Welcome to Oxted School

Modern Languages Faculty

Family Learning Event

Teachers

Student

Tutors

Parents

Working together to ensure success!

We want your

child to be happy

and successful

Communication

is key

AIMS OF THE EVENING

1) To enjoy a Languages classroom experience with your son/daughter.

To experience how teachers present new language to the students.

To understand how language can be decoded using different techniques.

To work collaboratively with your child to solve Language problems.

2) To learn how to further support your child with their Language learning at home.

Homework

Revision

Other opportunities

3) To have the opportunity to ask any questions that you may have.

There is no such thing as a bad question!

THE PLAN

6.00pm - 6.10pm – Welcome, introductions and an invitation to ask questions

6.10pm – 6.50pm – ‘The Classroom Experience’ – enjoy a Language learning

experience!

6.50pm - 7.05pm – Ideas and Strategies to Support Language Learning at Home.

7.05pm - 7.15pm – Question and Answer session

ASK US ANYTHING!

What textbooks

could I buy to help

support my child?

What should I do

if I am stuck with

home work?

LESSON TIME!

• Group 1: French G10 – Ms Nicholls and Mrs Rowe

• Group 2: Spanish G9 – Mrs Ellis and Ms Wojcikiewicz

• Group 3: German F13 – Mr Skitt and Mr Rowe

WELCOME BACK!!

HOW CAN YOU HELP YOUR CHILD MORE AT HOME?

HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL WITH LANGUAGES HOMEWORK

How much home work should they get? How is it set? When is it set?

30 minutes per week (per language)

- Vocabulary Learning

- Written homework

- Active Learn

- Speaking homework

- Assessment Revision

SUPPORTING YOUR CHILD AT HOME IN LANGUAGES

• Encourage vocabulary revision little and often. Electronic resources like

www.pearsonactivelearn.com are good, but you can also…

• Stick up vocabulary around bedroom/house – the more they see it, the more it will stick

• Traffic Lights

• Word trees

• Encourage resilience with homework – learning a language won’t always be easy, and they

won’t always understand first time.

• Get them to apply the 3Cs – Cognition (Knowledge) / Cognates / Context

• Get them to refer back in their book – how does the homework refer back to the lesson they have

just/recently done?

• Get them to look at their Vocabulary sheet – available on FROG, your teacher will print if

requested.

• Get them to think what the answer might be – what is the homework/text about?

• Encourage students to engage with the culture of the country they are learning

about: music, film etc.,

• Show an interest yourself in what they are learning – if you don’t speak the

language yourself, get them to teach you!

• Please do not let them use Google Translate or other similar translation engines.

School recommended dictionaries online are:

• www.collinsdictionary.com

• www.wordreference.com

HOW WILL YOUR CHILD GET FEEDBACK?

WWW

EBI

(Next Steps)

Past

Present

Future

Opinion

Detail

QuestionThey should be using their EBI

to inform their focus for their

next piece of work or

assessment.

USEFUL WEBSITES

• www.pearsonactivelearn.com

• www.linguascope.com

• www.languagesonline.org.uk

• www.language-gym.com

• www.conjugemos.com

• www.naturalreaders.com – allows students to input a text in the language

and hear it spoken by a native speaker.

• http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/ - as above.

QUESTIONNAIRE

We really value your feedback!

We would also like to run more Family Learning

Events in the future and would really appreciate

any ideas or suggestions you may have.

What would you like to do at our next FLE

evening?