European Languages Day - Thursday 26th September
Here at Edwards we had a wonderful afternoon celebrating European Day of Languages. Each class focussed on a different European country and took part in an activity linked to that location. We had Makaton in EYFS and Spanish animal names in Year 1. Year 2 took on France as the fashion capital of the world and designed their own European Day of Languages t-shirt. Ireland was voted the friendliest country in Europe so Year 3 created posters for peace. Year 4 created a poster for the Hamburg music festival. Year 5 took on a language voted the hardest to learn… Czech! Finally, our Year 6s explored the Swedish language and the longest European word… nordvästersjökustartilleriflygspaningssimulatoranläggningsmaterielunderhållsuppföljningssystemdiskussionsinläggsförberedelsearbeten! We all had a brilliant afternoon, just take a look at our pictures and videos!
Alanna and Mila from Year 6 enjoyed reading out their own made-up word!
Why Language Angels?
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Language Angels is our chosen scheme for the teaching and learning of French across school. This is because:
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It is completely curriculum compliant
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it has been written around the twelve DfE languages Programmes of Study attainment targets
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It includes a full teaching programme for EYFS and KS1 which is not just a watered-down version of KS2 teaching, but bespoke lesson ideas for these year groups and their needs.
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Has long, medium and short term planning and fully resourced lessons for whole primary phase
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Uses a step-by-step approach including the three pillars of language teaching (phonics, grammar and vocabulary)
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Previous language is recycled, revisited and consolidated as a planned part of the progressions within the scheme
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Audio sound files are included to ensure authentic pronunciation is modelled
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Excellent support for the non-specialist teacher
