Modern Language Musings

DIRT (Dedicated Improvement and Reflection Time) has become a huge feature in my lessons over the past year. I'm sure many of you ha...

Vocabulary building can be one of the most arduous tasks for pupils. Pupils can feel bombarded at the start of a topic when they are le...

Languages aren't an easy subject to study and sometimes it can be difficult to make them accessible for a whole range of different ...

How often do we just give pupils another text to work through, answer questions on and then find the French/Spanish/German? After doing...

Objectives are something that are instilled into the UK classroom with the firm belief that if pupils know what they are aiming for, it...

Getting your own classroom and being able to decorate it was one of the things I was most excited about when I landed my job. The thing...

With Easter assessments looming, I have been providing a lot of model texts for my pupils to work with. While these act as an aspiration...

On my second placement one French classroom was covered in useful vocabulary. I sat there taking note of every piece of coloured paper ...