We know that foreign travel seems a distant prospect for many schools at the moment. However, the Government will soon announce that it is opening applications for grants for pupil travel across the globe as part of its Turing scheme. The application window is to be very small but will deal with applications for the…
Express Yourself – North East Festival of Languages
A fabulous celebration of languages in our region. A mix of live events, pre-recorded content, films, workshops, competitions and online resources to promote language learning in your classroom and school. Full programme is available at http://www.expressyourselfne.com
Christmas decoration project
Over 6000 pupils from 250 schools in 19 countries took part in a remarkable project to share warm wishes and a special decoration for their partner schools’ Christmas trees. Schools exchanged decorations with up to 25 other schools across Europe and also reported on how the pandemic was affecting them in their schools in the…
Warum? Why German?
More people live in Germany than any other European country, it has the continent’s largest economy and German is the most widely spoken first language in the whole of Europe. On Monday January 25th, a special webinar was arranged to discover more about Germany, its links with a region of the UK and how businesses…
Marking the start of the new lunar year
We are working to deliver an online programme to mark the start of the Year of the Ox. This will be supported by a new British Council education pack https://www.britishcouncil.org/school-resources/find/classroom/year-of-the-ox We are planning online question and answer sessions with Chinese students, craft sessions, Chinese language taster sessions and specially made films. To register your school’s…
Christmas decoration project in focus
291 schools from across Europe came together this year to make and share Christmas tree decorations. Together with the decorations, they shared news about their own country’s preparations for the Christmas period in times past and in this year of the global pandemic. There was such interest in the project that TV company ARTE asked…
Coronavirus explained in Spanish
This short film in Spanish introduces learners to vocabulary they will need to discuss the current pandemic.
Diwali – a very local celebration
You can view our special film about Diwali here. Many thanks to Andrew Lambert at Newsmakerpr, to Veena Soni, to the Newcastle Hindu Temple and the families and friends who contributed to the making of this film.
International Education Week
What are you doing in school to mark International Education Week? The international office has produced and had commissioned a series of videos to mark Diwali. Video 1 introduces pupils to the Hindu temple in Newcastle and lets pupils hear from local families and students about Diwali. This is followed by an online question and…
Linguacast – resources for language learning
https://internationalnewcastle.org.uk/french-teaching-and-language-resources-meet-the-angry-family-conversations-verbs-pronouns Meet the Angry Family and conversations This is a series of animated Powerpoint presentations with spoken French and text (with English translation) with the Angry Family characters. These resources were produced as part of the Linguacast project at Newcastle University’s Language Resource Centre. They are being provided free of charge for use in French teaching…
