something.
Anonymous said... 4 July 2008 at 16:00
Thank you Barbara for your comment - and thanks Sian for the kind comments - and, more importantly, answering Barbara's question.
Lisa xx
lisibo said... 4 July 2008 at 17:45
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