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The Elf Advent calendar: Photos that can be used for any language to stimulate writing or speaking work.
Christmas tree and Christmas bell cards (scroll down to the bottom of the post)
Christmas Balls: craft activity
Advent colouring books for French and Spanish
Christmas lesson starters for French and Spanish
Christmas Challenge Cards for French and Spanish
I have just uploaded the first 26 new resources for this school year, all of them for KS1 and KS2 Spanish. They include the first workbooks for the Mixed Age KS2 scheme of work. So far I have completed LKS2 Cycle A and UKS2 Cycle C, which are the ones I am teaching this year. They are available on the website as PDFs, but can be purchased as editable PowerPoint documents in my Sellfy shop.
I have also uploaded the Google Gemini Storybook AI stories that I made over the summer, for example the one for this unit. Thanks to Joe Dale for telling me about this tool!
I've just finished uploading 28 new resources to the website.
They are mostly French audio files for the LiPS Listening Project, which I created using ttsmaker.com, an AI text-to-speech generator. Text-to-speech has certainly come on a long way since I first used it, and careful use of TTSMaker generates some realistic and useful results.
I've just finished uploading the first 28 new resources of 2025, all for primary Spanish, many for my new mixed-age primary Spanish scheme, which I am teaching in both my schools.
There are also some new Spanish Christmas resources, which I made for Key Stage 1 last term. (Thank you to Jane Birtwistle for the inspiration!)
Don't forget that the deadline for the next issues of Write Away! magazine is 27th March for both Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3. Secondary teachers - don't miss out!
Issue 22 of Write Away! magazine is now available to read: https://www.lightbulblanguages.co.uk/writeaway.htm
Take a look at the writing that primary children have been doing in their language lessons.
The deadline for the Easter term issue is Thursday 27th March 2025. All info is on the webpage.
EXCITING NEWS!
Next term we will also be bringing you a Key Stage 3 Special Edition. If you would like to submit some of your students' work from KS3, please go to the webpage to see what you need to do.
It will be great for the primary children to see the sorts of things they might be able to create in KS3!
I've just finished uploading 32 new resources to the website.
7 of them are for primary French - use today's date 22.11.24 to find the new ones.
The rest are for primary Spanish, mostly for Cycle B of the mixed-aged scheme, which I am teaching in KS1 and KS2 this year. As some of the units are duplicated from the original scheme, some of the resources appear there too. Again, use today's date 22.11.24 to find the new resources.
A lot of the primary resources, especially those for UKS2, will also suit lower KS3.
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:
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.