We know that all teachers are working very hard to manage the impact on their pupils and schools in these difficult times. We have made some updates to the Resource Portal to reflect the change in practice arising from school closure. Two new pages are available from the home page of both our main NCELP…
Read MoreNCELP Schemes of Work are proposed as examples of how language knowledge and practice can be sequenced and re-visited systematically to support progression in the early stages of language development within a low exposure foreign language setting. This latest version takes on board feedback from NCELP network schools and includes Y7 Terms 1 and 2.…
Read MoreRachel 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 MoreNCELP have produced audio screencasts on Phonics, Vocabulary, Grammar, NCELP scheme of work development and the new Ofsted Framework and NCELP. These CPD training materials will benefit anyone outside of the network project or hub teachers that could not attend the sessions. You can access the audio screencasts via the following collection on the NCELP…
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…
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