Chenderit video case study
Chenderit School
Subject content and language: moving achievement from good to outstanding
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Chenderit School is a mixed 11-18 comprehensive in rural Northamptonshire with Arts specialist status. As part of its goal to move from good to outstanding, the school has set up a new initiative in which all pupils in Year 7 learn ICT, Geography or PSHE through the medium of French or German, alongside their normal language lessons. The Deputy Head, Judith Woodfield, has been the driving force behind this development, inspired by the successful introduction of immersion language teaching (often called Content and Language Integrated Learning, or CLIL) at her previous school.
At the time of filming, the pupils have been at the school for just under one term, and are already coping confidently with their immersion lessons. The language teachers have worked closely with colleagues in the other subjects to design sequences of learning, which have clearly structured activities, use plenty of visuals and include support materials such as writing frames. The initiative is proving popular with pupils and parents, and pupils’ linguistic progress has been excellent, particularly in speaking. Seeing how well the pupils deal with language at a higher cognitive level is leading to a reassessment of the topics covered in normal language lessons.