Are you looking for some new ideas to make foreign language learning fun, engaging and relevant? Would you like to find new ways of embedding language policy in the classroom whilst developing your own foreign language speaking and teaching skills? Would you appreciate some help and guidance with planning your language lessons, ideas, and have someone with whom to share your reflections, successes, and failures? Then look no further! Frogston Primary School in Edinburgh in collaboration with The Open University are offering an eTwinning opportunity for all primary practitioners across the UK. It’s free, totally colleague/pupil-led, designed to enhance and practice your languages teaching, learning and assessment.

In this eTwinning initiative, teachers organise and run on-site and online activities with their students. This involves planning with colleagues from other schools around the UK using ready-made lessons and timeframes provided as a guide.

This is an ideal opportunity to meet teachers and educators who share a vision of engaging and impactful learning, using ICT in a meaningful way, and making the most of 21st-century skills. The project team provide lessons, resource ideas, guidance, and this online platform where eTwinners can communicate, create projects, share, and learn together at their own pace in line with their interests and the needs of their classes.

If you are interested in signing up for the next eTwinning project starting next year, please complete this short online form. We will contact you in early September to get the eTwinning process started.

By signing up, you will:

• Be put in contact with an eTwinning partner… a class of similar age/stage in a school in a different location from your own, who are learning the same language as you. 
• Be given a portfolio of 6 fully planned eTwinning lessons which are completely adaptable and flexible.
• Be given a secure digital space where you will find all related materials and in which you can plan with your colleagues.

If you have any questions, please contact: Scotland-Languages@open.ac.uk