Rebecca Leek

Sep 27, 2024 | teachwire.net | Tallulah Holley |Rebecca Leek

SecondaryLanguages These simple, effective strategies will get even your shyest students speaking in the target language, right from the start… by Teachwire Encouraging students to speak in a foreign language depends on creating opportunity, motivation and confidence. Try these MFL speaking activities and ideas to get everyone in your class talking in your target language…Who speaks the most in your lessons: you or your students?

Sep 14, 2023 | teachwire.net | David Voisin |Shirley Lawes |Jennifer Wozniak-Rush |Rebecca Leek

PrimarySecondaryLanguages Celebrate linguistic diversity and promote language learning with these European Day of Languages ideas… by Teachwire DOWNLOAD A FREE RESOURCE! European Day of Languages ideas – Classroom activities SecondaryLanguages BBC analysis in 2019 showed that foreign language learning was at its lowest level in UK secondary schools since 2000.

Jul 28, 2023 | eastangliabylines.co.uk | Rebecca Leek

A school building in Mistley has had to close. Mistley Norman Church of England School is part of Vine Schools Trust, a multi-academy trust (MAT). Because of the school’s unsafe infrastructure, the current plan is for children to be transported by bus or car to a school in Ramsey, seven miles away. This story has made the education sector’s ‘nationals’. You can read about it here in Schools Week. The residents of Mistley and nearby Manningtree have good reason to be concerned about the problem.

May 1, 2023 | eastangliabylines.co.uk | Rebecca Leek

Ofsted is in the papers again. In fact, since the news about the suicide of the headteacher, Ruth Perry, hit the papers just over a month ago, Ofsted has been inhabiting the airwaves daily. And for all the wrong reasons. For an organisation whose strapline contains the words, ‘improving lives’, the dichotomy is jarring and, despite the best efforts of Ofsted itself playing the ‘sit tight and carry on’ game, the issue is not going away.

May 1, 2023 | eastangliabylines.co.uk | Rebecca Leek

Ofsted is in the papers again. In fact, since the news about the suicide of the headteacher, Ruth Perry, hit the papers just over a month ago, Ofsted has been inhabiting the airwaves daily. And for all the wrong reasons. For an organisation whose strapline contains the words, ‘improving lives’, the dichotomy is jarring and, despite the best efforts of Ofsted itself playing the ‘sit tight and carry on’ game, the issue is not going away.