Spent a fantastic day today at a Languages Conference, with our lovely languages teacher, organised by the local Primary Languages team. It was lovely to see languages in action - the Theatre Sans Frontieres was brilliant. It is such a shame that we don't have any money in the school budget to pay for things like that. I also really enjoyed the ideas for a Languages Day, which we are planning on adapting for our school Language Day in September. The children would love it - we just need to get the rest of the staff on board now!
I also went to a workshop which looked at languages in secondary schools and feel that this is definitely the area I want to head for. On the down side, I also found out today the the local University is not running the Student Associates Scheme for MFL at secondary as their funding has been cut, meaning my plan of spending some quality time in a secondary school has disappeared. I will have to find another route in now.
Anyway, my head is now buzzing with all the things that can be done with languages and I just want the opportunity to put them into practise. Need to get my head down and ensure a good degree classification and really improve my language skills so that I am employable!
