Esme Salgado
@botonessalgado.bsky.social
Head of MFL & Lead Practitioner at Princes Risborugh School. Advanced Skills Teacher. Microsoft Innovative Educator. Author. Blogger.CPD provider.National Teaching Awards Silver Winner.
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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
March 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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
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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
March 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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
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Very inspired by @botonessalgado.bsky.social ! So many fantastic and refreshing ideas! #LW2025
March 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Very inspired by @botonessalgado.bsky.social ! So many fantastic and refreshing ideas! #LW2025
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
SOS: So after the Y11 mocks, what?
We just completed our second set of mock exams for Y11 before the February half-term and after analysing results, most students missed the n...
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February 20, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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
Skilful Questioning in the MFL mixed ability classroom: adaptive and responsive teaching
As I am recovering from an operation at home, I have been thinking a lot about adaptive and responsive teaching, what I call Spinning the ...
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February 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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 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...
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February 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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...
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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!
January 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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.
January 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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. ⬇️
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Focusing on listening skills for Secondary exams using Languagenut
Let's improve your listening skills for GCSE with Languagenut and guest speaker Esmeralda Salgado in this online event!
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January 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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...
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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
Join in-person or online. Book your place ➡️ bit.ly/ALLOxford2025
#MFLBluesky
December 3, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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
Join in-person or online. Book your place ➡️ bit.ly/ALLOxford2025
#MFLBluesky
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 NEW GCSE: It's all RETRIEVAL. PART 4 PRODUCTIVE structured Practice and developing FLUENCY
Merry Christmas to all! What a term this has been! I hope you can now relax with your loved ones and enjoy the festive season. As I have now...
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December 22, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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
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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/
www.all-languages.org.uk/secondary/
Secondary Zone - Association for Language Learning
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December 17, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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/
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…
https://view.genially.com/6750ab56e0a573…
December 12, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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!
December 12, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Great ideas form @theniceman.bsky.social (Vincent Everett) on developing fluency at GCSE. Happening now!
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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!
December 12, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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!
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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!
If you are signed up for @all4languages.bsky.social STALL tonight with me and @botonessalgado.bsky.social it's in an hour or so!
December 12, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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!
If you are signed up for @all4languages.bsky.social STALL tonight with me and @botonessalgado.bsky.social it's in an hour or so!
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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!
December 11, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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
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Teacher of Modern Foreign Languages, Buckinghamshire - Tes Jobs
Princes Risborough School, United Kingdom
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December 10, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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...
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
NEW Teaching & Learning Resources at KS3 based on the NEW 2024 GCSE
As you may know, I started a new teaching job in September as Head of MFL at Princes Risborough School. I has been a very exciting but also ...
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December 8, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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...
STALL Group (ALL) virtual meeting 12th December 7-8pm
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December 5, 2024 at 11:51 PM
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
Join in-person or online. Book your place ➡️ bit.ly/ALLOxford2025
#MFLBluesky
December 3, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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
Join in-person or online. Book your place ➡️ bit.ly/ALLOxford2025
#MFLBluesky
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#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...
November 28, 2024 at 7:43 AM
#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...
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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
French Teachers' Day - Institut Français · Royaume-Uni
Come and join us to celebrate the International French Teachers’ Day! Are you teaching French in primary or secondary school? The Institut français floor is yours! This year’s edition of the French Te...
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November 28, 2024 at 10:23 AM
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
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
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
STALL Group (ALL) virtual meeting 12th December 7-8pm
Subscription Form
tinyurl.com
November 30, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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
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
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-...
The NEW GCSE: It's all RETRIEVAL. PART 3 PASSIVE structured Practice using AI
This blopost Part 3 is all about Retrieval of vocabulary and structures in the Structured Practice of our learning journey. When I think of ...
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November 30, 2024 at 1:45 PM
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-...