Teaching Languages : primary class teacher

extended courseDay 4

Thursday 11th February 2010

Classroom resourcesand Schemes of Work

QCA Scheme of Work• Available in hard copy and online• 24 Units of work with in-built progression• Individual lessons within topical unit plans• Follows the Framework objectives• Commercial and free resources to support

• Very ‘content-heavy’• Lots of vocabulary• Lots of resourcing may be needed

Catherine Cheater Scheme• Available in hard copy Y3-Y6• Powerpoints and soundfiles to support

teachers• Skill-based rather than topics• Written by co-author of KS2 Framework• Practice parcels for follow-up sessions

• Too much content in each lesson plan*• Additional resources expensive• May not suit some mixed-age classes

Other Schemes of work

• Early Start French – KS1/Lower KS2

• Tout Le Monde – online resource

• Babelzone – online resource (follows QCA units)

• Petit Pont – CD Rom resource

Web resources• http://hampshirelanguages.wikispaces.com

• http://www.hantswizkid.net (user login req’d)

• http://www.linguascope.com (subscription req’d)

• http://www.atantot.co.uk (subscription)

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryfrench

Investigating resources• In pairs choose one SoW and at least one

other resource to look at.

• Consider if/how you could use it and its merits (or otherwise!)

• Be prepared to feed back yourthoughts to the group!