Primary Strategy MFL Team

About the Languages Team....

 

The team comprises a Senior Consultant plus a part-time Consultant who works Tuesdays and Wednesdays.  They lead a team of Leading Teachers who have experience and expertise in teaching a foreign language to Primary children  The team is spread acrosss the large rural county of Somerset in a strategic plan to make them accessible to a wide number of teachers. 

It is an important feature of the Languages Team that they are part of the wider Primary Strategy Team.

The Language Colleges - Kingsmead, Wiveliscombe; Haygrove, Bridgwater and Huish, Langport are also working in partnership with their local schools to implement primary languages.

 

Lesley Hooper: Senior Primary MFL Consultant. (That's me in the centre of the picture!)

I taught in a Middle School for more than 25 years.  In 2002 I became an Advanced Skills Teacher  and began to work with a number of Primary schools developing the capability of class teachers to teach MFL.  I  was apppointed to  the  post of Primary Strategy Consultant for MFL in 2005.  In 2008 I was promoted to full-time Senior Primary MFL Consultant.  I am THRILLED with the way Somerset teachers have embraced teaching KS2 MFL.

 

 

 

Liz Osgood: MFL Consultant.

 

Paula Baker: Leading Teacher

I am a KS2 teacher, working in a small village school in Meare.  I have been teaching French in my mixed age class of year 3 and 4 pupils for the last four years.  My enthusiasm stems from many years of family holidays in Brittany, coupled with a French A-Level! 

  

As you will gather from the picture, I am not teaching at the moment....please meet Oliver William Baker, born 3rd May 2008.

More recently, as the new Framework for Languages has been introduced, I have been involved in writing the Somerset plans for teaching French.  I have also taken part in National training for the new Framework for Languages and worked alongside other teachers to deliver training for using the Somerset plans and for making cross-curricular links with languages.

For the past year I have had the opportunity to teach French throughout the school.  I have really enjoyed being able to trial new ideas and strategies, obtained through national and regional training. I feel that the Languages Framework has really opened the door to so many new and exciting activities for teaching and learning a language.

The children in my school think that French is fun! I agree! They enjoy playing games, singing songs, reading French books and making things - especially the fruit salad that they have recently made, using a French recipe!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Janet Mair: LEading Teacher.

I teach Year 3 & 4 at Neroche Primary School, Broadway near Ilminster.  I also teach French to a Year 4 & 5 class.

Both classes really enjoy the fun, practical learning of a foreign language. They love joining in with French stories and songs the most.

Giuliana Butt: Leading Teacher.

I teach at Stoberry Park in Wells.  As well as teaching KS2 French I also do Italian with KS1.  I have produced an electronic version of the European Language Portfolio that I have begun to use with Year 6 pupils. 

Lucie Haddon: Leading Teacher.

I teach  year 4/5 at Ilchester school. I teach French to my own class  and to years 3 and 6 as well. The children have thoroughly enjoyed the experience and now some of the other teachers at Ilchester have been inspired to teach their own classes.

Catherine Lang: Leading teacher.

I teach a Year 3/4 mixed age class at Wellsprings Primary School in Taunton . We were one of the host schools for a Primary FLA in Somerset 2007 - 2008 . I have introduced a rolling programme of French for KS2, as well as French to KS1 and the Foundation Stage. I took part in the 2 week teacher abroad Comenius project to France in 2007. Before teaching I worked as a TEFL teacher in Italy .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elizabeth Winter: Leading Teacher.I

 have been teaching Year 4 at Huish Primary School in Yeovil for 4 years. When I arrived I was asked to take on the role of MFL as the school was not yet teaching languages. I have therefore helped to implement the teaching of languages for the past two years. Whilst studying for my degree I spent a year teaching abroad. I have also spent two months at a summer camp in Italy teaching Italian children English.

 

Tanya Mitchell: Leading Teacher.

I  teach Spanish at North Town Primary in Taunton .  I have helped my school to implement Spanish across both KS1 & KS2.  I helped to organise the first group of children to visit their link school in Motril, Granada in March 2008 which was the first visit of it’s kind as part of the Somerset/Andalucia link.  I was very proud that my school won the Spanish School of the Year Award in a competition run by the Spanish Embassy in London in July 2008.

 

MFL Back up team