1. © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education These materials have been designed to be reproduced for internal circulation, research and teaching or training purposes. They can be reproduced for free provided that this material is acknowledged as Crown copyright, reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context. Adaptation of these materials for other languages is permissible, providing the original source is acknowledged. Intercultural Understanding Explored LinkedUp Project: The Froggies et les Rosbifs

2. © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. Intercultural Understanding Explored Photographs used in this presentation have been taken by the project leader, Helen Dixon – Director for Modern Foreign Languages, The Ridgeway School & Sixth Form College.

3. © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. The new Framework ICU – a new aspect of the KS3 MFL curriculum and in line with the KS2 framework for languages Opportunity for cross curricular work Opportunity to embrace transition

4. © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. So how? Choose carefully – interest and potential French and Drama Year 9 GAT students After school club Poitiers partnership – CES Jardin des Plantes CILT interest

5. © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. What to do? What would help us understand? Folk stories? Fables? 2 meetings – Swindon and Poitiers The project was born!

6. © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. Aesop and Jean de la Fontaine Commonality across the channel Approachable material The Hare and the Tortoise The Lion and the Mouse The Ant and the Grasshopper The Two Cockerels

7. © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. The fifth fable... ‘The Froggies et les Rosbifs’

8. © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. The project... Involves a diverse cross-curricular group of teachers in both schools. Is wide reaching to include the primary sector and the wider community. enhances intercultural understanding and adds a further dimension to language learning.

9. © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. The project... involves cultural, linguistic and artistic exchanges via the creation of blogs, e-mails, letters and mail art. theatrical presentations of 4 fables along with the writing of a communal fable underpins this joint curriculum project.

10. © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. The project... pupils work collaboratively on a new 'fable' to explore the stereotypes of the English and the French and to celebrate differences. begun and rehearsed in Swindon in March and rehearsed and performed in Poitiers in June.

11. © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. The project... The combined fable 'The Froggies et les Rosbifs' will be in both languages and will reflect personal experiences of the pupils during the project. It will be a symbolic representation of the underpinning theme of the project.

12. © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. The objectives... 1. The delivery of curriculum in the French partner school. For the Ridgeway School, the project links nicely with the Intercultural Understanding strand of the new Key Stage 3 framework. 2. To develop positive attitudes, social awareness and an understanding of communication.

13. © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. The objectives... 3. The creation of an empowering experience in which students celebrate difference and explore stereotypes. 4. Stimulation of a genuine exploration of different beliefs both within the project itself and in subsequent follow-up activities. 5. Creation of a meaningful context for purposeful and authentic language.

14. © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. Oh so English... Fried breakfast Roast beef Jelly tea Cucumber sandwiches Bowler hat Umbrella

15. © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. Oh so French... Snails Frogs legs Stripy t-shirts Berets Baguettes Garlic

16. © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. Community opportunities Transition: Primary visit – interaction with French and English students Parents: performances Wider school: awards evenings and assemblies Nationally: CILT conference September 2010

17. © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. Cross curricular... Drama French Art Music English SEAL PLTs

18. © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. Intercultural Understanding? Most definitely! It evolved into an exchange! The future: to take it Swindon wide – as part of the literature festival, to repeat next year with a new title ‘The Art of Communication’