Case studies
Practical examples of how schools are implementing the new curriculum.
The case studies are structured around the 'three questions' of the new curriculum:
What do we want to achieve?
How do we organise learning?
How well are we achieving our aims?
We hope you will find them a source of ideas from which you can develop aspects of your own curriculum, adapting the ideas to suit the needs of your learners, your current practice, the expertise and enthusiasms of the languages team and whole school priorities.
NEW! Anne Prentis describes the amazing Swallow Day for year 7 pupils at Fakenham High School and College:
Swallow Day case study (Word, 118KB)
Swallow Day slides (Powerpoint, 2.74MB)
Video case studies
There are many videos available which illustrate different aspects of the new curriculum. See the video case studies page for more information and to view films made in four very different schools.
Written case studies
Our store of case studies have been written by Regional Subject Advisers and describe a wide range of initiatives that have helped schools to meet the requirements of the new curriculum. All are downloadable as Word documents, and for ease of access the most recent ones can also be read as web pages.
Most recent:
Using fables and stories in Key Stage 3
Overseas work experience in Year 10
The Heathy Bodies, Healthy Minds karate project
Other case studies
The case studies can be downloaded as Word documents, and are grouped into key themes of the new curriculum (some may appear in more than one):
Please revisit these pages, as more case studies will be added.