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Thursday, 29 October 2026

Pupil Survey: Feedback

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 As part of the Department Plan for this year, we are focusing on the impact of Feedback. We believe we have a well thought out policy desi...
Sunday, 25 October 2026

NPP 23: Pupils need to be able to imagine and believe in a version of themselves who speaks French

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  In my last two posts, I put forward a set of four principles for teaching languages. And I think they are a set, where each principle is c...
Thursday, 22 October 2026

NPP 22: Imagination, Interculturality and Identity

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  I have a feeling that this is something that I have only just started to think about. So these are very much first thoughts. We didn't...
Sunday, 18 October 2026

NPP 21: Using our Y7 French Exhibition as a Lens to Sharpen our Vision

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 The brief of this National Priorities Project was to use our Year 7 French Art Exhibition as a lens to sharpen our vision of key question...
Saturday, 3 October 2026

Unfair grading and the Department Plan

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 Unfair grading in Languages , where above a grade 4 pupils get on average a nearly a whole grade lower than in other subjects, is obviously...
Saturday, 26 September 2026

NPP 20: I think I have learned something. My thinking has changed.

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  This series of blogs is to document our learning as we work on our National Priorities Project . We are looking at what our Year 7 French ...
Thursday, 24 September 2026

Young people in Mental Distress. What could it possibly be?

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 Many years ago in Mexico City, a friend and I came across a stall selling magnetic health bracelets. My friend (a scientist) asked the stal...
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Sunday, 20 September 2026

NPP 19: Cognitive Load and Inclusion

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  In an earlier post in this series on our National Priorities Project , I looked at how thinking about our Year 7 French Art Exhibition hel...
Saturday, 19 September 2026

NPP 18: The French Art Exhibition itself

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 It has occured to me that after 17 posts on our National Priorities Project , I haven't really outlined our Year 7 French Art Exhibitio...
Sunday, 13 September 2026

NPP 17: Transactional Role Plays

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   Our National Priorities Project is using the lens of our Year 7 French Exhibition to examine the rest of our curriculum. And Transactiona...
Monday, 7 September 2026

NPP 16: Rewriting KS3 Booklets - examples from the Food Unit and House Unit

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 In the last post , I showed how I rewrote our French Art Exhibition Unit in the light of our reflections on self expression, accuracy, eng...