@botonessalgado
Head of MFL & Lead Practitioner at Princes Risborugh School. Advanced Skills Teacher. Microsoft Innovative Educator. Author. Blogger.CPD provider.National Teaching Awards Silver Winner. ⏬ https://mflcraft.blogspot.com #️⃣ #MFLBluesky
Just returned from the 2 day #LW25 conference & still buzzing.Loved presenting, learning & catching up with people. @all4languages.bsky.social @botonessalgado.bsky.social @cristahazell.bsky.social Looking forward to the next one. Best subject specific CPD! So much wisdom & free sharing #mflsky
What a wonderful 2 days at the Language World 2025! Thanks to two special colleagues @botonessalgado.bsky.social @fraubastowmfl.bsky.social but above all thank you @all-london.org.uk
Very inspired by @botonessalgado.bsky.social ! So many fantastic and refreshing ideas! #LW2025
Thank you for the shoutout!
SOS!! New post on the blog about how to maximise our Y11 students’ skills in the next three months before the GCSE exams. mflcraft.blogspot.com/2025/02/sos-... #mflbluesky
New Post on the blog on the use of questions in the MFL classroom to scaffold students production in a mixed ability classroom. Full of scripts of the actual questions and wording in a specific scenario mflcraft.blogspot.com/2025/02/skil... #mflbluesky
I have Patria :)
I have been playing with udio.com and created a couple of songs for Y7/8 to practise key vocab. This one is for Y8 on “where I live”. After creating the song I downloaded it as a mp3 file & created several listening tasks with it, including a karaoke to sing together. www.udio.com/songs/hUqwjh...
Reminder if you're near-ish to Oxford. We'd love to see you at this event face to face or online! I will be there with @robertwoore.bsky.social , @cateh.bsky.social and @botonessalgado.bsky.social For all your listening needs AND a free pass out of a Friday period 5 lesson! Win-win!
Thank you David Binn from Sanako for coming to @PrincesRisbSch to talk to Y9s on Monday. What an inspiring talk to promote languages at GCSE level.
Join me on 30th January for a FREE webinar hosted by Languagenut on developing listening skills at GCSE. You can join in the link below. ⬇️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/focusing-o...
Learn how to teach listening skills effectively at the Association for Language Learning Oxford Conference on 28 February.
Join in-person or online. Book your place ➡️ bit.ly/ALLOxford2025
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Have a wonderful Christmas break, everyone! This is my last blogpost, Part 4, on my thoughts/strategies, for the new GCSE in MFL. All about oral/written production, using too AI. mflcraft.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-.... #MFLbkuesky
The recording of the presentations by @botonessalgado.bsky.social and me at last week's STALL meeting are available to members on the @all4languages.bsky.social website:
www.all-languages.org.uk/secondary/
Thank you to ALL for hosting our STALL meeting this evening. Here’s my presentation view.genially.com/6750ab56e0a573…
Great ideas form @theniceman.bsky.social (Vincent Everett) on developing fluency at GCSE. Happening now!
You're missing @botonessalgado.bsky.social talking about getting pupils communicating on the topic and everything else follows. Then it transfers to other topics. If you signed up to STALL it's happening now!
Just a reindeer:
If you are signed up for @all4languages.bsky.social STALL tonight with me and @botonessalgado.bsky.social it's in an hour or so!
You are right! That’s another job going on too.
If you signed up for this week's STALL with me and @botonessalgado.bsky.social on spontaneous speaking and the new GCSE, it's tomorrow! Just a reindeer in case you forgot!
We are expanding so we are hiring! If you would like to work in a wonderful MFL department in a really rewarding school, come and work with us. We have a vacancy for a MFL teacher at PRINCES RISBOROUGH SCHOOL part of Insignis Academy Trust
www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
I have all my teaching and learning resources, they get updated as I modify them, for KS3, on my blog here 👇 mflcraft.blogspot.com/p/new-teachi... all for free. Include links to many interactive tasks and audio material using AI. #MFLBluesky
Come and join us next Thursday for our virtual meeting with @theniceman.bsky.social and myself when we will be talking about strategies to develop fluency for the new GCSE. #MFLBkuesky docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Learn how to teach listening skills effectively at the Association for Language Learning Oxford Conference on 28 February.
Join in-person or online. Book your place ➡️ bit.ly/ALLOxford2025
#MFLBluesky
#MFLBluesky : NEW “Host a culture and language celebration day” package for primary & secondary schools, in 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇸 - developed by Institut Français, Consejería de Educación en el Reino Unido and Goethe-Institut UK - available for FREE c/o #NCLE ncle-language-hubs.ucl.ac.uk/culture-days...
Tomorrow is the last day to sign up for the popular French Teachers' day held at the historic Institut français. London. Registration and links here: institut-francais.org.uk/french-teach... Please share! #MFLBluesky
Yes, I love Twee. It has created some nice funny texts for me, with very specific vocab which then I transfered to Google Forms with the assistance of Diffit. :)
STALL (Secondary Teachers at ALL)
Next meeting : Thurs 12 December 2024 on Zoom from 19h00
Spontaneous Speaking – planning strategies
* preparing the foundations for spontaneous speaking
* the Spontaneous element of the new GCSE Speaking test
Join us!!
Booking:
tinyurl.com/STALLDec24
I will share.
New post on the blog on ways to use AI to maximise retrieval practice in passive structured production. @joedale I hope it is useful! mflcraft.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-...