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. Project Evaluation LinkedUp Project: Aiming Higher in Languages

2. © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. Feedback from year 11 / year 12 surveys

3. © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. Y11 – Which three activities have you found most difficult?

4. © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. Y11 – Have you chosen to study languages at A level?

5. © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. Y12 - Favourite activities

6. © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. Y12 – Have you enjoyed your AS course?

7. © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. Y12 – What could have been done to help you make better progress at A level? Much more grammar! It’s a big jump up. GCSE should be harder! A French visit Practice A level papers / questions – more difficult Learn more about tenses More grammar work More grammar and verb conjugations More grammar Not taking the exam in Y10 then having a year out

8. © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. Transition Day © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme.

9. Feedback from teachers The overall experience has been very positive and illuminating - I feel I personally have a better of idea of what is required at A level, and more importantly, I feel that we have been able to remove the fear of the big step-up to A level for the more able linguists across the town. Indeed, more than this, I feel we have done a good job of promoting A level languages, and awakening the possibility of studying languages at A level in the minds of students who had not previously been considering it. The transition day has challenged me to seek out truly creative activities for my AS learners, and not to under-estimate what they are capable of. The biggest challenge on the day itself was to hold back and let the students get on with the work by themselves! But they certainly proved that they could rise to the occasion and, I think, relished the freedom.

10. © Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. Feedback from pupils I hadn't previously considered taking languages as I thought it would be the same as GCSE. GCSE German isn't the most exciting and didn't feel I’d enjoy it in A level. After the event I’m considering taking German at A level as I found out that it’s totally different to GCSE and how I thought it was going to be. The event helped me develop skills in German by thinking about how to construct a sentence without asking somebody or translating it.