Adrian Price

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Adrian Price Senior Asst. Headteacher Christopher
Whitehead Language College Worcester SSAT Lead
Practitioner (Languages) asp_at_christopherwhitehea
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Welcome to .. Christopher Whitehead Language
College

• A specialist language college since Sept. 2004
• Outstanding KS2-KS4 CVA (top 5)
• 81 of students achieve a GCSE grade A-C
• Dec. 2005 Ofsted said. a good school with many
  outstanding elements.

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Christopher Whitehead Language College

• In 2005 Ofsted said the specialism was an area
  to develop.
• Sixteen students achieved a C grade or higher in
  the French oral exam.
• 30 of all students achieved a C grade or higher
  in a MFL.
• Key Stage 3 students studied French or German.
• All Key Stage 4 students followed the AQA GCSE in
  either French or German.

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the talking teacher is the enemy of
understanding
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Get Active! The Romans taught their children
that nothing was to be gained from sitting.
(Montaigne)
corners, speed dating, pass the parcel musical
chairs..
Walking and dancing here, there and everywhere!
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Mulling time and building with lego!
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Youtube
FLiP
Clipbank
DVDs
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RAG Marking motivates!
Whole class work
Group work
Independent work
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What do you do with the marks?
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Assessment that motivates! it was fun. Hes a
great teacher I did next to nothing..!

• 10 f3
• Key phrases
• Homework peer marking effort
• Past tense
• 4 verbs
• Pair answer
• Speed dating
• Target setting
• Independent work

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Connect to student interest

• 2 minutes to research adjectives.
• 1 minute to research nouns.
• 1 minutes to research past tense verbs.
• 1 minute to agree on best five!

• 2 minutes to produce two- three sentences using
  your best!

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Connect to prior learning Creativity is the
power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plomer
Lannée dernière jai allé en chine avec ma
famille. Je mai amusé bien parce que jai joué
au football sur la plage et jai marqué quatre
buts!
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Connect research
People
Houses
People Houses
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malodorant
plein de vie
People Houses
joli
chic
en bois
démodé
rurale
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Connect the bits you want them to remember
Key phrases
Words
cest jaime je naime pas jhabite je nhabite
pas Il y a Il ny a pas de nous avons dans le
centre parce que toujours je voudrais
un
une
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Jhabite à Worcester près de Birmingham dans le
centre de lAngleterre. A Worcester nous avons
un grand centre commercial et une jolie rivière
mais il ny a pas de piscine. Dans le futur je
voudrais habiter à Birmingham parce que jadore
Aston Villa.
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Connect the random
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Marking to motivate?
Who marks?
What do you mark?
Generating student criteria
So what is the impact? Are your marks read?
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Never mind the quality feel the effort!
Incremental learners
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Christopher Whitehead Language College
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• Students over achieve against FFTD target grades
  in MFL
• Three kinds of KS4 accreditation
• Accreditation in French, German, Spanish
  Italian
• 50 of school leavers have been on a visit
  abroad.
• Full International School Award
• French, German Spanish in KS3
• MFL led whole school intensive PLTS curriculum
  for Year 7
• Close effective links with six feeder primary
  schools and UCW
• Dual linguists
• A strong and effective LM model

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