We are delighted to be supporting this workshop for Primary French Coordinators, class teachers, teaching assistants and secondary teachers with a primary outreach role.
Join this free, in-person, all-day workshop on 30th June to explore how to support the Primary French project materials and teaching of French at Primary level in the city. The session will be led by the author of the materials and consultant to the project, Catherine Cheater.
This training has been funded by our partners at Institut Français and is supported by International Newcastle and Newcastle City Council, as part of Newcastle City of Languages and our mission to promote language learning and teaching in the City.
French in Key Stage 2 using the Primary Project materials
Free Workshop with Institut français and Catherine Cheater
9.00am-5.00pm, 30th June, Collingwood Suite, Newcastle Civic Centre
Click here for registration link
- Lunch included
- Venue to be confirmed
- Audience: Primary French Coordinators, class teachers, teaching assistants and secondary teachers with a primary outreach role
Focus of the training
Using the Primary French Project materials, this workshop will focus on:
- Preparation for September 2021 in your school
- Progression and levels of attainment
- How to manage planning and teaching
- How to provide information for secondary schools
This session will focus on materials dedicated to teaching French at primary level, including lesson plans and interactive PowerPoint Presentations for the smart-board, as well as images and voice recordings necessary to model language and grammatical concepts to children. The Primary French Project materials can be freely downloaded here.
Workshop leader: Catherine Cheater
Catherine Cheater is an author, consultant and teacher with an expertise in the field of languages in the primary school in the UK.
She has worked as a local authority consultant, and was also Senior Language Teaching Advisor (Primary) at CILT, The National Centre for Languages. She was one of the authors of the Key Stage 2 Framework for Languages (DfE, 2002), and has since published the Catherine Cheater Schemes of Work for French (KS2), as well as other resources for primary teachers.
She is a consultant to the Primary French Project and author of the training materials freely downloadable here.
About the Primary French Project
The Institut Français is the cultural and education branch of the French Embassy and promotes the teaching learning of French and French culture in the UK.
The Institut supports events and training in our city as part of Newcastle City of Languages.
The Primary French Project provides free teaching materials that aim to train all who teach French in Key Stage 2.
It is suitable for all practitioners, including those who have no prior knowledge of the language, and also specialist linguists who are new to teaching children in Key Stage 2.
The materials aim to train the teacher by providing the subject knowledge that is needed in order to meet the requirements of the Programme of Study for Languages in Key Stage 2, as well as age-appropriate language-teaching methodology.
About Newcastle City of Languages
Newcastle City of Languages is one of International Newcastle’s priority workstrands and seeks to promote, support and celebrate language learning and teaching in the city. We work with a wide range of local and regional language partners, as well as national partners, including British Council and the education departments and cultural institutes of Embassies based in the UK.
Events, activities and support for schools
We promote and support a range of training and other events for language teaching and learning, as well as providing a network for teachers and help with schools’ international links.
A list of current activities is listed on our website here.
We also advise teachers to sign up to the Newcastle Modern Foreign Languages Subject Network, which launched in January 2021. This has been set up for MFL teachers in Newcastle, bringing together teachers, sharing good practice and introducing expert speakers and new resources and training. Find out more and sign up details here.
We can support schools’ international partnerships and links through our network of partners here and abroad. We are keen to promote these and also access to funding and resources to support partnerships, whether they be language based or across the school and curriculum.
