Language Driven Pedagogy

Upcoming MFL CPD with Rachel Hawkes

🎓Success in the new GCSE part 2: listening and reading
🗓️Monday 26th January 2026
⏰16:00 - 17:30
📍Online (via Zoom)
💰£50 (student discount available)

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Success in new GCSE part 2: listening and reading Effective strategies for teaching phonics, vocabulary, and grammar that support student progress and build confidence in both the listening and reading exams. 

Preparing students for GCSE? Check out Oak National Academy!
https://www.thenational.academy/teachers/key-stages/ks4/subjects

These resources feature “high-frequency, practical vocabulary” that supports “purposeful communication” (Alison Harrison, Head of MFL at Oak National Academy).
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/schools-gcse-languages-textbook-phrases-replaced-modern-vocabulary-55zht07m8

GCSE languages pupils to stop asking ‘où est la piscine?’ Stock textbook phrases are being replaced with modern vocabulary designed to help pupils speak more fluently as part of curriculum overhaul

📢 Upcoming MFL CPD📢
🎓Success in new GCSE part 1: speaking and writing
🗓️Monday 19th January 2026
⏰16:00-17:30
🏷️£50 (Great student discount available!)
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Success in new GCSE part 1: speaking and writing Effective strategies for teaching phonics, vocabulary, and grammar that support student progress and build confidence in both spoken and written communication.

📢 Upcoming MFL CPD University of York 📢

🎓Making sense of sentence building: clarity, confidence, creativity
🗓️Tuesday 25th November 2025
⏰16:00-17:30
🏷️£50 (Great student discount available!)

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Making sense of sentence building: clarity, confidence, creativity The course will give teachers ideas and examples of tasks to develop learners’ confidence in successfully manipulating language in order to create sentences that communicate clearly.

Join Rachel Hawkes on Tuesday 18 November! Rachel will share a 6-point plan to reinvigorate KS3 curricula with the new GCSE in mind. We'll explore how to downsize - personalise - organise - sound out - connect words - and communicate. :)

Refreshing KS3: building towards the new GCSE This session looks at building excellent foundations at Key Stage 3, ensuring the sounds of the language are embedded from the beginning.

📢 Upcoming MFL CPD University of York 📢

🎓Refreshing KS3: building towards the new GCSE with Rachel Hawkes

🗓️Tuesday 18th November
⏰16:00-17:30 (Online via Zoom)
🏷️£50 (great discount for students!)

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Refreshing KS3: building towards the new GCSE This session looks at building excellent foundations at Key Stage 3, ensuring the sounds of the language are embedded from the beginning.

✨Challenging texts to boost KS3 learners’ vocabulary, confidence & motivation✨

LDP text exploitation resources in French, German and Spanish include tasks which are engaging and meaningful, making understanding the text essential to completing the task.
https://ldpedagogy.york.ac.uk/resources/illustrative-example-resources/text-exploitation

💡 We've got free resources that cover the whole national curriculum, KS1 to KS4. Here's your daily pick!

Explore resources to help you plan a KS3 Spanish lesson about 'tener' in the 3rd person singular and plural: https://oaknat.uk/4nazgeL

📢 Upcoming MFL CPD University of York📢

🎓Making sense of sentence building: clarity, confidence, creativity
🗓️Tuesday 25th November 2025
⏰16:00-17:30 (Online via Zoom)
🏷️£50

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Making sense of sentence building: clarity, confidence, creativity The course will give teachers ideas and examples of tasks to develop learners’ confidence in successfully manipulating language in order to create sentences that communicate clearly.

🌍 Happy European Day of Languages! You know which way of teaching languages is better 😉

We've released resources to help you plan over 1000 lessons in French, German, and Spanish, KS2 to KS4, ready for you to use in your classroom. Meticulously planned and sequenced, so that pupils can build their own structures to communicate whatever it is they want to say 😎

Have a look! https://oaknat.uk/4mxJ5Cm

📢Oak National Academy's new French, German, and Spanish resources for KS3 and GCSE (aligned to both AQA and Edexcel) are now complete! 🥳

Produced in partnership with The Cam Academy Trust
and Rachel Hawkes they draw on LDP's research-informed principles.

Free, time-saving teacher resources | Oak National Academy Explore our free, time-saving teacher resources from Oak National Academy. Browse and download worksheets, quizzes and slides from KS1 to KS4.