South East

This is a challenging and exciting Language Learning Day for gifted and talented language pupils hosted by the University of Portsmouth in partnership with Aimhigher.  Pupils will be involved in a variety of extension and enrichment activities and will have access to DVD viewing facilities, a computer suite, satellite TV, a virtual learning laboratory and authentic materials.  They will be supported by native language speakers, trainee language teachers, school teachers and university staff.  Pupils will be able to take home the work they have produced, a University of Portsmouth certificate, and an Aimhigher goody bag.  At the end of the second day, pupils' parents will also be invited to an evening event where they will be able to experience language taster sessions, listen to a presentation on "Why Study Languages?", and receive advice on how to support their child with language study.

Tutors and language students from the University of Sussex Centre for Language Studies will work with invited sixth form students on a language and media workshop.

Guided by tutors and supported by language ambassador degree students, participants will work collaboratively to create a radio interview to be broadcast in French. The structure of the interview, centred on the "Third Year Abroad" experience, will be planned during an initial language workshop where students will also be introduced to key specialist vocabulary and concepts.

In a following session, the group will be introducted to the professional media editing studios and facilities in the School of Media, Film and Music. Here they will record and edit the interviews to be later available as podcasts.

During 2013-14 language students at Sussex created and designed three radio shows which were broadcast and offered as podcasts on the increasingly popular station French Radio London. The broadcasts (from 3rd, 10th, 17th December 2013) can be listened to here.

This languages challenge is an event for Year 10 students run by Solent EBP in conjunction with the University of Southampton. Pupils will be invited to work in small groups using the target language to produce brochures or leaflets advertising what visiting tourists could do in the Southampton area.

Please note that this event is open to students in the Southampton, Winchester, Eastleigh and New Forest areas only.

Please contact Zena Hilton at the University of Southampton for further information.