South East

This new cross-curricular project, funded by Routes into Languages South and delivered in your school or college, is a collaboration between the University of Southampton and a French native speaker dance champion and teacher.

The teacher will visit your school, normally accompanied by a University of Southampton student ambassador, and run a 90 minute workshop during which your students will learn the steps of dances they will have seen on 'Strictly'. At the same time they'll use the French language and French music. The workshop can be delivered as a dancing with partner activity or a line-dancing one.

'Dansez en français' is suitable for any year group but participants will need to have studied French for at least a year (a sheet with some useful expressions in French will be sent to participating schools before the workshop).

There is no charge for the session. However, schools/colleges will need to identify at least 20 participants (maximum group size is 30). A member of staff from participating schools/colleges will also need to be present to supervise the workshop.

'Danser en français' is initially available until the end of this school year.

For more information or to book a workshop, please email Zena Hilton.

Drawing on our large cohort of international students, this event aims to show the diversity within our community. Current undergraduate students run interactive stands highlighting language, tradition and cultural experiences from countries around the world.

Drawing on our large cohort of international students, this event aims to show the diversity within our community. Current undergraduate students run interactive stands higlighting language, tradition and cultural experiences from countries around the world.

Year 12 students are invited to a translation and interpreting taster workshop at the University of Portsmouth. The event is free and will run from 9.45am to 1pm.

The event will include a careers talk and separate workshops in either French, German or Spanish covering various aspects of translating and interpreting. There will also be a question and answer session at the end.

If you would like to bring your students to this event, please contact Joyce Schorah at the University of Portsmouth with the following details:

Name of school/college

Name of lead teacher plus contact email and telephone number

Names of participating students and preferred language

Any additional support required

Any dietary requirements

Whether minibus parking permits are required

Please ensure you register by Friday 6th June at the latest. Numbers for this event are limited, so early booking is advisable. Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Registrations will be confirmed after 6th June.

*** For schools/students who attend the teacher information session on 19th May***

Students interested in completing the Gold Award for Languages are invited to a free training workshop at the University of Brighton (Falmer campus). The day will run from 10.30am-2pm and will give participants a chance to discuss their ideas for each of the challenge strands.

To register your students you must first have attended the free teacher information session on Monday 19th May - also at the University of Brighton (see https://www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/south/events/3696 for more details). Registrations can be made by emailing Clare Forder at the University of Brighton.

Secondary MFL teachers are invited to the University of Brighton to find out more about the Gold Award for Languages – an exciting challenge event offered by Routes into Languages South. In working towards the Gold Award, students take part in three languages-related challenges: a personal challenge; a community challenge; a languages in the workplace challenge. Each of these strands is designed to be as flexible as possible and they also encourage students to think creatively and come up with their own challenge ideas. Those who sign up for the Gold Award will document their progress by completing the European Languages Portfolio. The session will explain how the Gold Award works and will provide examples of challenges already undertaken by students in the region. Schools who sign up to take part in the award will be given the opportunity to send their students to a subsequent training day at the university where they will be able to find out more and discuss their ideas.

This is a free twilight session and will run from 4.00-5.30pm. Please follow the registration link below to book a place or contact Clare Forder at the University of Brighton for more details.

The School of Languages and Area Studies (SLAS) at the University of Portsmouth invite Year 12 Spanish, French and German students to an interactive translation and interpreting workshop on April 1st.

Students will participate in two hour-long taster sessions in both translation and interpreting. By taking the lead in role-playing activities, students will gain hands-on experience of how translation and interpreting are taught at university, and how stimulating it can be to use your language skills in real world scenarios.

Academics and language tutors from the University of Portsmouth will lead the sessions, with the emphasis firmly being placed on putting language skills into action.  

For further information, please contact: begona.rodriguez@port.ac.uk or trish.nicolaides@port.ac.uk.

*** UPDATE *** This event has been postponed until further notice.

The University of Sussex Centre for Language Studies invites Year 9/10 students studying Modern Languages to an Advertising workshop day on campus on Wednesday 25th June 2014 from 10am to 2.30pm.

This activity aims to introduce students to the principles of advertising and marketing through the creative use of a modern language.

After an initial group welcome and introductory talk from an employer, students will work in target language workshops with University language tutors to analyse target language adverts before producing their own advert. The adverts may be created in different formats, such as poster, packaging, webpage, radio or film clip etc.

Following a bring-your-own picnic lunch - outside if the weather permits - students will work on the group presentation of their morning activity. These will then be displayed digitally during a plenary session in a lecture theatre before departure.

The finished adverts will be available for display on campus, in schools and on the Routes into Languages website.

Six languages are offered:

• French - non-beginners
• German - non-beginners
• Italian - beginners/non-beginners
• Spanish - non-beginners
• Arabic - beginners
• Chinese - beginners/non-beginners
• Japanese - beginners/non-beginners

Places, split across the different language groups, will initially be limited to 12 per school.

If you are interested in taking part in this event, please complete the registration form stating the number of places you require and the target language or languages your students will work in.

Please note that a cancellation policy applies to this event. A charge of £5 per place booked will be charged if there are any no-shows on the day or if places are not cancelled within two weeks of the event (i.e. by 11th June 2014).

Second in the series of Spanish CPD sessiosn hosted at the University of Brighton (Falmer campus) and presented by Laly Alonso-Nieto of the Consejeria de Educacion/Spanish Embassy Education Office.

Learn how to use the new posters and resources from the Spanish Embassy Education Office effectively in order to develop language learning and support literacy in the primary school. Designed for primary colleagues and secondary colleagues keen to support their primary feeder partners. A second chance to meet and work together? Teacher-trainees also welcome.

Costs tbc but will be kept to a minimum. Please email Daryl Bailey to reserve your place.

This CPD event is presented by Laly Alonso-Nieto from the Consejeria de Educacion/Spanish Embassy Education Office and hosted at the University of Brighton's Falmer campus. It will run from 4.00-5.30pm.

Designed for primary school teachers but also open to secondary school colleagues keen to support their primary feeder partners, this workshop will offer some basic Spanish language along with methodology and resources to help embed first steps in primary school Spanish for those with little or no prior knowledge of the language. Why not get in touch with your partner schools and come together?! Teacher-trainees also welcome.

Costs to be confirmed but will be kept to a minimum. Please email Daryl Bailey to reserve your place.