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Research and Good Practice

Educational research has shown that sharing good practice is a particularly effective way of improving teaching and learnning. The purpose of this page is to share appropriate and relevant examples of good practice from across the LEA. If you would like to suggest or recommend examples of good practice, please contact the subject adviser.

2-Week Primary Teachers' Project new

The 2-Week Primary Teachers' Project, with full funding from Comenius in-service training grants, supports the training of primary school teachers engaged in language teaching at KS2.

Teachers are recruited by regional coordinators to attend training that incorporates 1 week of language tuition in their target language and 1 week of job shadowing in a school in the country of that language.

Katharine Wheatley, Primary Languages co-ordinator at Dame Alice Owen’s Language College in Potters Bar, will be leading a group of Hertfordshire primary teachers on a two-week stay in France in October 2008.

National Advisory Centre on Early Language Learning

The NACELL best practice guide brings together possible curriculum models and a selection of examples in the form of case studies, guidance and schemes of work.

Case Studies - Primary KS2

French at Presdales School

As part of the Language College development plan (Phase III Community Links) Presdales School employed two members of staff (each on a 0.6 timetable) to introduce and teach French to Year 6 pupils in local feeder schools from September 2001.