Upcoming CPD 

We are pleased to announce that Rachel Hawkes will be delivering four CPD sessions, beginning in the autumn term.  

LDP director, Rachel, is a renowned and influential speaker, a past President of the Association for Language Learning (ALL) and a former Head of Modern Languages, AST and SLE.  Co-author of several textbooks, Rachel holds both MEd and PhD from Cambridge University focusing on teacher and learner interaction in the secondary languages classroom.  Rachel is currently leading a team of resource developers in the creation of resources for French, German and Spanish from KS2-KS4 for Oak National Academy 

Our CPD sessions will provide practical strategies to help teachers to approach the new GCSE with confidence. 

The first two sessions will bring new ideas for teaching at Key Stage 3 to help learners of all abilities to build solid foundations of knowledge and will include suggested activities to promote creativity and confident communication.  

In January, the focus turns to preparing students for success in the new GCSE exams.  The sessions will provide effective strategies for teaching phonics, vocabulary, and grammar that support student progress and build confidence for the listening and reading exams. This includes building confidence understanding and extracting details from longer texts; using inferencing skills and tackling the dictation and the read aloud tasks.

Provisional dates for our sessions are as follows:

Tues 18th November - Refreshing KS3: building towards the new GCSE

Tues 25th November - Making sense of sentence building: clarity, confidence, creativity
Monday 12th January - Success in new GCSE part 1: speaking and writing

Monday 19th January - Success in new GCSE part 2: listening and reading

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