We began the day with a warm welcome from Kathryn
Board, CILT's Chief Executive, and Therese
Comfort, Head of Primary.
Therese presented CILT's new
"Lift Off" pack for subject coordinators
which was sent to all primary schools in October 2009. A
PowerPoint which you can use to showcase it to colleagues
-containing screenshots of the pack and the CD contents - is
now available (Download
PPT, 4.3MB).
Duncan Wilson, an AST from Birmingham LA,
spoke about the general principles behind formative assessment in
the general context of the primary school.
Jane Jones from King’s College London gave the
keynote address, exploring issues of assessment in primary
languages, looking particularly at the contribution of
AfL. (Download
PPT, 190KB)
Therese Comfort and Kati
Szeless from CILT presented the latest documents from
Asset Languages who, in conjunction with CILT, are in the process
of writing support materials to help teachers identify, plan for
and record progression in languages at KS2 with reference to the
Languages Ladder. (Download
PPT, 1.2MB)
Joe Brown, CILT and Hugh
Baldry, TDA ran a session seeking to identify
issues for consideration as the group collectively arrives at
an understanding of what a good primary languages would look
like. You can download both their presentation (Download
PPT, 1MB) and their presentation notes (Download
PDF, 300KB).
News: Phil Wood (Lancashire LA) has contributed
his Rationale document which has a section referring to best
practice, read it here. Louis
Harty (Northumberland) has also submitted a document setting out
principles for good languages lessons, click here to
read.
Pam Haezewindt, Ofsted presented recent
findings from Ofsted inspection visits in primary schools around
the country. (Download
PPT, 962KB)
Carmel O'Hagan from CILT presented the
latest on the Language Upskilling specification, being launched in
October 09, to support language training for primary teachers' own
linguistic development.
The full conference programme is available
here (PDF, 102KB).
Next: Conclusion