Rachel Hawkes presented ‘Strengthening the pillar of grammar (Grammar @KS2)’ at the Association for Language Learning (ALL) Primary Languages Conference 2020, on Saturday 17 October 2020. Rachel talked about how we help children build up their grammatical knowledge in a sequential and systematic way, which fits with their developing English literacy. She suggested ways of…
Read MoreToday we held a one-day research CPD event for NCELP Specialist Teachers (from our Lead Schools). The aims of the day were for teachers: To feel more confident about distinguishing ‘peer-reviewed’ research from other uses of the word ‘research’. To learn about some research into classroom practice, in order to begin to understand (a) the…
Read MoreWe’re hosting ‘An introduction to NCELP’ online conference on Friday 20 November, 09:30-15:30. You will be able to join language teachers from all over the country to learn about NCELP’s research-informed MFL teaching approaches and resources. Our new Key Stage 3 schemes of work are free, Ofsted-aligned and available for French, German and Spanish. They…
Read MoreEmma Marsden and Rachel Hawkes, NCELP Director and Co-Director respectively, presented at the Inside Government National Modern Foreign Languages Conference 2020 on 7 October 2020. Emma’s keynote gave a snapshot of NCELP’s activities including CPD & resources, she highlighted the alignment between NCELP & Ofsted’s Framework, talked about making grammar matter through reading & listening…
Read MoreWith some students in school, some students self-isolating at home, occasionally more significant local school lockdown or partial lockdown, it’s key that teachers have effective ways to set work for those students who are absent, whilst at the same time planning for and teaching those in front of them. Teachers who are already using the NCELP…
Read MoreLaurence Anthony (Waseda University) and members of the NCELP team – Natalie Finlayson, Emma Marsden, Rachel Hawkes and Nick Avery – presented the paper: ‘Extending vocabulary profiling to languages other than English’ at the Japan Association for English Corpus Studies (JAECS) 46th Annual Conference, 3-4 October 2020. From the abstract: “…In this presentation, we will…
Read MoreThe University of York has been awarded £1.45m of government funding to continue its work to support foreign language teaching in schools. The extension funding for the University’s National Centre for Excellence for Language Pedagogy (NCELP) will help the centre extend the reach of its work to promote pioneering teaching and encourage more pupils to…
Read MoreNCELP is pleased to share news relating to our Year 7 and 8 schemes of work. All of the documents below are now freely available on the NCELP Resource Portal. Please feel free to forward to your networks. Year 8 scheme of work ‘overview’ for French, German, Spanish. This two-page document summarises the key specifications…
Read MoreThe NCELP Hub Day Webinar was hosted on behalf of the Hubs on Friday 3 July 2020. The original events schedule outlined each NCELP Lead School hosting a physical event where the target audience were schools local to them who have been involved peripherally with NCELP in some way. We decided to move to a…
Read MoreNCELP teachers are videoing lessons using NCELP resources that will be used by thousands of pupils every day via the Oak National Academy online website. The Oak National Academy was launched as an online service to help teachers and families access educational materials during the school closures. The Government have committed funds for this online…
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