South East

Year 9 students will spend the day at Portsmouth Study Centre and at Fratton Park to prepare for and deliver two challenges:

Creating a multimedia video in a target language to attract a striker to the football club

To create a presentation in the target language to lure the player

The videos will be uploaded to a blog and the one with the most views by 9th October 2014 will win a prize.

This event is designed to help students use the target language with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity. It will also help prepare them for GCSE and further study.

This conference is aimed at primary and secondary school teachers in the South East (Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth, Southampton and West Sussex LAs) and will focus on issues relating to transition, new curricula and assessment. It will also provide an opportunity for teachers to network and collaborate, as well as to find out about overseas experiences and opportunities for themselves and their students.

The event will be held at the University of Winchester and will run from 9.30am-3.30pm.

To register or for further details, please contact Marnie Seymour.

This World of Work event for students in years 8 and 9 demonstrates the value and importance of languages in the workplace. Students will take part in an interactive quiz, hear from business speakers and enjoy a language taster session.

Event times:

Registration - 9.45am

Finish - 2.15pm

Routes into Christmas is an after-school event for 6th Formers based on a Christmas theme. It offers sample lectures in French, German or Spanish to give an idea of what studying languages at university might be like, with the opportunity to speak to tutors in the languages department. A taster session in a more unusual language is also provided, as well as an introduction to translating and interpreting.

The workshop will run from 16.00-18.45.

Help celebrate this year's European Day of Languages (26.09.14) by entering our poster competition! Simply choose a word relating to the European Day of Languages, translate it  into a foreign language of your choice and then illustrate it.

Entries should be on one side of A4 paper/card and contain one word. Illustrations should be done by hand.

Please make sure your name, school and year group are written on the front of your entry, with your teacher's name and email address on the back.

One entry per person.

Entries should be posted to:

Clare Forder

School of Humanities

The Checkland Building - Room D331

University of Brighton

Falmer

BN1 9PH

Closing date: Monday 22nd September 2014

Entries will be judged in the following categories: best artwork (years 7-9/years 10-13) and most imaginative word (years 7-9/years 10-13).

Winners will be announced on the European Day of Languages and will receive a certificate.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions: c.l.forder@brighton.ac.uk

The National Year 7 Spelling Bee Regional Final (3rd round) for the South East will take place at the University of Brighton's Falmer campus on Friday 17th April.

Further details will be posted here nearer the time.

The National Year 7 Spelling Bee is back again this year and we are looking for non-native/non-bilingual, new learners of French, German or Spanish to participate in this exciting competition!

Registration is now open via our dedicated Spelling Bee website: www.flsb.co.uk and once you've signed up, you'll have access to the teachers' pack (which explains the rules of the competition and how it works), along with practice powerpoints so your students can get straight into the spelling buzz!

The first two rounds of the competition (class competition and school competition) take place in your school, whilst the third round (regional final) will be held at the University of Brighton. Students from all over the country will then come together for the national final, which is typically held in July.

This is a wonderful way to engage your students in vocabulary learning, memorisation and pronunciation. It's also a great confidence builder as participants become familiar with new words and sounds.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions: c.l.forder@brighton.ac.uk

The Oxford German Network is hosting its annual Weihnachtsplätzchenbackwettbewerb (Christmas biscuit baking competition) on Wednesday 26th November from 4-5.30pm at Abingdon School.

All year 8 and 9 pupils from OGN's partner schools are invited. Numbers are limited, so teachers wishing to bring a group of pupils are invited to contact ogn@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk as soon as possible.

More information about the event, including some biscuit recipes and a baking video, can be found here: http://www.ogn.ox.ac.uk/christmas-event.

Canterbury Christ Church University invites year 8 and year 9 students who are considering taking a Modern Language to GCSE, and Year 10 students who are currently part-way through their GCSE Modern Language course, to our first E-Bac Transition Conference in Summer 2012.

Over the course of the day, students will work collaboratively in a mixture of interactive workshops and seminars which will be led by University tutors, PGCE MFL trainee teachers and by Year 10 students. The intention is to challenge and extend able Year 10 linguists, working alongside PGCE trainees and university tutors, and to provide an opportunity for students in years 8-9 considering GCSE in a modern language to have support from a KS4 student.

Prizes will be awarded for the best workshops and seminars. Students will also have the chance to ask questions of the PGCE MFL trainee teachers and university tutors.

This event is for Year 12 students to think about studying languages at university. There are sessions in cultural topics, grammar and speaking in French, German or Spanish, (Italian and Portuguese is also available) plus the chance to do a taster in another language, and a talk on employability.

This event will run from 9.30am-2.30pm.

Please note that schools/colleges can only attend one out of the three slots in the calendar for the year 12 events.

For more information and to book please email languagessoutheast@soton.ac.uk