Beyond the Language Barrier MFL CPD Day

Info: This fast-paced, interactive session demonstrates how a complete GCSE-aligned lesson can be built live in just 45 minutes, showcasing AI tools that support listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Starting with key principles of safe and responsible AI use, participants will engage in polls and live demonstrations — from creating transcripts, dialogues and illustrated storybooks to generating instant quizzes. With practical classroom examples and plenty of audience participation, the session highlights how AI can save time, boost creativity, and align seamlessly with the new GCSE curriculum.

Info: Struggle to find age-appropriate listening resources? In this session, you’ll learn why listening is key to language success and how to create your own in minutes. Discover how to prompt with the PREPARE framework, turn scripts into audio with TTS Maker, add visuals with Vidnoz or Adobe Express, create podcasts with Brisk, and even generate catchy songs with Suno to bring language to life. Leave with your first custom listening activity ready to use and the confidence to make more.

Info: Discover practical, classroom-ready strategies to make adaptive teaching truly effective in Modern Foreign Languages. This CPD session will equip you with techniques that ensure every learner - whatever their starting point - can access, engage with, and make progress in MFL. From differentiating tasks and scaffolding language input to tailoring feedback and using formative assessment, you’ll leave with a toolkit of approaches to meet the diverse needs of your students. The focus is on real, tried-and-tested strategies you can implement straight away to help every learner succeed.

Info: This session will explore empowered thinking in the classroom – how to challenge bias and go beyond echo chambers. She will share practical strategies on how to encourage students to be more empowered to challenge in the classroom. A session for both Geography AND MFL teachers. 

Info: The study of languages is in decline and under threat. One reason may be a failure to change in reaction to change: why are we still teaching French and Spanish in primary schools and only using English when our schools have more and more multilingual pupils? WoLLoW offers an entirely new approach, exploring languages, not teaching one language, encouraging curiosity and dialogue and debate, using the languages which the pupils already know. Thereby we aim to give the pupils pride in themselves and their cultures, to help understanding of each other, and to make them think that languages can be a) fun, b) central to our lives and c) useful.

Info: In this session, we will explore the powerful impact of integrating mini-whiteboards into your everyday teaching practice. Checking for understanding is one of the most vital parts of any lesson, providing the evidence we need to adapt our teaching and shape future planning. So why not gather clear, whole-class feedback on what students truly understand and where misconceptions lie, simply through the effective use of mini-whiteboards? While some teachers avoid mini-whiteboards due to concerns about behaviour or distraction, this session reframes them as a tool for engagement and improved classroom management. We'll learn how consistent routines and clear protocols can transform mini-whiteboards into an essential part of a responsive teaching approach.

Info: Get ready to laugh, play, and level up your phonics in this fast-paced, interactive workshop inspired by Private Joke® (in Franglais) — the language-learning card game with chunky letter tiles! Working in teams, participants will recreate real words from sounds, invent hilarious new ones, and present them in creative ways, discovering cultural gems along the way — from quirky French expressions to idioms from around the world. Teachers will leave with practical ideas to make phonics playful and meaningful: embedding decoding and blending through humour, reducing fear of mistakes, and sparking curiosity about language and culture. Phonics becomes a joyful, empowering experience that celebrates connection, creativity, and expression — with prizes to be won!

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