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Compact News and Progress Update |
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Welcome to the updates page of the CILT Cymru website, dedicated to passing
on information and ideas from the CILT Cymru Compact project.
For information on the Compact Agreement, please click here
The Compact Success Story Continues
So far, reports from the Compact project 2005-6 are encouraging and
suggest that the project is really working. A whopping 77.78% of schools
report that take-up in their school has risen in KS4 for 2006-7. Congratulations
to all those MFL departments in Compact partner schools who are seeing
their hard work paying off.
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Partnership with Neath Port Talbot
The partnership with Neath Port Talbot got off to a successful start
last term, with 5 secondary schools receiving advisory visits from
Kristina Hedges, Language Teaching Adviser at CILT Cymru. At the end
of the term, all MFL teachers in the county got together for a day,
supported by CILT Cymru, where they discussed progress through the
National Curriculum levels, ICT and how to motivate year 9, along
with a session devoted to new developments in language teaching, and
ideas for starter and plenary activities, and activities to develop
pupils’ thinking skills. According to the excellent evaluations,
teachers really appreciated the opportunity to get together with
colleagues from other schools and share experiences.
We hope that the partnership with Neath Port Talbot continues to
go from strength to strength in the months to come.
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Compact Schools headline in TES Teacher
The Compact project featured in an article about Wales’ national
languages strategy in TES Teacher on 12th May 2006. Cathays High
School, Blackwood Comprehensive, St Illtyd’s RC High and Eirias
High School all got a mention, with Cathays High School pupil Barbara
Smith’s poem (see below) in pride of place.
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Si j’étais un cheval,
Je serais un pur sang
Je serais gracieux dans son enjambée
Amical de temperament et adorable à tout temps.
Si j’étais un champ
Je serais grand et vaste
Si j’étais un festival
Je serais joyeux et étincelant
Si j’étais un mois
Je serais le mois de mars gracieux
Et frais
Si j’étais un temps
Je serais une tornade sauvage et folle.
Barbara Smith (year 9)
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It’s great to see the project gaining recognition for the
hard work you’re all putting in to raising the status of MFL
in Wales and it’s nice to think that we can offer solutions
to schools in England who may now be faced with similar recruitment
difficulties, as MFL becomes an ‘entitlement’ at key
stage 4.
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Updates on the website
If you would like to see your school on the website, please send some
digital photos or examples of work from your project. |
Kristina Hedges
Language Teaching Adviser
kristina.hedges@ciltcymru.org.uk
Tel: 029 2043 6354
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