Join Swanswell and Amanda Millican from EMAS to discuss practical ways in which you can promote and support your students with their Home, Heritage, Community Language exams at GCSE and beyond.  

Join the team from the Trent and Tame Language Network to reflect on the progress you and your team are making with spontaneous speech.  During this virtual session, we’ll consider how we can use AI to support the students in our classroom to develop confidence and competence when speaking spontaneously.

Positioned after mock speaking exams, this session will give teachers ideas and sufficient time to introduce something tangible into lessons, homework or intervention plans to impact on the current year 11 cohort, taking their GCSE in summer 2026.

This special webinar is dedicated to the findings of our research project on the impact of different curriculum models. We will be looking into how specific school contexts choose to navigate the MFL curriculum and the impact each model has on student engagement, success and other logistical and financial impact on the school itself. We are delighted to welcome some guest speakers to this session who will be able to share more specific insight.

Familiarity with Phonics Webinar hosted by Specialist Teacher and Language Hub Deputy Lead, Georgina Jackson.

Session slide deck available here

Join us for the second part of our deep dive into phonics in the language classroom! This session will be held online, as part of our Webinar series.

Slide deck available here

Resources available here

This webinar is led by Grand Union Hub Lead, Emily Stallard and Tudor Grange Research School Director, Tom Pole who explore how we can use research from the Education Endowment Foundation to enhance MFL Provision.

This face-to-face teachmeet, focussed heavily on the GCSE Speaking exam. The session included:

• A thorough overview of marking and moderating against assessment criteria.
• Sharing of CPD on how to prepare for the speaking exam.
• Consideration into how we can develop genuine spontaneous speech, with examples and emerging success stories shared by schools across the region.

The resources can be downloaded via the links below:

GCSE speaking exam – delegate slides

Padlet – Grand Union Ideas Board

NF Higham Lane School – Year 11 French speaking trial exam revision lessons Foundation student version

NF Higham Lane School – Year 11 French speaking trial exam revision lessons Higher student version

NF Higham Lane School – French speaking trial exam revision lessons Higher – teacher version

NF Higham Lane School – Year 11 French speaking trial exam revision lessons Foundation – teacher version

Year NF Higham Lane School – 11 French speaking trial exam revision lessons Higher – teacher version

This session will be repeated:
18th November 2025.  Session led by the Trent and Tame Language Network at  Arthur Terry School, B74 4RZ between  13.00 – 16.00.

3rd December 2025.  Session led by Swanswell Language Network at Sydney Stringer Academy, CV1 5LY between 13:00-16:00

In this session we explored more specifically how to successfully embed these valuable skills into your MFL curriculum for more sustained practice and to work towards mastery.

The resources can be downloaded via the links below:

Embedding Phonics into the Curriculum_ Nov 2025 (2)