South East

Presented by Roma Schulz of the Goethe Institut, this twilight workshop will be held at the University of Brighton (Falmer Site, Checkland Building)  from 4.00-5.30pm. It is a free CPD session for teachers.

The workshop will equip you in supporting students to "communicate for practical purposes and learn new ways of thinking" (DfE Programme of Study for Languages). Find out how to engage students whose main subject of interest is not German! Develop their thinking skills, learn about the MINT initiative and capitalise on cross-curricular ideas.

Designed for secondary teachers and trainees but primary school colleagues are welcome. Book now to avoid disappointment!

To reserve a place, please email Clare Forder.

The Oxford German Olympiad competition on the theme "1914" is open to all learners of German from years 5 to 13 inclusive in the United Kingdom.

A flyer and the registration form are available via the Oxford German Network website.

A prize-giving event will be held in Oxford for competition winners.

Please contact the Oxford German Network co-ordinator if you have any questions: ogn@mod.langs.ox.ac.uk.

The project Joining Up German Teaching in the UK is designed to foster cooperation between teachers of German in secondary and primary schools. Teachers interested in participating should visit the Oxford German Network website on www.ogn.ox.ac.uk and complete the brief survey.

For further information, please contact Heike Bruton at ogp@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk.

This event provides an opportunity for Year 7 & 8 pupils to learn a new language and to highlight how language learning can open doors to a wide variety of experiences.

Pupils will take part in a variety of activities run by Language and Area Studies students and multi-national students. Each activity will contain elements of culture, history and personal experiences from countries around the world.

Schools will be contacted directly to book places at this event. However, if you have any queries, please contact Liz Haigh at the University of Portsmouth.

This is an event for Year 9 students to emphasise the importance of languages in the global economy. There will be workshops led by employers to explain the varied use of languages and the skills that learning a language has given them; lunch with student ambassadors; information about work placements as part of university courses and a taster session in a less commonly taught language.

Schools can bring up to 10 students to this event. Please ensure you complete the event booking form in order to register your places. If you have any questions, please contact Amy Wigham at the University of Reading.

This project, led by the University of Southampton, arranges for final year Modern Languages students to return to their previous school or college to talk about studying languages and the advantages of including a year abroad in a degree programme.

In the case of younger year groups (e.g Years 9-10), talks are normally delivered in English. For older groups (e.g. Years 11-13), students may, in agreement with teachers,  deliver part or all of their session in the language of the country where they spent their year abroad, or in one of the other languages they are studying for their degree.

If you are a teacher working in a school or college with a former student studying Modern Languages at Southampton, please contact us to see if we can arrange a visit from your former student. As Final year Modern Languages students at Southampton are being encouraged to contact their former schools and colleges themselves, don’t be surprised either if you receive an email or call from a former student offering to come and inspire your current cohort!

For further details contact Zena Hilton at the University of Southampton.

Led by Julie Nye, experienced Community Music Educator, who specialises in working with people who believe they can’t sing. Julie’s workshop will equip you with both a range of foreign language songs to help you celebrate a multilingual Christmas and the skills to teach them in school. Suitable for teachers and co-ordinators of languages in primary and secondary schools,  non-musical colleagues and music co-ordinators.

The event is free and will run from 4.00-5.30pm. It will be held at the University of Brighton's Falmer campus in the Asa Briggs lecture theatre (Checkland Building, Room C122 - ground floor).

Please forward details of this event to any colleague who may be interested in attending. Register by sending an email with your name and school to c.l.forder@brighton.ac.uk.

The University of Sussex invites Year 10 students studying Modern Languages to an Advertising workshop day on campus on Wednesday 3rd July from 10am to 2.30pm.

This activity aims to introduce students to the principles of advertising and marketing through the creative use of a modern language.

After an initial group welcome and introductory talk, students will work in target language workshops with University language tutors to analyse target language adverts before producing their own advert. The adverts may be created in different formats, such as poster, packaging, webpage, film clip etc.

Following a picnic lunch (provided) - outside if the weather permits - students will work on the group presentation of their morning activity. These will then be displayed digitally during a plenary session in a lecture theatre before departure.

The finished adverts will be available for display on campus, in schools and on the Routes into Languages website.

Seven languages are offered:

• French - non-beginners
• German - non-beginners
• Italian - beginners/non-beginners
• Spanish - non-beginners
• Arabic - beginners
• Chinese - beginners/non-beginners
• Japanese - beginners/non-beginners

Places, split across the different language groups, will initially be limited to 12 per school.

If you are interested in taking part in this event, please complete a registration form stating the number of places you require and the target language or languages your students will work in.

Please note that a cancellation policy applies to this event. A charge of £5 per place booked will be charged if there are any no-shows on the day or if places are not cancelled within two weeks of the event (i.e. by 19th June 2013).

Year 8 students from the 10 schools in the Fareham and Gosport cluster of secondary schools are invited to the University of Portsmouth's School of Education to take part in a range of intercultural activities on Wednesday 12 June.

They will be able to attend six sessions lasting 30 minutes each. These include:

African drumming

Moldovan singing

Chinese calligraphy

Italian gestures

French street language

German food

and many more!

The activities will be delivered for the University's 30 internationally diverse PGCE MFL trainee teachers.

If you are interested in bringing your students, please complete an application form and send it to Tanya Riordan.

Routes into Languages South is pleased to annouce that the annual Love Languages? Live Languages! conference for students in years 10-12 will be running again this year!

This one-day event will take place on Friday 8th March 2013 between 10.30am (10am registration) and 2.30pm. It will aim to showcase to students the importance of foreign language learning; how languages can be studied at university and the different types of career and job pathways open to those with language skills.

Places are currently limited to a maximum of 12 per school/college so book now to avoid disappointment! Please note that we do operate a cancellation policy for this event, whereby a charge of £5 per place booked will be applied if reservations are cancelled after Friday 22nd February or if there are any no-shows on the day. To register for the event, please follow the link below. 

You can expect to: hear short presentations from those who use languages in their jobs; take part in a 'market place' session where you can talk to university tutors about studying languages and languages professionals about different jobs and careers; listen to current students talk about their language experiences.