Brexit obvs

I must have learned a new language!

That's a nice demo. Need to adapt to french and Spanish now

Just listened to this. Lots of great issues discussed - really enjoyed it. Gonna pass onto our student teacher

Retrieval tasks, quizzes and hinge questions are useful tools, but when they dominate a lesson, they take time from the activities that actually build knowledge.

When no-one has a strong connection / understanding of languages, it just becomes a numbers game

No. The EBacc was the main motivation

It'll affect our school and I suspect quite a lot who created "pathways" that they put the majority on

Thanks. I've seen it and saved it!

We do edexcel. Doing some training on the speaking exam next week, so we can compare woes. The thing with rote-learning is that only the super-driven kids seem to like it. Most just seem overwhelmed and give up before trying. Or learn the first 3 questions on the list and then give up

This sounds like the Brain Gym of olde

I'm trying again with bluesky. I find the fb groups infuriating and I miss the back & forth of the old twitterati days. Some ppl use insta but I never got on with it. Can't help you with AQA though! We're doing Edexcel

I will have to check that one out!