As part of Journée Internationale des professeurs de français 2020, Catherine Cheater, renowned primary languages specialist, will be sharing with us details of the Primary French Project and demonstrating practical activities for the classroom; Nathalie Paris, local French teacher and storyteller, will share ideas on how to exploit stories and nursery rhymes with pupils in your French lessons.

This training workshop will be delivered via Zoom and split into four 35-40 minute sessions, with breaks and a chance to network.*

Zoom Joining instructions will be sent to participants shortly before the event.

This event is sponsored by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni as part of the Newcastle City of Languages initiative, in partnership with Alliance Française de Newcastle, International Newcastle, Association for Language Learning North East, Network for Languages North East, and Newcastle University

About

https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/education/

https://www.internationalnewcastle.org.uk/

https://www.all-languages.org.uk/

https://www.lejourduprof.com/

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The Primary French Project was developed by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni, in partnership with the Association for Language Learning and Network for Languages. Designed by Primary Language specialist Catherine Cheater, among other collaborators, The Primary French Project aims to support primary schools wishing to teach French as part of the statutory curriculum for primary languages and provides free teaching materials for all who teach French in Key Stage 2, as well as for secondary MFL teachers working on transition in KS3.

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.

The teaching materials include lesson plans and PowerPoint Presentations for the interactive whiteboard, including all images and voice recordings necessary to model language and grammatical concepts to children.

The materials are aligned to KS2 year groups as follows:

Niveau bleu - year 3

Niveau blanc - year 4

Niveau rouge – year 5

Niveau tricolore – year 6

+ 1 transition level for KS3: Niveau Multicolore - year 7

The Primary French resources can be freely downloaded from either:

- Culturethèque UK digital library. First create an account (free): https://www.culturetheque.com/GBR/register.aspx , then access the resources here: https://www.culturetheque.com/GBR/primary-french.aspx

- IFprofs UK collaborative platform for teachers of French in the UK. First create an account (free): https://ifprofs.org/uk/s-inscrire/membre, then access the resources here: https://ifprofs.org/uk/groupe/primary-french-project/19023

About the trainers

Catherine Cheater is an author and consultant 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 on www.goldendaffodils.co.uk. She is a consultant to the Primary French Project (a joint project between the Institut français de Londres (IFRU), the Association for Language Learning (ALL) and Network for Languages). In 2005, Catherine was awarded the honour of Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Embassy in London. In March 2018 Catherine was made a fellow of the Association for Language Learning.

Nathalie Paris was a secondary languages teacher for 19 years with responsibility for outreach primary languages teaching and transition from KS2 to KS3; for the past 5 years she has worked as a part-time primary languages teacher and the owner of Nattalingo, specialising in storytelling sessions in French. Nathalie is also a speaker, a blogger, a podcaster and a football coach… all skills which she uses to enhance language teaching and learning around her. Nathalie is an active board member of the Alliance Française de Newcastle, a volunteer for the Association for Language Learning, and teaches at the Petite École de Newcastle.

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