International Relations

Our primary languages conference, which had been planned for 1 July, has been cancelled due to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. The event was to celebrate and disseminate learning which resulted from an ERASMUS+ funded project to support primary practitioners with MFL delivery in the classroom. Lesson plans created by the staff will be posted under…

Over the years, our team has commissioned and published a number of short videos. They are all to view and use from here We plan to upload children’s stories in French and Spanish soon as well as stories in English to share with our partner schools in France.

This week it is time to test your knowledge of German. You can see the challenge online here

Steven Fawkes from the Association of Language Learning has just posted this article for International Newcastle which makes interesting reading. Read article here

Last year, the world came together. We assembled greetings from all over the globe and artist Mick Stephenson put them together in a stunning illuminated sculpture for the Durham Lumiere festival. Colourful messages of friendship were encased in recycled plastic bottles and formed into a tree structure. Today, the whole world faces a terrible crisis….

Our colleagues at British Council have a great range of resources for schools. Try this Spanish challenge with pupils. Find the challenge here

We are using British Council resources to set challenges each week. This week’s is to manage to complete this using French You can download the challenge here  Next week it’s Spanish ….

french emoji poster Halsbury Travel has made its colourful posters free to download during the current lockdown restrictions. These and other free resources can be accessed through the Association of Language Learning’s pages here