Monday, 2 September 2024
Write Away! news
Thursday, 8 August 2024
97 new resources today
I've just finished uploading 97 new resources to the website.
They are mostly for the new KS2 Spanish mixed age scheme: the scheme of work documents and the knowledge organisers are now complete, and there are the first resources for the new units (A1 and B2).
There are also some for:
Monday, 22 July 2024
Spanish Mixed Age scheme for KS2
If you're a regular user of Light Bulb Languages, you'll notice a few changes to the Primary pages, mainly because of the arrival of the Spanish Mixed Age scheme for Key Stage 2.
Most of it is usable, but you will notice that the documentation not there yet, as well as the knowledge organisers and resources for the only two new units (LKS2 A1 and B2). I will be writing and adding those over the course of the summer holiday so that it will be all systems go for September.Saturday, 17 February 2024
56 new resources today
Over the last couple of days I have uploaded 56 new resources:
- Olympics 2024 resources
- Primary Spanish, mainly for KS1
- Primary French, mainly for opinions of food
Monday, 30 October 2023
28 new resources today
I've just finished uploading 28 new resources to the website. They are mostly for KS1 French and Spanish, for the Pirates unit that I have been creating this term for my mixed Y1/2 class.
Saturday, 19 August 2023
75 new resources today!
I have just finished uploading 75 new resources to the website:
- Some resources for the 2023 Rugby World Cup (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian)
- A number of primary French resources, including some, for opinions of fruits and weather, which are the first for which I have used ChatGPT to try to speed up the process. Read more about my experiments with ChatGPT here.
- Some more primary Spanish resources, including the first for my forthcoming 2-year rolling scheme for Key Stage 1. I am going to be starting with Pirates to teach greetings, numbers and colours. These resources are also available in French.
- Some KS4 Spanish high-frequency verb revision resources
Wednesday, 9 August 2023
53 new resources today!
I've just finished uploading 53 new resources, things that I had been saving up over the last couple of terms. It's mostly for Primary French, with a bit also of Primary Spanish, French Display and Spanish Display.
If you want to locate new resources on a certain page easily, try CTRL+F on your computer and enter the date 08.08.23. You can also use "Find in page" on your mobile device using the same date.
Light Bulb Languages now has a total of 7929 resources - nearly 8000!
Friday, 24 February 2023
Write Away! issue 15
Issue 15 of Write Away! magazine is now available to read on Light Bulb Languages.
I hope that reading this issue or previous issues has inspired you to submit your own students' writing. As the editor, I aim to include as many pieces of work as possible. Here are some tips to help ensure that your students' work is among those selected for inclusion:
1. Please send the work as scanned .jpg or .png files. This is by far the easiest format to edit if necessary and to drop onto the page. Photographed work is not ideal. The resolution is often too low for effective enlargement, and it is very difficult to edit it to get a pure white background.
2. Make sure once the work is scanned that it's legible. Work written in faint pencil or light coloured pen like yellow can't be used. Sometimes colouring-in makes the writing hard to read. Work that has pencil obviously overwritten with pen will not be used. The background of the piece of work should be pure white all over (unless there are illustrations or colouring!)
5. The work needs to be as correct and as neat as possible. Write Away! is aspirational, a showcase and a celebration.
Thursday, 2 February 2023
71 new resources today
I've just uploaded 71 new resources, almost all for Primary French and Primary Spanish.
Amongst them are a set of Spicy Starters for Spanish and some numbers 1 to 10 practice for KS1 (also available in Spanish).
All the new resources will have "added 02.02.23" underneath them. If you're on your computer you can use CTRL+F and type in that date to find the new resources. You can also "Find in page" on your Android device. (Sorry I am not fruit-based - there may be a similar facility there.)
Sunday, 27 November 2022
30 new resources today
I've just uploaded 30 new resources to the site.
- A few World Cup 2022 resources for English, French, Spanish, German and Italian
- Some KS4 French grammar revision resources
- Some more primary Spanish resources, for example some Listen, Read, Write resources like this one
- Some more primary French resources