South West

An Introduction to Mandarin Chinese language and culture by a qualified native speaker.
This is suitable for complete beginners of any age, staff members are also welcome provided they are beginners too!
These classes are free but participants have to pay for their own transport to the Plymouth Business School.

The day will run from 9.45 am to 1 pm.

After the first very successful year we are again delighted to offer secondary schools in the South West this unique opportunity to take part in our exciting and creative joint project -- Bristol French Drama Festival, which will take place on Saturday 8th March 2014 at the University of Bristol.

You can learn to run a French theatre club for your pupils, culminating with a fun performance for all! Pupils will perform a piece prepared in their drama club and share it with other participants, friends and families!

To watch the highlights of the festival last year, please visit our YouTube RiLSouthWest Channel.

This is a joint event with Theatre VO: www.theatre-vo.com

After the first very successful year we are again delighted to offer secondary schools in the South West this unique opportunity to take part in our exciting and creative joint project -- Bristol French Drama Festival, which will take place on Saturday 8th March 2014 at the University of Bristol.

Your French assistant can learn to run a theatre club in French for your pupils, culminating with a fun performance for all! Pupils will perform a piece prepared in their drama club and share it with other participants, friends and families!

To watch the highlights of the festival last year, please visit our YouTube RiLSouthWest Channel.

This is a joint event with Theatre VO: www.theatre-vo.com

For the French Drama Festival 2015, click here

Bristol French Drama Festival – an exciting and creative project for secondary schools in the South West, organised by Routes into Languages South West in partnership with enthusiastic and experienced drama teachers from Theatre VO – will showcase short productions prepared by French drama clubs from secondary schools on Saturday 15 March at the University of Bristol.

Foreign language assistants and teachers from several schools and two student language ambassadors attended the interactive training workshop in early November, which gave them the confidence and numerous ideas on how to develop and run a French theatre club in school. They went back to their schools with the aim to organise a French drama club for students who are interested in both subjects (French and drama) to run weekly during the lunch break or after school.

They have just over 4 months to put their experience and useful tips and ideas into practice and create a 5-10 minute performance on the pre-determined theme – this year it’s ‘Feather Duster’ – a challenging but rewarding exercise, which unlocks imagination, brings talent to light and offers teenagers a different and attractive perspective to learning foreign languages.

This will culminate with a fun performance for all – pupils will perform their production on stage and share it with other participants, friends and families at the festival in March! Three prizes will be awarded to winners – for Best Acting, Best Language Skills and Creativity. 

To watch the highlights of the festival last year, please visit our YouTube RiLSouthWest Channel.

This is a joint event with Theatre VO, a Bristol-based company with years of experience in running French theatre workshops for children and adults: http://www.theatre-vo.com/

We are delighted to announce that the festival is supported by Institut Français and this year it will run as part of the Semaine de la Langue Française et de la Francophonie: http://www.semaine-de-la-francophonie-au-royaume-uni.com/

This is an opportunity for pupils who enjoy their Spanish lessons to practice their speaking skills using a range of fun and innovative activities. There will be experienced teachers available to help with pronunciation and fluency and the low adult to student ratio ensures students speak as much Spanish as possible during the day.

Times: 9.30am-2.30pm

Cost: £32 per pupil

Criteria for identifying participants

• Pupils should enjoy their Spanish lessons in school and wish to learn new words as well as wishing to improve their pronunication.

This is a joint event with Network for Languages South West.

Times: 9.30am-2.30pm

Cost: £32 per pupil

• Pupils should be undertaking (or planning to undertake) KS4 study and wish to improve their spontaneous speaking skills.

This is a joint event with Network for Languages South West.

This is an opportunity for pupils who are taking a Spanish GCSE in the next academic year(s) to practice their speaking skills using a range of fun and innovative activities.  There will be experienced teachers available to help with pronunciation and fluency and the low adult to student ratio ensures students speak as much Spanish as possible during the day.

Times: 9.30am-2.30pm

Cost: £32 per pupil

This is a joint event with Network for Languages South West.

This is an opportunity for pupils who are taking a French GCSE in the next academic year(s) to practice their speaking skills using a range of fun and innovative activities.  There will be experienced teachers available to help with pronunciation and fluency and the low adult to student ratio ensures students speak as much French as possible during the day.

This is an opportunity for pupils who enjoy their German lessons to practice their speaking skills using a range of fun and innovative activities. There will be experienced language teachers to help with pronunciation and fluency and the low adult to student ratio ensures students speak as much German as possible during the day.

Times: 9.30am-2.30pm

Cost: £32 per pupil

Criteria for identifying participants

• Pupils should enjoy their German lessons in school and wish to learn new words as well as wishing to improve their pronunication.

This is a joint event with Network for Languages South West.

This is an opportunity for pupils who enjoy their Spanish lessons to practice their speaking skills using a range of fun and innovative activities.  There will be experienced teachers available to help with pronunciation and fluency and the low adult to student ratio ensures students speak as much Spanish as possible during the day.

Times: 9.30am-2.30pm

Cost: £32 per pupil

Criteria for identifying participants

• Pupils should enjoy their Spanish lessons in school and wish to learn new words as well as wishing to improve their pronunication.

This is a joint event with Network for Languages South West.