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Why you need to introduce French at KS1
Learning French at KS1 appears to have an impact on creativity and critical thinking skills and can be seen to boost learning in other subjects.
May 23, 2025 -
Introduce French in Key Stage 1 effectively
Well-prepared materials to help you teach French with confidence. Teaching French in Key Stage 1 offers numerous cognitive, cultural, and developmental benefits. Young children’s brains are highly adaptable, making it easier for…
December 12, 2024 -
A sense of achievement
What is the most effective way of getting KS1 children to enhance their enjoyment of the activity of creative writing?
June 19, 2024 -
Free PowerPoint of Olympic Sports in French
In four months the Summer Olympics will open in Paris. The inevitable media coverage means this will be ideal to link current events with the study of French.
March 29, 2024 -
Confident readers / good readers…
It is undeniably true that good readers are normally confident readers. While of course confident readers are invariably good readers. So which one does one seek to boost first?
September 27, 2023 -
Better French at KS1?
What is the best way of using the enthusiasm and lack of inhibition that exists within most KS1 children, when teaching French?
June 28, 2023 -
Time to play with the language
What is the most effective way of teaching parts of speech and punctuation?
Imagine taking each individual element of the KS2 SPaG agenda and building a creative activity with which all the children in the class could become involved. What would the result be?
April 18, 2023 -
What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications?
Happy New Year! I hope you had a good break and were able to recharge your batteries. Talking of recharging batteries, one night many years ago when I was putting my son…
January 5, 2023 -
I play therefore I learn
What is the single most effective way of teaching English grammar at Key Stage 2? Give children the chance to play with and utilise the grammar they have learned.
August 25, 2022 -
What’s new at Brilliant Publications? (3 February 2022)
Have a look at our new publication! It’s always wonderful to see a book for the first time. I’m really pleased with how French is Fun at Key Stage 1 turned out.
February 3, 2022
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