Supporting the new secondary curriculum for languages

The new secondary curriculum allows individual schools and subjects to create a curriculum which suits local needs and builds on existing expertise. This means that there are fewer requirements in subjects to cover specific content. It is worth checking with other subject leaders what plans they have for their subject, to look for possible cooperation for mutual benefit. The spur for this appears in the final line of all the national curriculum subjects’ programme of study, where nearly all subjects are encouraged to "make links between [SUBJECT] and work in other subjects and areas of the curriculum (and out-of-school activities)".

This section of the Toolkit looks at how languages can work more closely with other subjects, exploring three aspects:

Skills development
A multidisciplinary approach: slavery
Links to individual subjects

Content and Language Integrated Learning

The Languages Company has published a new CLIL Statement and Guidelines
Resources for CLIL can be found and shared on ALL's wiki, CLIL4teachers

Relevant case studies can be accessed here.