Rachel Hawkes presented “When less is definitely more: integrating planned and spontaneous target language use with content teaching” at the annual Association for Language Learning Conference in Manchester on 13 March 2020. The workshop focused on the decisions that inform teacher and student use of the target language and English in secondary foreign language classrooms.…
Read MoreNCELP has launched its first assessments, which are fully compatible with the Year 7 Schemes of Work for French, Spanish and German. The tests assess both receptive and productive language use for each strand of NCELP pedagogy (phonics, vocabulary and grammar) up to the end of Term 2.1. The assessments have been developed using Qualtrics, an…
Read MoreSpecialist teachers attended the third NCELP Residential in York on 27-28 February, developing their knowledge of KS2 Grammar, KS2 Transition, and the principles of assessment of phonics, vocabulary and grammar. In addition they shared resources created within their hubs, discussed Schemes of Work (SOW) developments and planned the programmes for their second hub conferences, due to…
Read MoreDavid Shanks presented ‘Vocabulary: What’s in a word?’ at the fifth of a series of 5 sessions for ALL (Association for Language Learning) at King Edward VII School, Sheffield today (Wednesday 26 February 2020). This final session focused on key MFL Pedagogy Review recommendations for teaching vocabulary, research-informed practice and explore the following questions: ·…
Read MoreEmma Marsden presented ‘Grammar’ at the fourth of a series of 5 sessions for ALL (Association for Language Learning) at King Edward VII School, Sheffield today (12 February 2020). This session focused on one of the core components of language competence and a driver of the NCELP Key Stage 3 Schemes of Work: grammar! The…
Read MoreRachel Hawkes presented ‘How does explicity phonics teaching make a difference?’ at the third of a series of 5 sessions for ALL (Association for Language Learning) at King Edward VII School, Sheffield today (Thursday 23 January 2020). The MFL Pedagogy Review recommendations include (amongst others) principles for teaching phonics, vocabulary, grammar and their combination in…
Read MoreNick Avery and Stephen Owen presented at the second of a series of 5 sessions for ALL (Association for Language Learning) at King Edward VII School, Sheffield today (Thursday 16 January 2020) Following the first session of the series on curriculum design (Rachel Hawkes), this session focused on NCELP’s development of schemes of work for…
Read MoreRachel Hawkes presented at the 30th Northern Primary Languages Show, organised by Steven Fawkes from the Association for Language Learning (ALL), and held at York St John University on Saturday 30 November 2019. Every languages teacher knows that vocabulary teaching and learning is vital. Learners can’t understand, say or write anything without knowing some words.…
Read MoreRachel Hawkes presented at the first of a series of 5 sessions for ALL (Association for Language Learning) at Kind Edward VII School, Sheffield, on Thursday 28 November 2019. The session entitled ‘Curriculum Design: Intent, Implementation and Impact in Languages at KS3 (and KS4)’ examined the key drivers of curriculum planning and the core components…
Read MoreRachel Hawkes, Co-Director of NCELP, presented to 600 teachers from 580 schools at the 27th PiXL Languages Conferences, held at Kia Oval, London on 27 November 2019. The presentation, entitled Inspirational Curriculum Design in languages…to ensure success, answers for languages the questions that drive the new Ofsted framework: What is the essential knowledge in your…
Read More