Don't ever be afraid to make mistakes when you're learning a new language. I'd much rather my students stretched themselves, tried out new things & got some things wrong than stuck to a script & never really 'felt' the language. Mistakes are a vital part of language learning.
Today I asked my Y10 class to anonymously write on a Post-it what activities/topics they wanted to do more of in their Spanish lessons. These two responses had me howling 😂😂 @spanish_vst@BrigshawMfl
A bit of perspective on ‘catch up’.
In Iceland, knitting is part of the curriculum.
In Chile, children have 3 months break.
In Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Serbia, Sweden - children start school at 7.
Do we put too much pressure on our children?🤔
Brexit makes languages more essential to the UK, not less. Spanish opens up much of Latin America. French is a way in to North Africa & German is still the language of the UK’s 2nd biggest export market. If anything, languages are even more important now, whatever you want to do.
We ended the working day on a high today 🙌🏽 Great to see all my @BrigshawMfl colleagues online to discuss all things remote learning and share plenty of tips & tricks to get the very best out of our linguists 🇪🇸🇫🇷🇩🇪@spanish_vst @KibbleHayley @jandrewsmfl@MillieWitty1
just discovered https://t.co/08az5F0D5X - a great way for students to listen to local radio stations around the world whilst taking a tour of a new city 🚗📻 me encanta!
Big thanks to @suzibewell for yesterday afternoon's @ltupgcemfl session on the transition from GCSE to A-level. Some interesting (and shocking 😬) stats that have made me even more motivated to pass my enthusiasm for Spanish on to my future students 🇪🇸😃
Fabulous presentation by @CaoimheMFL this morning about teaching students to be better listeners - so many good ideas that I can't wait to try with students at @BrigshawNews! Muchas gracias @CaoimheMFL