The Voice of Primary Languages

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The Voice of Primary Languages is a podcast dedicated to supporting and inspiring primary language teachers. Each episode explores practical strategies, expert insights, and engaging resources to enha... more

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The podcast currently has 72 episodes available.

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March 31, 2020 How PLN are helping with home learning and key workers
Strange times indeed!

Hope everybody and their loved ones are doing well, this podcast is just to reach out with what we are currently offering to members and non-members in help with this whole 'national crisis'

1. Home learning and key workers projects found on the dashboards
2. Ideas for home learning posted on our Instagram, follow us at primarylanguagesnetwork
3. Revision videos with Irene and Emilie our French and Spanish speakers, videos will be up on Youtube search Primary Languages Network
4. Any questions or enquiries don't hesitate to ask us

I hope this helps, stay safe, we will be updating you again shortly

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6min
February 27, 2020 Specialist Teachers- Making the most of your teacher membership
Podcast about making the most of your teacher membership. In line with blog post on the webpage
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19min
January 09, 2020 Knowledge Organisers- With Catherine and Will
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In todays episode, we talk about knowledge organizers
We have recently created them in line with all the content on the scheme of work, and be used in a multitude of different ways as explained on the podcast
We are busy finishing off all knowledge organizers, but initial ones can be found from the dashboard, click on MFL coordinator tools and then you can access it through a folder called knowledge organizers
We intend on creating an index with all links to the KO's so you can put the document onto your webpage

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9min
November 27, 2019 Ideas for Xmas- With Emilie and Kate
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All the ideas discussed today are found on the VLE, follow this pathway

Dashboard --> Seasonal specials --> Hot topics --> Christmas --> select language
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10min
November 06, 2019 French Story time (for students)- Hungry Caterpillar
This is all about listening to a story in another language. Follow along with Emilie and dive into the amazing world of the hungry caterpillar.
Listen to this yourself first, the first part of the audio is highlighting keyword and key verbs in the story and the story itself begins at 2:45
The transcript to the story is below along with all the keywords
Key words:
La lune – the moon
Une feuille – a leaf
Le soleil – the sun
La chenille – the caterpillar
Elle a très faim – she’s very hungry
Elle mange – she eats
Le ventre – tummy/belly
Le papillon – the butterfly

La chenille qui fait des trous by Eric Carle. (simplified for PLN)
Dans la lumière de la lune, un petit œuf repose sur une feuille.
In the light of the moon, a little egg lay on a leaf.
Un beau dimanche matin, le soleil se lève et POP !
One beautiful Sunday morning, the sun rises and POP!
Une minuscule chenille sort de l’œuf.
A tiny caterpillar comes out of the egg.
Elle a très faim.
She’s very hungry.
Aussitôt, elle part à la recherche de nourriture.
She goes looking for food.
Lundi, elle mange une pomme, mais elle a encore faim !
On Monday, she eats an apple, but she is still hungry!
Mardi, elle mange deux poires, mais elle a encore faim !
On Tuesday, she eats two pears, but she is still hungry!
Mercredi, elle mange trois prunes, mais elle a encore faim !
On Wednesday, she eats three plums, but she is still hungry!
Jeudi, elle mange quatre fraises, mais elle a encore faim !
On Thursday, she eats four strawberries, but she is still hungry!
Vendredi, elle mange cinq oranges, mais elle a encore faim !
On Friday, she eats five oranges, but she is still hungry!
Samedi, elle mange un gâteau, une glace, un cornichon, du fromage, une sucette, une tarte à la cerise, une saucisse, une brioche et de la pastèque.
On Saturday, she eats a cake, an ice-cream, a pickle, some cheese, a lollipop, a cherry pie, a sausage, a cupcake and some watermelon.
Cette nuit-là, elle a mal au ventre.
That night, she has a stomach ache.
Dimanche, elle mange une feuille verte.
Sunday, she eats a green leaf.
Maintenant, elle va bien !
Now, she’s fine!
Elle est devenue une grosse chenille.
She’s become a big caterpillar.
Elle fait un cocon.
She makes a cocoon.
Deux semaines plus tard elle devient un superbe papillon.
Two weeks later, she becomes a beautiful butterfly.
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8min
November 04, 2019 All about our Language teachers- Janet and Emilie (coordinator)
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This weeks podcast is a conversation between Janet Lloyd and Emilie Woodroffe (Language teachers coordinator)
Any enquiries, don't hesitate to contact Emilie - [email protected]

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10min
October 23, 2019 5 updates to the PLN Scheme of Work
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This week is all about scheme of work updates, Will, Janet and Emilie talk through the updates that have occurred since the start of the year
Summary of updates
1. Language Detectives resources- Phonetic detectives, Reading Comprehension and Counting detectives have been implemented
2. Native speaker children videos- video of native speaker Spanish (French coming soon) children are now embedded across the curriculum
3. QR code sheets- opportunities for independent learning at home or at the end of the lesson using our interactive resources and a QR sheet, found at the bottom of each click2teach curriculum
4. Read and Understand- Opportunities for LKS2 to do reading comprehension, found in Summer 1 of click2teach
5. Creative links- ideas to start being cross-curricular, ideal for the non-specialist who is looking to develop their teaching

Any questions don't hesitate to contact me at [email protected]
Interested in how we can help your school with delivering languages? Please contact [email protected]

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19min
October 14, 2019 Languages Ideas for Bonfire Night- Catherine Simms
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This week’s podcast is all about being Bonfire Night. Listen along with Catherine and Will as they talk about how you can celebrate Bonfire Night with your language learners across school.
We will run through a few activities you can use from Seasonal Specials, and we also have some resources in KS1 Language Explorers so you can celebrate with your younger learners.
We hope you will enjoy using our Bonfire Night resources, please remember to share anything you do, and have a blast!
Below are links to all we mention in the podcast
Link to Bonfire Night resources folder in Seasonal Specials
Link to Bonfire Night activity guide with links
Link to KS1 Language Explorers (Bonfire Night resources are in Year 1 Autumn 2 in French and Spanish)

Contact us on [email protected]

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7min
October 11, 2019 Practical solutions to tackling OFSTED in Primary Languages- Catherine Simms
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This week’s podcast is all about being Ofsted ready. Listen along with Catherine and Will as they talk about how to prepare for an Ofsted visit, what Ofsted would be looking for and how the resources on the VLE can help you to be ready.
We will run through the meaning of intent, implementation and impact and how you can demonstrate this using the resources on the VLE.
We hope this will help you to feel ready for an Ofsted visit and fell confident in demonstrating your intent, implementation and impact.
Below are links to all we mention in the podcast
Link to Ofsted Ready blog post
Link to Impact and Primary Languages blog post
Link to Ofsted Ready chart on VLE

Contact us on [email protected]

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15min
October 07, 2019 KS1 and KS2 Language Learning- with Emilie, Janet and Joanne
First of all
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In short, this week's podcast is a really good listen!
This week is all about looking at language learning in KS1 and KS2, these three people are very experienced in all aspects of Primary Language learning, and offer their perspectives of the important parts of what makes a good KS1 and KS2 lesson/
They discuss the subtle differences between, and the expectations of each lesson type.

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14min

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