Pupils at Windy Nook Primary School in Gateshead have been been having a wonderful time recently improving their French and ICT skills by creating podcasts and vodcasts for their truly fabulous blog Fab French.
A collaboration between staff at Windy Nook, in particular Mrs Marwood and their local CLC, the project is a wonderful example of how Web 2.0 tools can enhance language learning and engage pupils. The comments on the left hand side of the home page are a joy to read and irrefutable proof of this, showing the immediate impact of the site in just a few months.
To celebrate the official launch of Fab French, the school set up a French cafe for the day and invited Trevor Carter from Gateshead CLC to help pupils create podcast interviews with customers. As you will hear, the pupils do an impressive job and unsurprisingly, the feedback is very positive.
The responses from Mrs Wightman and Mrs Jewers from the MFL department at The Thomas Hepburn Community School where pupils will be going when they leave Windy Nook are very encouraging and as they've started blogging too thanks to Gateshead CLC, I'm sure they'll feel right at home when they do.
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