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Posted on December 09 2021
Practitioners across the South East Improvement Collaborative (SEIC) were invited to attend the online launch of Toolkit for Improvement in Languages ...
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Posted on December 09 2021
A nursery from the German city of Würzburg has produced a book of children’s stories and illustrations to celebrate the nursery’s 50th ann...
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Posted on June 03 2021
This year, the West Lothian 1+2 team has trialled many different approaches to supporting the implementation of the 1+2 Approach, and we decided to su...
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Posted on June 03 2021
A series of online learning modules for teachers has recently been developed. They bring together a variety of pre-existing and newly created audio an...
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Posted on June 03 2021
Lockdown brought negative challenges to language learning, but reaction to this has brought about a new series of positive challenges for Gaelic Learn...
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Posted on June 03 2021
After moving our professional learning online from March 2020, we were concerned about the impact on course numbers and participation in classes as la...
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Posted on June 03 2021
At Stornoway Primary, we celebrate the diversity of pupils in our school. We learn from each other to gain an awareness of our cultural differences, a...
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Posted on December 09 2020
West Lothian teachers and learners have been embracing the new online culture, and course bookings for CLPL opportunities in all curricular areas have...
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Posted on December 09 2020
“So what’s been happening with you?”
“Not much, how about you?”
“Same!”
How many people are often h...
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Posted on December 09 2020
West Lothian and Falkirk 1+2 teams have been running a “Leadership of languages” course in conjunction with our partners Education Scotlan...
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Posted on December 09 2020
Aberdeen City Council has adapted to the new way of working and we are now communicating with colleagues online.
Our CLPL programme is delivered vi...
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Posted on June 09 2020
Prior to school closure, our very active 1+2 Leads across Clackmannanshire hosted an event with Louise Glen from Education Scotland. This focused on p...
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Posted on June 09 2020
Craigroyston Community High in Edinburgh was incredibly proud that four girls from our Higher French class won first place in the senior phase (S4/S6)...
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Posted on June 09 2020
In 2020, we need to remotely re-create the classroom experience and navigate the challenging digital shift in the delivery of lessons. Opportunities f...
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Posted on June 09 2020
Being thrown into online learning has raised challenges for many teachers. However, our 1+2 Team has been trying to keep the profile of languages high...
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Posted on June 09 2020
In March, Tighnabruaich Primary hosted an intergenerational Gaelic learning afternoon in partnership with the Gaelic Department at Dunoon Grammar, Cow...
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Posted on June 09 2020
When we met at Boroughmuir High in Edinburgh at the end of last year, together with the German Consulate General and ministers from Scotland and Rhine...
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Posted on December 09 2019
On Friday 4 October 2019, Linlithgow Academy prepared and hosted the first 1+2 P7/S1 transition event in the Linlithgow cluster. After months of plann...
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Posted on December 06 2019
Wendy Craig and Aimee Bainbridge work at Newtonhill Primary in Aberdeenshire. They share their experiences of taking part in the SCILT/Open University...
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Posted on December 06 2019
Following the success of the Higher French support offered to pupils in North Lanarkshire during session 2018-19, we continue to work with the Allianc...
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Posted on December 06 2019
Languages at Braehead Primary in Stirling are an integral and important part of the school’s identity and this year the school has linked up wit...
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Posted on December 06 2019
Having returned home and overcome jetlag, we can now reflect on what can only be described as a once in a lifetime experience. The Sasakawa Foundation...
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Posted on December 06 2019
Clackmannanshire may be a small authority but our outlook is very much focused on opening doors into other cultures for our pupils – the world i...
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Posted on December 06 2019
During the autumn term, University of Aberdeen language student visits to secondary schools are underway.
The mainly third year students give a pre...
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Posted on December 06 2019
Around 100 primary and secondary teachers attended a ‘Making languages relevant’ event in Meldrum Academy at the beginning of November 201...
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Posted on December 06 2019
The North Ayrshire 1+2 and Family Learning teams partnered with early years staff to deliver a six-week French project called ‘1, 2, 3 Oui&rsquo...
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Posted on August 12 2019
On 21 May 2019, North Lanarkshire Council held their annual 1+2 Languages award ceremony. In the morning, primary schools were invited to attend to ce...
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Posted on August 12 2019
German Educational Trainees’ fairy tale competition
Annabel Christ and Felix Pollotzek, two German Educational Trainees placed in Aberdeen Ci...
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Posted on August 12 2019
Lawthorn Primary recently welcomed parents to join their children in language learning at their ‘Family French morning’. Parents and child...
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Posted on May 14 2019
It’s been a busy few months in Aberdeenshire promoting 1+2 and languages.
Modern Language Assistants and GETS 2018/19
We are so lucky to h...
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Posted on May 14 2019
With the advent of 2020 looming large and the real possibility of funding for 1+2 coming to an end, staff in Shetland have been looking for ways to en...
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Posted on May 14 2019
This year, a focus of the 1+2 team has been to support upper primary classes with reading and writing in French/Spanish. We are working alongside teac...
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Posted on May 14 2019
In North Lanarkshire, we have been supporting the implementation of 1+2 by delivering enhanced digital training sessions to share our new planners fro...
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Posted on May 14 2019
Twenty two primary school teachers and four Quality Inspectors from across Nice visited schools in Inverclyde in November for a few days’ work-s...
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Posted on June 15 2018
Lead Linguists from Whitburn Academy planned and devised a project for all P7s within West Lothian’s Whitburn cluster. Each school was given a d...
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Posted on June 15 2018
On 2 May 2018, South Ayrshire’s outdoor education centre, Dolphin House, was buzzing with the sound of primary pupils speaking French. Dolphin H...
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Posted on June 15 2018
In North Ayrshire ASN schools, the aim is to teach Makaton to pupils and their surrounding community in order to open up pupils’ world of commun...
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Posted on June 15 2018
The Northern Alliance Learning Festival (formerly Aberdeen Learning Festival) took place in February 2018 in Aberdeen. We welcomed Janette Kelso and M...
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Posted on June 15 2018
Across North Ayrshire, teachers have been confidently embedding the language content from Years 1-3 of the North Ayrshire Language Learning Framework....
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Posted on June 15 2018
Aberdeen City Libraries hosted a family Global Storytime at the Central Children’s Library in March 2018 as part of the annual ‘Arts acros...
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Posted on June 15 2018
February 2018 saw Aberdeen City Council schools welcome 12 student teachers from the University of Grenoble-Alpes. This is the third year that we have...
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Posted on June 15 2018
It is with great sadness that Aberdeenshire schools say goodbye to two Spanish and six French MLAs and three German Educational Trainees (GETs). These...
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Posted on December 05 2017
Members of the DANSE (Dumfries & Galloway, Argyll & Bute, North, South and East Ayrshire) Languages Group were first been introduced to each o...
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Posted on December 05 2017
Recommendation 31 of ‘Language learning in Scotland: A 1+2 approach’ suggests that schools and local authorities consider engaging with sk...
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Posted on December 05 2017
In North Ayrshire, the 1+2 team have embarked on a new initiative to raise the profile of languages and engage families with their children in learnin...
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Posted on December 05 2017
We extended a warm welcome to North Ayrshire to our lovely friends from Lyon and Saint Étienne. Last year, we established links between all sch...
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Posted on December 05 2017
For the second year in a row, Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) has invited the 1+2 PanTayside team to take part in the Discovery Film Festival. During t...
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Posted on June 13 2017
Recently, Maria McKinley delivered a workshop about Camembear, a progressive resource which uses a bear character as a ‘hook’ to appeal to young learn...
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Posted on June 13 2017
North Ayrshire’s Erasmus+ Mobility programme
It is with great excitement that we embark on a partnership with the British Council and offer a fabulou...
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Posted on June 13 2017
For the second year in a row, Midlothian Council has employed six French Modern Language Assistants (MLAs) who have worked across Midlothian schools i...
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Posted on June 13 2017
In April 2017, over 1000 families from a diverse catchment area embarked on an exciting learning journey in Fife: learning French online. This project...
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Posted on June 13 2017
Learning Chinese has been a great success this year in the Carnoustie cluster, Angus. Within this cluster, Burnside Primary will launch as a Primary C...
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Posted on June 13 2017
Sixty teachers from Aberdeenshire were successful in their Erasmus+ applications and shall be attending LFEE Immersion Courses in Lyon, Salinac and Ma...
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Posted on June 13 2017
Gaelic medium education has been taught in Gilcomstoun School in Aberdeen for 25 years and the whole school recently engaged in a four week long proje...
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Posted on June 13 2017
Cornhill School: A Tour de France IDL project
Cornhill School launched an IDL project over the month of May to engage the whole school and community ...
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Posted on June 13 2017
Over 200 pupils and staff attended the first North Lanarkshire 1+2 Language Awards ceremony at Excelsior Stadium in Airdrie on Tuesday 23 May 2017. Aw...
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Posted on March 17 2017
Inverbrothock Primary in Arbroath, Angus, has been working hard to extend its open door policy to parents and carers.
Last year, we started sharing o...
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Posted on March 17 2017
This year has seen an acceleration of teachers and pupils embracing languages as their confidence begins to gather pace. Staff are keen to learn more ...
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Posted on March 17 2017
1+2 has been very much at the forefront of CLPL for staff this session and we are getting to the end of another very successful set of Primary Languag...
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Posted on March 17 2017
Languages are alive and kicking in East Renfrewshire! This session we launched an Innovation Fund to allow schools to bid for money to support the lea...
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Posted on March 17 2017
In order to upskill primary teachers in teaching French, East Dunbartonshire is using LFEE Europe CLPL resources and support. This has involved three ...
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Posted on March 17 2017
Training is ongoing for Aberdeen City Council primary teachers. We offer twilight language and methodology classes and this term we have added a new o...
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Posted on March 17 2017
In February 2017, East Ayrshire produced a document to raise awareness of the work being done to implement the 1+2 Approach across the local authority...
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Posted on March 17 2017
South Lanarkshire primary teachers continue to show tremendous commitment to the development of the 1+2 Approach with more than 200 additional teacher...
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Posted on December 05 2016
PanTayside 1+2 team has worked in partnership with Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) to link Moving Image Education and languages. PanTayside 1+2 team cr...
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Posted on December 05 2016
Last year we boosted teacher confidence by training staff to embed French or Spanish into their daily school routines. Training continues this year an...
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Posted on December 05 2016
Much of our Primary Language Learning (PLL) training material is at present housed on the Dumfries & Galloway Glow site but in order to widen acce...
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Posted on December 05 2016
Aberdeenshire council send regular email newsletters to support teaching colleagues in the implementation of the 1+2 approach. The June 2016 edition i...
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Posted on December 05 2016
The 1+2 Modern Languages team at Aberdeen City Council are using Abernet, the education homepage, as a means of communication with schools. They have ...
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Posted on June 07 2016
This session has seen Falkirk Council extend its CLPL training programme at both cluster and authority level, offering a variety of CLPL opportunities...
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Posted on June 07 2016
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North Ayrshire 1+2 development officers send regular email newsletters to colleagues to support them in the implementation of the 1+2 Approach. The la...
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Posted on June 07 2016
In Dundee City, we are in the process of revising our local training events to cater for our teachers’ needs and to give them the best tools possible ...
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Posted on June 07 2016
Argyll and Bute Council has recently developed Primary Language Learning classroom resource packs. These packs have been designed to promote active le...
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Posted on June 07 2016
On 1 March 2016, language leaders, lead teachers and class teachers gathered in Inverary for a day of engagement with the 1+2 Approach. The event was ...
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Posted on June 07 2016
During the spring term, a group of primary school teachers have been attending language classes to train in L2 French and Chinese. The classes are del...
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Posted on March 15 2016
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North Ayrshire 1+2 development officers send regular email newsletters to colleagues to support them in the implementation of the 1+2 approach. The la...
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Posted on March 15 2016
After a big push on primary language learning over the session, we've just finished training two full cohorts of primary French and primary Spanish te...
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Posted on March 15 2016
As we march towards spring, here’s what’s been going on in East Renfrewshire (while we dodged the rain!)
L2 in all 22 East Renfrewshire primary schoo...
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Posted on March 15 2016
Training and implementation of policy
East Dunbartonshire Council’s implementation model has evolved through the delivery of an extensive training pr...
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Posted on March 15 2016
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East Ayrshire languages development officers send regular email newsletters to teaching colleagues to support them in the implementation of the 1+2 ap...
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Posted on March 15 2016
In Edinburgh there continues to be lots of exciting progress with the 1+2 approach to language learning. We have been able to offer a variety of langu...
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Posted on March 15 2016
Class teacher, Lynda Suthe is a beginner learner of Chinese and recounts her experiences introducing the language to P5.
Where we began
All stages b...
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Posted on March 15 2016
We have seen momentum gaining in the strategic planning for and implementation of ‘Language learning in Scotland: A 1+2 approach’ in Aberdeenshire ove...
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Posted on November 24 2015
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North Ayrshire 1+2 development officers send regular email newsletters to primary colleagues to support them in the implementation of the 1+2 approach...
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Posted on November 24 2015
The Pan Tayside approach involves three authorities: Dundee City Council, Angus Council and Perth and Kinross Council, working together to implement l...
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Posted on November 24 2015
In an innovative take on CLPL, a group of City of Edinburgh teachers have this year embarked on a Higher Spanish course. The Higher Spanish class is m...
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Posted on November 24 2015
The City of Edinburgh 1+2 team has been working in partnership with Edinburgh University Student Association (EUSA) to help support language learning ...
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Posted on November 24 2015
In March, 45 primary school teachers from across Edinburgh took part in City of Edinburgh’s first ever French immersion weekend hosted at the Institut...
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Posted on November 24 2015
Aberdeen City Council Education and Children Services Directorate opted for a strategic approach to implementing the 1+2 approach. The choice of L2 wa...
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