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Saturday, 29 January 2022

Pupil Voice and GCSE Options

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 It is Options time, and in order to find out what Year 9 are thinking, I have sent them a simple Google Form to ask them what they think ab...
Friday, 28 January 2022

The Cousins fighting in the Car Park - Teaching the GCSE Reading Exam.

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 Once you realise how the AQA GCSE Reading Exam works, how do you go about teaching it? In a previous post , I explored the workings of the ...
Tuesday, 25 January 2022

Dance Moms and GCSE French

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 Instead of Tutor Time, Year 11 have been split into subject tutoring groups. So instead of my Year 11 form, for 3 days a week, I now have a...
Saturday, 22 January 2022

GCSE Listening and Reading Exams and "Topic" Vocabulary.

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NB This post is looking at the importance of high frequency vocab in the OLD GCSE.  My Year 10 Spanish class have just done a unit on School...
Monday, 17 January 2022

Calibrating Assessments

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 Pupils have now taken our new assessments in KS3 in at least one unit. In response to the Ofsted Research Review, we have concentrated on ...
Friday, 14 January 2022

Make the GCSE Work

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 The publishing of the outcome of the proposed new GCSE consultation has left me feeling like Keir Starmer, with his oxymoronic, "Make ...
Saturday, 8 January 2022

The Case Against... Topics

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 One of the several bombshells dropped without warning on the MFL teaching community by the new GCSE proposals, was the idea of "gettin...
Tuesday, 28 December 2021

If you give a mouse a cookie...

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  If you give a mouse a cookie  is a delightful children's book by Laura Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond. Some pupils know it a...
Wednesday, 22 December 2021

And what if we are wrong...?

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 Here is a slide from the inspirational Steven Fawkes from a recent Association for Language Learning event for early career teachers. These...
Saturday, 11 December 2021

Embracing Ambiguity in La Casa de Bernarda Alba

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 Two of the most popular set "texts" for AQA A Level Spanish are Almodóvar's Volver  and La Casa de Bernarda Alba  by García L...
Saturday, 4 December 2021

Why I don't call it "The Summary Question"

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 In the A Level Spanish Listening, Reading and Writing exam, there is a question called "The Summary Question". It comes up in the...
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Saturday, 27 November 2021

Why Randomise your French?

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 Joe Dale has contacted me to let me know he's made a Spinner Wheel out of one of my Keep Talking Sheets .  In the picture you can only...