Newsletter November 2019 to January 2020

Calum Murray

4 years ago

A VERY BUSY FIRST TERM AT POWERLANGUAGE

PowerLanguage Schools users will have noticed quite a few changes and additions to our website recently!

Firstly, following user feedback, we are delighted to have made navigation easier by introducing “static” buttons in our Planners and Resources section. This update also means improved navigation for mobile phones and tablets users!

We are very excited to introduce our new “Professional Development” tab, which includes the first two in a series of Teaching Tip videos, presenting activities and techniques to enhance the learning and teaching of languages in the Primary School. We will keep adding more videos to this section so watch this space! This content is available to non-subscribers too from our powerlanguage.school website.

Finally, we are pleased to offer our users some exciting resources aimed at Transition and the first few years of Secondary School. Several topic-based Dossiers – developed in partnership with Falkirk Council in Scotland – are available in French and Spanish, presenting motivating materials with a CLIL approach. Click on the Resources tab to reveal this new content, free to full PL Schools subscribers.

PowerLanguage Annual Conference 2019 – watch the videos!

If you missed our Conference in September, why not head to our Youtube account and watch our wonderful presenters discuss Transition, Engaging the Wider Community, CLIL and Online Training, amongst other things! A special thank you to our Keynote Speaker, Jane Harvey, President of the English Association for Language Learning (ALL).

PowerLanguage Schools Updates

Planners and Associated Resources

The following Planners have recently been added to the website (availability depends on your subscription):

French PLS6 Block 2
Spanish PLS5 Block 4
German PLS5 Block 4

Coming soon: Spanish and German PLS6 Block 1

Responsive Resources

We are continuing the revamp of some of our existing Responsive Resources, with a range of new animations and illustrations, hyperlinks within our PowerPoints to facilitate navigation, as well as additional teachers notes, which present all resources within a dossier, with ideas for activities. We have also added Reading and Writing activities to cater for Second Level where appropriate.

Please check online in the next few weeks, as a number of dossiers are on your way, including an extensive new set of resources on a Christmas theme.