Teaching Languages : primary class teacher extended course Day 4 Thursday 11 th February 2010

Classroom resources and Schemes of Work

QCA Scheme of Work Available in hard copy and online 24 Units of work with in-built progression Individual lessons within topical unit plans Follows the Framework objectives Commercial and free resources to support Very ‘content-heavy’ Lots of vocabulary Lots of resourcing may be needed

Catherine Cheater Scheme Available in hard copy Y3-Y6 Powerpoints and soundfiles to support teachers Skill-based rather than topics Written by co-author of KS2 Framework Practice parcels for follow-up sessions Too much content in each lesson plan* Additional resources expensive May not suit some mixed-age classes

Other Schemes of work Early Start French – KS1/Lower KS2 Tout Le Monde – online resource Babelzone – online resource ( follows QCA units) Petit Pont – CD Rom resource

Web resources (user login req’d) (subscription req’d) (subscription)

Investigating resources In pairs choose one SoW and at least one other resource to look at. Consider if/how you could use it and its merits (or otherwise!) Be prepared to feed back your thoughts to the group!