The film festival for young audiences is virtual this year and schools from across Scotland can access the short film selection for free. The films will be available from the 17th October-1st November. To access the films online register your interest by emailing mike.tait@dca.org.uk.
Rhu Primary School celebrated the diversity of European countries and Languages for European Day of Languages. Take a look at the fantastic P6 video which showcases this diversity.
The European Day of Languages (EDL) is celebrated on 26 September each year.
If you’re looking for inspiration SCILT has compiled lots of ideas for primary, secondary and parents & families on the SCILT EDL page
Please send any photographs celebrating this event to gwen.mccrossan2@argyll-bute.gov.uk and I will share on this blog.
Early Level French Virtual classroom
to try out with your learners. The link can be shared with parents for home learning. First and Second level classrooms to follow.
Links to share with parents:
https://bit.ly/EarlyLevelFrenchClassAB
https://bit.ly/EarlyLevelFrenchNumbers
https://bit.ly/EarlyYearsColours
Professional learning sessions to help practitioners use digital tools to enhance language learning. The webinars cover a wide range of digital tools and are for primary and secondary practitioners.
Secondary – using digital tools in Glow to enhance and capture learning Monday 15th June, 11:00 – 12:00
Primary and BGE languages – using mobile devices to enhance and capture language learning. Monday 15th of June, 14:00 – 15:00
Primary and BGE languages – using G Suite to enhance and capture learning Wednesday 17th June, 11:00 – 12:00
To find out more and register for these events follow the link below: https://glowscotland.sharepoint.com/sites/AberdeenshireCouncil/northernalliance/SitePages/Northern-Alliance-CLPL-Offer.aspx
Innellan Primary School has been providing opportunities for family learning through an after-school French club. Gina Nitschke, a teacher at the school, runs this club with the assistance of her daughter, Lucy, who is studying French. This popular club is attended by pupils, siblings, parents and grand-parents. In fact, the club has proved so popular that it has sparked national interest and you can read more in an article published in the latest edition of the SCILT Newsletter
This is a lovely memory of a successful Gaelic Intergenerational learning event which was held at the beginning of March, at Tighnabruaich Primary School, in partnership with the Cowal Befrienders. The event brought together primary pupils, senior DGS pupils and older people who live in the Tighnabruaich 
area. Everyone enjoyed a meal together and learned the numbers to 10 in Gaelic. The afternoon culminated in a fun game of bingo in Gaelic! Thanks to everyone involved for making the event a big success and let’s hope that we can bring all the generations together again soon.
Pupils at St. Andrew’s Primary School using BSL
The links above show children at St. Andrew’s Primary School and Apple Tree Nursery developing their language skills through BSL. Liam Dunnachie, a local resident, has kindly volunteered to help develop BSL skills on the island.
During Languages Week Scotland parents came in to Hermitage Primary School to teach the children about their language and culture (Dutch, French, Russian, Lithuanian and German).
As part of Languages Week Scotland, the Pupils of P5-7 at Dalmally Primary School created a word cloud of their favourite words in different languages including French, Gaelic, Spanish, Croatian and Japanese.
During Languages Week Scotland use the hashtag #ScotlandLovesLanguages to share your favourite word in any language.
My favourite French word is pamplemousse
In Gaelic it is damhan-allaidh
I just love the sound of those words! What’s yours? Also find out your pupils’ favourite words and share with the nation.
During Languages week you could find out how many languages are spoken in your school community and celebrate this. For example, make a poster representing all the languages spoken by pupils and their families.
Why not use technology in languages- For example, try out Duolingo for schools in your class.
Learn a song in another language
Most importantly enjoy language learning during this special week and use the hashtag #ScotlandLovesLanguages to share what is happening in your school. Alternatively, send anything you would like to be shared to gwen.mccrossan2@argyll-bute.gov.uk
Do you think you could sing or rap in French? Do you have the skills to make a video clip for your song? If so, this competition is for you!
To find out more about this exciting competition for primary and secondary schools click HERE
The current Argyll & Bute primary school menu is available in French and Gaelic and has been sent to all schools. This is a useful resource to help embed your L2 into classroom routines. Click below for a copy of the menu.
Significant changes to Glow’s identity matching are coming on October 28th 2019, which will affect teachers transferring between local authorities. These changes are being made to ensure correct data handling by Glow in accordance with current legislation.
For full details, please see the information below from Education Scotland:
“When is this happening? The expected release date of this updated functionality is October 28th.
Who will be impacted? From the 28th October all teachers who move to a new position in a school in a different local authority will receive a new Glow account rather than continue to use their existing account. Their new account will have a different username and password. Access to old content will be removed along with their old account.
Non-teaching staff accounts are not currently matched as they move between local authorities and therefore they will see no change. Pupils will continue to be matched.
Teaching staff who currently have an account that is manually transferred between 2 schools, allowing them to use the same username and password to access more than one school, will no longer be able to do this if their accounts are in different local authorities. When the identity matching is removed, their username and password will allow them access to one school only, whichever school was their establishment on the 28th October.
What do you need to do? Please update the teachers in your local authority to ensure they are prepared if they are moving to a school in another local authority after the 28th of October.
If their access is still to their old school then they need to ensure that their RM Unify administrator manually transfers their account to be linked to their new school. If the work record in the old school is closed then this will happen automatically but if not it will require a manual transfer to be completed.
What about the future after the 28th October? Teachers who move between local authorities will need to remember that the content that they currently have access to via their existing Glow account will not be accessible once they start their new role in their new local authority.
We have posted a news item on Glow Connect: https://glowconnect.org.uk/2019/09/27/important-news-for-teachers-using-glow/
Glow account guidance has also been updated to reflect the changes: https://glowconnect.org.uk/glow-account-guidance/“
Jackie Mullen, one of the tutors for the national Gaelic Language in the Primary School (GLPS) course, will provide two taster sessions for beginners on Tuesday the 29th October and Tuesday the 5th November, from 4.05-5.30pm. These sessions will provide a fun introduction to simple Gaelic phrases that you can use with your learners in class. You can access the sessions from your classroom using Google Meet. If you are interested in attending please contact gwen.mccrossan2@argyll-bute.gov.uk
Click Here to find out about all the available French follow-on courses taking place, next term. These courses are suitable for those who consider themselves to be post beginners or have already completed the French beginners course.
All primary teachers and support staff are invited to attend free Get Creative primary music CPDs in September 2019 and January 2020. Continue reading Free Get Creative primary music CPDs
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