Primary Modern Foreign Languages Subject Leader Session
January 2023
Teaching a foreign language forms part of the statutory Key Stage Two National Curriculum and primary schools are continuing to work hard to offer a broad, balanced and sequenced curriculum.
Our supportive termly Subject Leader Training Sessions enable participants to keep up-to-date with latest developments in the Primary Languages arena. They offer a range of discussion opportunities, practical activities and resources focused on the continued development of primary foreign language teaching.
Target Audience:
These sessions are aimed at staff with a role in the development of languages at primary level, eg Subject Leaders, Curriculum Leaders and Senior Leadership Team members.
Content:
Subject Leader Sessions:
- provide local and national updates about primary languages
- enable leaders to reflect upon developments
- enable leaders to develop their strategic role within the current climate
- provide opportunities to make or renew network contacts
- provide opportunities to share expertise, good practice and toolkits for subject leaders
- offer practical ideas, activities and resources to use in the classroom
Trainers:
Dawn will be working alongside Odette Hunt to deliver this course.
Odette is an experienced and well-respected Primary Languages Consultant. She works closely with schools, providing bespoke CPD and in-class support, training courses, workshops, conference presentations and runs her local primary languages support network. Drawing on her previous experiences as a Primary school teacher, Odette is convinced of the need for language learning to be grounded in Primary methodology and linked to other areas of pupils’ learning. She is the founding director of and Course Leader at PQ France Ltd, which offers grant-funded language and methodology courses in Carcassonne, France.
Dates and Venues:
Location: Bury Business Lodge, Europa House, Barcroft St, Bury, BL9 5BT
Date: Tuesday 17th January 2023
Registration: 1pm Session: 1.15 – 3.30pm
Light refreshments on arrival
Location: The Alma Lodge Hotel, 149 Buxton Road, Stockport. SK2 6EL
Date: Wednesday 18th January 2023
Registration 1pm Session 1:15 – 3:30pm
Light refreshments on arrival
Remote Session: NA
Date: NA
Time: NA
Cost and Booking:
- £75 per person for Stockport or Bury venue
- If your school is in either the Odette Hunt or the Dawn Wilde Primary Language Networks, these charges will be reduced by 20%
