The MFL Curriculum Diet at CWLC

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The MFL Curriculum Diet at CWLC
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What do you want from a KS4 course? Prioritise 5
key requirements.. 1. Same degree of difficulty
as other subjects
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Leadership Management
Who does what?
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Christopher Whitehead Language College MFL Diet
Key Stage 3 French German 6 hours per fortnight
Key Stage 4 French German 5 hours per fortnight
Year 10/ 6 hours per fortnight Year 11
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German
French
Spanish
Spanish (set 1 2hrs)
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French SEN (6hrs) Sets 1,2,3 ( 2 hrs)
German
Key Stage 3 (6hrs per fortnight)
Early entry, Chinese
French
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Spanish ab initio OCR
Applied French Edexcel
French, German OCR
Year 10 5hrs per fortnight
BTEC Sport with Spanish
Asset Spanish ab initio
Asset Italian ab initio
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Spanish ab initio OCR
Applied French Edexcel
French, German OCR
Year 11 4 hrs per fortnight
BTEC Sport with Spanish
Asset Spanish ab initio
Asset French ab initio
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Edexcel Applied French Leisure Tourism
Miss Colman Two students from 11F3
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11F4
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Asset Languages with Miss Elliot/ Simon Brass
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• Flexible (5 windows each year)
• Focus on strong skills
• Rubrics in English
• 3 tiers (Breakthrough/Preliminary/Intermediate)
• Opportunity to re-sit
• Students see progress over 2 years

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Results Summer 2007

• 24 A-C in MFL (59 students out of 243)
• 53 A-C in school
• Continuing trend of underachievement
• Qualifications worse in MFL
• Negative view of languages
• Results Summer 2008
• 53 A-C in MFL (increase of 29)

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Needed

• Qualification that is criteria based
• No end of Year 11 exam chance to sit when
  ready/re-sit
• Option to focus on skills that will be useful
  (different languages)
• League table points

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The Brigshaw Model

• Marketed as Business Languages
• Targeted boys who would traditionally
  underachieve at GCSE
• After mocks targeted those not in line for a
  Grade C who we felt were underachieving

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• Tom
• CAT 84
• Asset Business Languages since Dec.
• Results Listening 9
• Reading 8
• Writing 8
• Speaking 8
• 50.5 points (equivalent to Grade B)
• (GCSE mock Grade E)

• Alicia
• CAT 110
• Asset Business Languages since Dec.
• Results Listening 9
• Reading 9
• Writing 8
• Speaking 7
• 49.75 points (equivalent to Grade B)
• (GCSE mock Grade U)

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