North West

French Essay Writing for Film – La Haine (Year 13)

Wednesday, 18 January, 2016 -1:00 0 4:00 pm

The event focuses on a popular film studied by A2 students. The workshop will include the following elements: structuring an essay, arguing and illustrating a point, focusing on characters, themes and director’s style, building a phrase-bank to discuss films and learning film terminology.

There is a charge of £9 per pupil to cover some of the costs. 

French Essay Writing for Film – La Haine (Year 13)

Wednesday 7th December  2016, 1.00pm - 4.00pm

The event focuses on a popular film studied by A2 students. The workshop will include the following elements: structuring an essay, arguing and illustrating a point, focusing on characters, themes and director’s style, building a phrase-bank to discuss films and learning film terminology.

There is a charge of £9 per pupil to cover some of the costs. 

Spanish Essay Writing for Film - Pan’s Labyrinth (Year 13)

Wednesday, 30th  November 2016, 1.00 pm - 4.00 pm

The event focuses on a popular film studied by A2 students. The workshop will include the following elements: structuring an essay, arguing and illustrating a point, focusing on characters, themes and director’s style, building a phrase-bank to discuss films and learning film terminology.

There is a charge of £9 per pupil to cover some of the costs.

Spanish Essay Writing for Film - Almódovar (Year 13)

Wednesday 7th December 2016, 1.00pm - 4.00pm

The event focuses on a popular film studied by A2 students. The workshop will include the following elements: structuring an essay, arguing and illustrating a point, focusing on characters, themes and director’s style, building a phrase-bank to discuss films and learning film terminology.

There is a charge of £9 per pupil to cover some of the costs.

Film and Culture Event (Year 10 and 11)

Wednesday 16th November 2016 , 10.00am – 2.30pm

University of Liverpool

The Film and Culture Event (FACE) is for language students in Year 10 and 11.  It is designed to highlight the benefits of learning languages through a careers  talk and to show the fun way in which languages can be taught with a film session (in French, Spanish or German). There are also two taster sessions in a less commonly taught language such as Arabic, Farsi or Chinese Mandarin to highlight the diverse range of language study options available at a higher level.

The aim of the event is to boost students’ enthusiasm for language learning so that they continue with their languages to ‘A’ Level and beyond. The event is an excellent opportunity to show pupils the variety of languages on offer and a range of fun ways they can learn.

These events are usually very popular and places will be allocated after the closing date of Monday 31st  October 2016.

There is a charge of £9 per pupil to cover some of the costs. 

Urdu Digital Teaching and Learning Conference & New GCSE Training and Support for Urdu Teachers

Wednesday 13th July 2016, 9.30am - 3.30pm

Levenshulme High School http://www.levenshulmehigh.co.uk/contact-us/

The Programme is available as an attachment (below).

Routes into Languages North West Subscription Package

Please complete the Expression of Interest Form and return this to us by Monday 9^th May 2016. This will assist us in programme planning for 2016/2017. 

For more information about the Subscription Packages please email routes@mmu.ac.uk

Language Enrichment Event for Year 8 Pupils

Manchester Metropolitan University

Tuesday 21st June 2016

10am - 2.30pm

Our ever-popular Language Enrichment Events for year 8 pupils are back. These are interactive, exciting events that encourage pupils to continue with their language studies at school and to think about the advantages of learning a new language or gaining a qualification in a language they may speak at home. These events have proved extremely popular with pupils and language teachers over the years and our research has shown a 24% increase in pupils taking language GCSEs after they attended the events. 

The events use language tasters and cultural activities in less widely taught languages (e.g. Arabic and Mandarin) to encourage the learning of languages generally.

Cost per pupil: £5

Subsidised by Routes into Languages NW.

Priority will be given to schools that have not attended a Language Enrichment Event in previous years.

Winners of the Mother Tongue Other Tongue Poetry Competition will be invited to the Celebration Event at Manchester Metropolitan University on Thursday 30th June 2016.

http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/mothertongueothertongue/national-celebration-event/

Here is the video from the 2015 Celebration Event.

Closing date: 8th June 2016

http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/mothertongueothertongue/

Mother Tongue Other Tongue is a national Laureate Education Project, led by the Poet Laureate, Dame Carol Ann Duffy. Regional competitions and events take place throughout the year. The competition is co-ordinated by Routes into Languages.

The competition is officially endorsed by Malala Yousafzai, youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner and education activist.

‌Award winning boxer, Amir Khan, launched the 2015 competition on 2nd February. Amir had this to say about the competition;

"I think it's important to encourage more pupils in school to learn a language and this competition is a great way to boost children's confidence."

There are two separate parts to the poetry competition. Children from Year 4 to Year 13 can enter one or both parts of the competition.

The Other Tongue part of the competition encourages children learning another language in school to use that language creatively to write a poem.The Mother Tongue part of the competition requires children who do not have English as a first language, or who speak a different language at home, to share a lullaby, poem or song from their Mother Tongue. They then write a short piece in English to explain the poem’s significance to them.