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Next steps for Languages at Holy Trinity
Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Through this project we plan to establish language learning in our school. The person in our school who will take responsibility for leading this change will be our MFL coordinator. We would like this member of staff to have training in the Spanish language, opportunities for cultural immersion, training in effective techniques and strategies for teaching languages throughout the primary phase, and to have an excellent level of confidence with all aspects of primary language teaching. We would also like our MFL coordinator to be able to experience firsthand life in a Spanish school and see what the possibilities could be for the future of languages within our school. We would like to establish cross curricular working, find new ideas and strategies for ways to reinforce literacy through language learning and increase the opportunities available to our youngest children. Through the training we provide for our MFL coordinator, we would like to develop the role of our school within our local community. We intend to provide a well-structured series of professional development opportunities for all our staff and provide language learning and intercultural opportunities for our wider community. We hope to include parents, governors, volunteers and other members of our local community. We also want to offer training to other schools within our network and develop new strategies to improve transition from Key stage II key stage III ensuring that our children’s learning is built upon. We will build a strong and lasting international link with a Spanish school, develop our understanding of how ICT can be used to enhance language learning and increase the amount of intercultural activities and events we hold in our school involving parents and the local community. We intend to achieve all of these aims through a project in our school that will involve the intensive training of our MFL coordinator over a series of three courses in Spain. These courses will be progressive, and each will build on the previous ones. The completion of these activities will mean that our MFL coordinator is in an excellent position to be able to strongly lead the development of the subject in our school and will provide a programme of CPD for the rest of the staff in our school. There will also be training opportunities provided for parents, governors, volunteers and the local community based upon the knowledge and skills gained on these courses.
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