mfl brochure
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Who we are and what we do Tile Hill Wood has been a Language College since 1998. We enjoy excellent accommoda on in the Open Language Centre with spe-cialist well equipped classrooms. We have two computer suites one of them fi ed with new PCs including webcams and Skype. The department consists of 15 teachers and 2 specialist Higher Level Teaching Assistants. French is taught from Year 7 to Year 9. A er four weeks of taster sessions, Year 7 students choose a second modern language from German, Spanish and Japanese. Students con nue with both languages to the end of KS3. We also offer a highly successful CLIL programme throughout Year 7; Science, PSHE, Music and Maths are taught through the medium of French. Students have to study at least one language to GCSE and many students choose to con nue with two or to start an Italian GCSE ab ini o. A wide range of community languages are offered through the Communi-ty Language Services. In the West Coventry Sixth Form, our joint sixth form with our partner boys’ school, Woodlands, A Levels are offered in all four languages.
A wide range of residen al experience is available; A Level work experience in Mu-nich and St. E enne. A German trip to the Cologne Christmas Market is taking place this November. Japanese students have the opportunity to take part in two exchanges in Year 10 and Year 12. A Spanish trip to Barcelona is taking place Easter 2013. The Year 8/9 and 11s have the opportunity to go to Normandy and to Paris every year.
We’re very proud of our na onal reputa on as a centre of excellence in language teaching and learning and would be delighted to welcome your daughter here!
HIGHLIGHTS
Young Languages Leaders Cer ficate awarded to 12 Year 9 students who developed their leadership skills through the teaching of Mod-ern Languages working with Year 7s
Top UK school and 3rd in the world in the 2011 Language Perfect World Championships
A-level conference with Warwick University – Skype presenta on by David Smith, Head of English Language at the European Commis-sion in Brussels about the value of languages and working for a mul-na onal organisa on
published resources as part of an ongoing Global Learning ini a ve at the DfiD and DfE funded Global Learning website h p://www. dec.org/secondary/ci es-people-and-change/city-languages
Year 8 Languages Forum produced an self-assessment wri ng por olio for every language to be trialled this year
Centre of Language Excellence in Coventry—frequently conduc ng examina ons for students from oth-er schools at GCSE and Alevel
Trip to Naples featuring Pizza baking, Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius
Sixth form Lake Garda trip with language tasters for all Year 12 students
Sixth form cinema visit to see “Cria Cuervos” at Warwick Arts Centre
Flamenco Club launch with Mrs Morris for Years 7 and 8
Year 7 worked with Year 5 students on “La selva tropical” crea ng online storybooks with www.storybird.com
weekly video conferencing with Park Hill and Ernesford Grange
Skype exchange with Year 9 and a primary school in Murcia, Spain
Year 11 going to Paris and Eurodisney!
Year 8 and 9 residen al to Normandy
Cinema trip to Warwick Arts Centre as part of Na onal Schools Film Week (Y11, 12, 13)
Leamington Spa based transla on company COMTEC ran a workshop with our Y10 girls
All Year 7s took part in our long-standing and na onally renowned CLIL programme, study-ing Maths, PSHE, Science or Music in French
Primary outreach work with Our Lady of the Assump on
two exchange programmes (Year 10 with Izumi High School and Year 12 with Mukogowa)
Japanese outreach work in primaries (Mount Nod, Park Hill) and Warwick University
Established partner of the Hiroshima teacher exchange project through Warwick University
Skype sessions with German and Austrian chari es on body image and sustainable devel-opment in Sixth form
Primary liaison with Limbrick Wood culmina ng in a German Christmas Tree compe on
Year 8/9 trip to the German Christmas Market in Birmingham
Na onal conference for A2 German “Handling the Cultural Topic”
Studying Languages...
means that you are a good communicator and independent worker means that you are an open‐minded person who has a thorough under-
standing of other cultures helps you become a ‘world ci zen’ in a global economy proves you have highly-developed reasoning and problem‐solving skills makes you more employable means you will earn 8‐14% more if you use a language in your job means you follow the recommenda on of the 20 leading UK universi-
es (Russell Group Universi es)
What others say about us: “Curricular provision is good and reflects the posi ve impact of the language specialist status. There is a tangible interna onal flavour to the school. … A ainment in the specialist modern languages subjects is above average.”
OFSTED, 2009
"Congratula ons to all - this sets the bar very high for the rest of us! Wow - what terrific work (…) ! Great stuff - most impressed." Valerie McIntyre, Head of MFL at Wells Blue School, Somerset
“The way the teachers do it here is really helpful. They do it like step by step and and if you don’t understand they go back and help you.”
Transcript from the KS4 student panel interviews