welcome to the second mfl@isp coffee morning thursday 26 th june 2014

Welcome to the second MFL@ISP Coffee Morning

Thursday 26th June 2014

• To update you on the progress in MFL this year

• To inform you of future plans and developments

The aims of this session are:

MFL Primary PTCs

• Held over 3 days at the end of Term 2

• Teachers noted feedback and answered a wide range of questions

• Feedback has been welcomed - one popular suggestion was ‘look, cover, spell’ to test vocabulary - this will be used in conjunction with the Haiku vocabulary

• Will happen again next year

Malay Literacy Programme

• For all Year 4 to Year 6 students

• Teachers can suggest books

• A range of appropriate books for all levels

New Resources and Investment in Languages

• Language Nut - worldwide language competition ‘Lingualympics’

• Levelled activities sorted by topic - including grammar exercises – accessible on iPad and at home for parents to add support

• All languages taught at ISP plus others will be accessible to all students with extra access to EAL resources for students on the EAL programme

Language CCAs• French• German• Mandarin First Language• Mandarin Foreign Language

Looking Ahead

2014-2015

MFL Staffing for 2014/15

Mr Nick – French/Business Studies/EAL Mr Pablo* - Spanish Year 5 - Year 11Mr Nizam - Malay Years 2, 3, 4, 7-11Miss Aida - Malay Nursery – Year 6, Year 9Miss Lana - Malay Year 1 - Year 8 Miss Lee Ying - Mandarin Years 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9-11Miss Stephanie - Mandarin Years 1, 2, 4, 5, 8-11Miss Li Xuan* - Mandarin Nursery – Year 6

A new Mandarin teacher has been appointed – further details will be made available on the website in due course*new staff

Setting

• We have created a timetable specifically to enable us to have MFL lessons taught at the same time for students in the same year group.

• Setting will be used from Year 1 - Year 11 where class sizes allow.

• Mandarin will be taught as a First Language to students who are able to follow the more demanding course and will be set at 2-3 different levels according to the number of students

• Malay will be set according to ability

Teaching Time

• Hours and allocations will remain the same

• For those Year 5 and 6 students who choose Mandarin or Spanish, they will study that subject throughout the school year

2014-15• Grouping and language choices will be finalised by

Monday 8th September 2014• Overviews of study will be published in September

2014 for Years 1-10• Bahasa Malaysia will not be compulsory for non-

Malaysians• Considerable investment into new text books and

course for Mandarin, Malay, French and Spanish• French will begin for Year 10 students

Thank you Any Questions?

Thursday 26th June 2014