Snow, Chocolate Cake and Model Aeroplanes

http://languagesatnorthgate.wordpress.comKate Shepheard-Walwyn

Vincent EverettNorthgate High School, Dereham, Norfolk

Tangible Outcomes

A perceived problem with languages is the lack of tangible outcomes for pupils. At Northgate we hope to change this perception. External clients commission a project requiring the use of the foreign language.

The client-commissioned Launch Create Celebrate model is taken from an approach used in Design Technology departments. Applying it to languages makes sense because it too is a subject where application of skills is more important than knowledge of facts.

A working model:

•Client• Launch•Create•Deliver•Celebrate

Progression in Creativity

• Perform something you have learned.• Use learned language in a real context.• Draw on language from a previous context and

apply it to a new one.• Have a conscious core repertoire which you

can deploy to express yourself.• Use language to entertain and enchant.

• Francovision Song Contest

• Idea from Rachel Hawkes (Spanglovision)

Progression in Creativity

• Perform something you have learned.• Use learned language in a real context.• Draw on language from a previous context and

apply it to a new one.• Have a conscious core repertoire which you

can deploy to express yourself.• Use language to entertain and enchant.

The Staff French Café

• Part of SoW, but volunteers• Practical skills to the fore• Buzz

Progression in Creativity

• Perform something you have learned.• Use learned language in a real context.• Draw on language from a previous

context and apply it to a new one.• Have a conscious core repertoire which you

can deploy to express yourself.• Use language to entertain and enchant.

Farm Stamper Trail

• Launched by Visitors in Assembly• Done in class• Display at Farm - voting• Primary school – trial• Prizes and adoption• Creativity

Progression in Creativity

• Perform something you have learned.• Use learned language in a real context.• Draw on language from a previous context and

apply it to a new one.• Have a conscious core repertoire which

you can deploy to express yourself.• Use language to entertain and enchant.

Flat Stanley

Greenscreen Filming

Progression in Creativity

• Perform something you have learned.• Use learned language in a real context.• Draw on language from a previous context and

apply it to a new one.• Have a conscious core repertoire which you

can deploy to express yourself.• Use language to entertain and enchant.

• Castle Story Telling

• Child’s Book

• BBC Jingles

Drivers of Pupil Engagement

• Task is big and authentic• Task has clear and worthwhile outcomes• Completion depends on teamwork• Task takes some time to complete• Task involves some time out of school• Successful task is evaluated and celebrated by

an appropriate audience

Model Aeroplanes

• Kit – enough grammar at once to actually fly• Can be used straight away• Takes a while to play with it, learn to fly it• Can be customised, added toY8 Fridge SheetKeep Talking sheet

Working Kit

• Being Ben• Speed Date• Scribble Talk• Connectives Dice1. y 2. porque 3. sobre todo si4. por ejemplo 5.entonces 6.pero• Connectives Trigger

Working Kit

• Ski Slope• Tree

Add to your kit

• Speech• Imperfect• Other persons• I should have• My mum doesn’t want mePimp My French• Megamutantpenguinskideath

Messages

• It’s not the French that’s hard, it’s thinking up what to say

• You don’t need to learn more French, you just need to get better at using it

• You don’t need to improve your level, you need to use the sheet less and less

Messages

Snow PosterCake PosterBread and Butter / Jam

Road Map

Y7 Road MapY8 Road MapY9 Road Map

MFL = a Technology Subject

• Language and Technology are what make us human

• Tools, Skills, Ingredients• Make something• Make something tangible

Snow, Chocolate Cake and Model Aeroplanes

http://languagesatnorthgate.wordpress.comKate Shepheard-Walwyn

Vincent EverettNorthgate High School, Dereham, Norfolk